Looking For Spinoza, Pt Ii

[sabaijai]

This is a follow-up to a thread Drummer initiated quite a while ago, entitled "Looking for Spinoza", relating Buddhism to neurophsiology.

I found this article called "Microgenesis and Buddhism: The Concept of Momentariness" online. It's pretty advanced stuff, best enjoyed by those already acquainted with paticca-samupadda, the Buddha's theory of dependent co-origination.

"Microgenesis is a process model of the mind/brain state the has developed out of the study of clinical symptoms that arise with damage to the brain. The microgenetic theory of the mental state provides an account of the neural basis of duration,the present moment,and the replacement of one mental state by the next. The resemblance of this theory to the concepts of momentariness and the replication of points in Buddhist writings is explored here"

Momentariness & Neurology

And for a simple introduction to paticca-samupadda:

dependent co-origination