Robert Wright's 2017 argument — that core Buddhist claims about the self and suffering are validated by evolutionary psychology and cognitive science, specifically that the self is an illusion constructed by competing modules, and that mindfulness meditation provides access to this truth.
Creates the evolutionary psychology validation of Buddhism — Why Buddhism Is True argues that the Buddhist concept of anatta (no-self), the diagnosis that craving causes suffering, and the prescription of mindfulness align with what evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience have independently discovered about human cognition.
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