Dan Rather Reports - Mind Science (Part 2 of 6)

Scientists, with the help of Buddhist monks are unlocking mysteries of the brain. An interesting reports about brain plasticity and the effect of meditation on brain and emotions.
Apr 8, 2008.

Original video from : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4846933362481486227

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• mind
• science
• meditation
• brain
• emotion
• affective
• neuroscience
• plasticity
• neurogenesis
• aging
• memory
• neuroplasticity

[felixmax333]

A good start would be to be mindful in everyday experience- be aware of what you're giving your attention to. If you don't like what you're experiencing, focus on your breathing, acknowledge the negativity and let the negative emotion pass through you. It doesn't require one to sit in a temple for hours on end...

[Isamright33]

no one knows what mind is. There is no physical or philosophical explanaition for it and it perplexes atheists because there is no biological basis for it.

[Jonmad17]

@spectralmusic The analogy is false. Hardware and software, as it's called, aren't independent. Software NEEDS hardware the same way the "mind" needs a brain.

[mettacintena]

Good job!

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

watch youtube vid:

TEDxBlue - Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. - 10/18/09

[icouce]

How does this work relate to Pinker's, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature? The brain is plastic, but NOT infinitely so. Example: learning cannot happen without innate mechanisms; flexible enough for the myriad modes of human learning, but not so flexible that the same evidence, would lead everyone to different conclusions.

Limitations are as important as possibility, lest we think we can be endlessly engineered at to our liking - such programs have not ended well in the past.

[thunderinthesky]

The advanced Buddhist study compiled in the Buddhist "Abidhamma" accounts for some 121 distinct types of consciousnesses related to the 6 sense bases of the human mind.

[spectralmusic]

@alexmaxjohn I know, hence the question "?" mark. (I was questioning the analogy presented in the video).