Is there a hidden assumption in the Buddhist abhidhamma understanding of the mind? I'll look at what I'll term the "doctrine of seriality", that the mind operates sequentially. What does this mean, and why might it be a problem?

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✅ Video mentioned:
Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness --    • Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of M...  

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/sn35.247/en/...
https://suttacentral.net/mn74/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/dn15/en/sujato

✅ Other resources recommended:
Thanks to CurlyCarl at Sutta Central for pointing out the relevance of the sutta on the six animals: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/...

Neural networks are inherently parallel algorithms: https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeple...
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/erober...

Keyboard scanning: https://next.wooting.io/post/what-inf...

Split-brain: https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a

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00:00 Intro
01:04 Related sutta references
05:07 Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Theravāda abhidhamma
06:38 Dealing with counterexamples
10:02 Neuroscience examples
13:59 Counting the breaths
15:43 Non-self and the dis-integration of consciousness

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