Re: R/E DELEUZE + BUDDHI^?^?^?^?^? <mcurrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Michael:

I think a fine place to start is actually a book about cognitive science,
Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch, called *The Embodied Mind*
MIT 1991 or 2, which looks at the emergent properties paradigm of cognitive
science *and* mahayana buddhist epistemology, as they might inform each other.
Notice the press is MIT and not Shambalah. D&G are profoundly influenced
by the emergence paradigm, and a lot of their categories become much more
acccessible, if understood as embodiments of top-down, bottom up processes
brain/AI functions etc, with the given of No Mind as default status, every
thing else having to do with identity being fictive constructs.

Hope that helps......mer


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