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Neuroscience & Karma
Tremendous advances have been made in neuroscience in recent years and this new knowledge is used to make valuable statements about puzzling aspects of human behavior. Not only can it give new views of the problems raised by our habits, our work and play and our emotions and passions but also help with the study of philosophy (epistemology in particular), aesthetic appreciation, ethics and religion. 3. Brain Contains Knowledge
The basic fact about brain is that it contains knowledge and information written in its own language. Information in a living system is a feature of the arrangement of its parts which constitute a 'code' or language. To understand the language of the brain, we must learn to interpret the elements characters of the script in which it is written. Neuroscience is beginning to do this and in this book, we hope to show how the organization of the brain can be considered as the written script of the programs of our lives. So, the most important feature of the brain is not the material that it is made of but the information that it carries.
The neuroscience can translate the language of the brain into ordinary language and such knowledge of the brain enables us to expand our understanding of fundamental problems such as: why do people indulge in violence though they know that it is wrong to do so? Thus, we hope to show that study of the brain reveals patterns of information and action whose significance we can still perceive only dimly.
