Dr. Alok Kanojia
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And the really fascinating thing, my most instinctive response when people would tell me how it is, is no, it's not.
So in the East, they have a completely different conception of mind.
And here's the big problem with the Western conception of mind.
You're a scientist, right?
How do you learn about something, Andrew?
No, no.
So let me ask you this.
How do you study the mind?
I do not know.
So here's what's really fascinating.
Do we have any scientific evidence of the existence of thought?
We could define thoughts as some pattern of network activity.
What I mean is if we literally look at it, we have no instrument that can detect a thought.
That's right.
Right?
So we have no proof.
We cannot measure a thought.
Like it is like literally impossible.
We can measure blood flow to the brain.
We can measure electrical activity in the brain.