Did Hume encounter Buddhism? | Robert Wright & Alison Gopnik [The Wright Show]

00:35 How a personal crisis brought Alison back to David Hume 06:05 Hume’s (likely) chance encounter with Buddhism 23:00 Lessons from 23-year-old Hume’s nervous breakdown 31:59 Which ideas might Hume have borrowed from Buddhism? 41:19 How meditation disrupts the ‘autopilot’ of adulthood 52:35 Is introspection as valuable as neuroscience? Recorded on August 22, 2017 Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/39068 Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4 Follow us on Twitter:   / meaninglifetv   Like us on Facebook:   / meaningoflife.tv