Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan

The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains that makes some of us upend tradition and most of us follow the herd?

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Recorded at the Rubin Museum of Art on March 7, 2010. Total running time: 82 minutes.