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Train Attention and Become a Cyborg Buddha!

Tue, Apr 1, 2008

Around the Web, Meditation, Technology

This is a great video, from the Google Talk series, with Philippe Goldin. Philippe is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute…

I found this video on the IEET Cyborg Buddha Project, which is run by James Hughes, Mike LaTorra, and George Dvorsky. This is an awesome site, with some fantastic folks who are running it. Here is a little info about the project in case you’re interested:

The three of us are launching the IEET Cyborg Buddha Project to combine our efforts and promote discussion of the impact that neuroscience and emerging neurotechnologies will have on happiness, spirituality, cognitive liberty, moral behavior and the exploration of meditational and ecstatic states of mind.

I’m drooling…

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Vince Horn - who has written 803 posts on Numinous Nonsense.

Vince Horn lives as a modern monk. He spends part of his year in silence, meditating, introspecting, and developing spiritually. The rest of the time he spends engaged in the world, where he produces and hosts the popular show, Buddhist Geeks, writes for various publications—including on his personal blog Numinous Nonsense—and enjoys living in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Emily. Read his full bio here.

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