zerotime wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:22 am
When you are checking your own contradiction then you use the accusation of condescend that yourself chose to start writing in this thread:
"Frankly this is about as compelling as the story of Eve being created from Adam’s rib"
...
"So basically the scriptures say that Buddha accessed such memories but there is no theoretical model as to how this is possible, right?
Thanks!"
Then it was all a misunderstanding.
Re. the first quote, I was reacting to an article masquerading as science, using pseudo-scientific arguments to advance esoteric beliefs that have nothing to do with science.
Re. the second one, there was zero condescension, as it was a simple factual question without any judgment in it. In fact it summarizes the whole topic of this thread. I’m sorry if you misinterpreted it. Others even replied ’yes’ to this question, because they understood what I was asking.
zerotime wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:22 am
note that you don't know where is the screen. Although obviously you have realized this fact before this message.
I actually already discussed this with Ceisiwr, who mentionned the hard problem of consciousness just a few posts ago, maybe you have missed it.
Again I don’t dispute the hard problem, I just don’t see its relevance here, since *how* one remembers past events is just one of the ’easy problems’ and what has been known for decades about the neural correlates of memory is enough to build a pretty solid theory about how it happens. And that’s the only thing I was interested in, i.e. does Buddhism offer an alternative account of this specific easy problem (see the question I asked, which you understood as an expression of disdain...) - not the hard problem of why one experiences whatever is experienced (the screen you can’t locate because as of today no one can, which is why I compared it to your mind’s eye, but apparently you missed that post too). I suggest you re-read the original questions I asked on the first page of this thread. Others like Radix and Alex123 got me just fine and have provided relevant answers to my specific questions.