[Buddha-l] the advent of the meditation machine?

[Richard Hayes]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:28, curt wrote:

> Are you saying that baseball bats come from one of these organs, too? Or
> just the referents of religious experiences?

Religious experience, unlike baseball bats, strikes me as a completely 
personal and internal phenomenon with no external components. Given that 
religion is internal, I assume its origin is the human mind and nothing more. 
And the human mind, I am convinced, is an effect entirely of chemical and 
mechanical processes within the human body and must be located therein. So I 
think is not entirely idiotic to ask where in the body the religious impulse 
is. I just don't think it matters very much what the answer to the question 
is. Or, to put it another way, nothing that I care about personally would in 
any way be affected by the answer to that question. I don't have a pony in 
that particular race.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes