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All the ideas for 'reports', 'The Idea of the Brain' and 'Buddhacarita'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

23216

The brain is not passive, and merely processing inputs; it is active, and intervenes in the world [Cobb]

23226

There is a single mouse neuron which has 862 inputs and 626 outputs [Cobb]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]