--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Hodge" <s.hodge@...> wrote:

>
>Robert > I think scientists can never understand nama, rupa

(materiality) is

> very
> > different from nama and so any ideas such as neurons are not

helpful when

> trying to
> > understand mentality.

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> Well, "never" is a very lomg time :) As you will be aware, there

are a

> variety of models for understanding the mind / mentality and its
> relationship to the CNS. For me, the theory that fits best with

Buddhism is

> the idea that the mind is an emergent phenomenon from the brain.

That is to

> say, it arises from the central and peripheral neurological

structures but

> is not identical to them.

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Dear Stephen,
You will have to point me to which texts suggest this. Is it
mahayana as I am fairly certain this is not a Theravada idea?
Robertk