Well, we've seen that that can't be true.

For that we have to ask, what is the nature of mind?

What is Buddhism but 2,500 years of empirical observation as to the nature of mind?

It's about collecting empirical evidence.

Ideally you would love to do all this non invasively.

How?

Here, I interviewed people who were residents of formerly communist countries, who had all faced the challenge of transitioning to a more democratic and capitalistic society.

And the consensus was it really worked.

Here's how it went.

We are going to hear about drugs.

Give up your empiricism, Professor. Miracles are beyond empiricism.

Bodily functionality and morphology and affective self control.

Here are the results of what I just showed you.

I love that phrase.

Who has ever got a goal or desire and thought, is this all there is?

but you could hurt not only yourself, but the school, the girls, all of us.

Make a decision and give me some blood.

Yes from a managerial standpoint.

Exp.

Until we can prove empirically that we were the cause,

His view of life is based on his long experience.

I'm experiencing physical pain.

It was logical to cultivate multiple options.

I can't do much with artillery I can be of more use as a foot soldier.

(Laughter)

We're going to hear about a biochemical imbalance or we're going to hear about drugs or we're going to hear about some very simplistic notion that will take our subjective experience and turn it into molecules, or maybe into some sort of very flat, unidimensional understanding of what it is to have depression or schizophrenia.

What I really think we gain from this is students getting intuition and experience in far greater quantities than they've ever got before.

His writing is very subjective.

I heard over and over again, Wow, that was worth it.

lysogenic cycle.

With each of these disruptions, it changes the amount of social interaction.

(Laughter)

My experience was so mysterious

What you might call an experiential overlap.

And the bottom line of this part of my talk is this

Ziva, did you kill Houdini?

Have you ever been to a ballet?

logical, universal, factual, scientific.

There's virtually no empirical proof.

We feel angry, frustrated, vindictive, justified.

I've never done this before.

Mileage.

Anyone here been in the army?

I know people.

There is no empirical evidence...