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Buddhism and Modern Psychology
Coursera
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A Princeton-taught Coursera course that examines Buddhist ideas about the mind alongside modern psychology and cognitive science, including experiments on perception and how evolved survival mechanisms shape what we see.
Commenters describe it as mind-blowing and point to its experiments on perception, such as the visual blind spot demonstrations.
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Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Princeton. This course was just mind-blowing for me. It talks a lot about how our evolutionary survival mechanisms prevent us from seeing the world clearly. If anyone has taken similar courses would love to hear.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation
You'll notice we're all in lala land here. You can have a meaningful conversation at a speculative level.
But the nouns are analogies for regular old predictors and detail fillers we know exist. For examples, point to your visual blind spot quick. Or go watch your eyes move with a mirror. Or do any of the really neat experiments in the Coursera course "Buddhism and modern psychology".
I'm extrapolating, and yeah, landing right in the middle of "who knows".