Martha Nussbaum on 21st Century Enlightenment, empathy and the humanities

Ramachandran: The mirron neurons link the sciences and the humanities

There is no real distinction between your consciousness and someone else’s consciousness: “There is no real independent self (…) You are quite literally connected by your neurons (…) This is not mambo-jumbo philosophy: it emerges from our understanding of basic neuroscience” (Ramachandran, 2009)

Secular ethics: a conversation with the Dalai Lama, Antonio Damasio, Jonathan Haidt...

The Dalai Lama, Antonio Damasio, Jonathan Haidt.. at University of Southern California (2011)

Buddhist ethics and the brain: Matthieu Ricard