Stephen Hodge wrote:

> > How many cittas or what fraction of a citta can one firing neuron
> > produce, according to neurophysiology?
>
> I'm not sure because neurphysiology does not talk about cittas / cetasiks
> though one could say that they are mental events to get a handle on the
> matter.

Do you think there ever was a neurophysiologist who has seen a mental event
through the lens of a microscope?

Did the Buddha have to study neurophysiology to find the way to the end of all
suffering?

The idea of the mind as an emergent phenomenon of physical processes is
obviously an analogy drawn from the study of emergent phenomena in physical
sciences. Analogies, however, are not sufficient as conclusive proof of any
matter. For neurophysiologists to be able to make any valid statement about
mental phenomena, the latter would have to be within reach of their
methodology, which I don't think is the case.

Lothar