While I believe all the great religious traditions of the world have major contributions to make in harnessing the scientific and spiritual imagination to create a life-enhancing future for our world, I shall focus especially on the potential contributions of Buddhism simply because that is my field of expertise. The areas in which I think…
The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication and Explanation, by John Horgan The Free Press, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-684-85075-3; $25.00; 326 pages Contents Introduction I-Witnessing 1. Neuroscience’s Explanatory Gap 2. Why Freud Isn’t Dead 3. Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis 4. Prozac and Other Placebos 5. Gene-Whiz Science 6. Darwin…
The book provides the practicing neuroscientist ample food for thought, but it is also accessible to the educated layperson. The neurobiology is only moderately detailed, and the writing style is lucid and elegant.