Triune Mind, Triune Brain
Map of the Mind through the Eyes of Buddhianscience and Westernscience
Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Triune Mind, Triune Brain
Map of the Mind through the Eyes of Buddhianscience and Westernscience
Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri
About This Book
This is an interdisciplinary study of mind and body, embryonic level included, relating Buddhianscience to Westernscience. It draws upon Sutta and Abhidhamma, and Neuroscience, Anthropology, Linguistics and Embryology. The three terms used by the Buddha for 'mind' are analyzed against the 17 mindmoments making up a Stream of Consciousness, labeling them 'Triune Mind' collectively. Analysis extended to a neuron and the ear, it is paralleled with 'Triune Brain', as proposed by US Evolutionary Biologist, Paul MacLean. Reinterpreted under the Buddha's phylogenetic concept of satt? 'sentient beings', covering both humans and animals, Citta, Viññ??a and Mano are shown to find a home in the rebranded Proto-, Paleo- and Neo-sentient brains. Evolution in the West is a process of species change. Showing it as the cumulative outcome of changes at the individual (phenotype) level within a given species (genotype), Citta is identified as the mind that carries the 'folkloric memories' life to life, this in the form of peptides as in neuronal communication, through mitochondrial-DNA. The study ends in an ironic twist– that there is indeed nothing called 'brain' or 'mind', both being processes.