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    Challenges→The claim of Buddhism's compatibility with science has been an enduring feature of the debate, despite shifts in what both concepts mean

    Buddhist doctrines such as rebirth, karma as cosmic moral causation, and the existence of non-physical mental continuants make testable empirical predictions that conflict with mainstream neuroscience.

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    Key Terms

    Buddhist doctrines(as used in religious philosophy)
    A set of core teachings and beliefs that form the foundation of Buddhism, a major world religion founded around the 5th century BCE.
    Cosmic moral causation(as used in Buddhist philosophy)
    The concept that the universe itself enforces morality automatically—that wrongdoing naturally produces suffering and rightdoing naturally produces happiness, like a built-in system of justice.
    Neuroscience(as the field being discussed)
    The scientific study of how the brain and nervous system work, including the physical structures and chemical processes involved in thinking and behavior.
    Non-physical mental continuants(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Things that carry thoughts, consciousness, or the mind from one moment to the next (or one lifetime to the next) without being made of physical matter like the brain.

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    Testable empirical predictions(as used in philosophy of science)
    Claims about how the world works that scientists can actually check and measure through observation and experiments.
    karma(Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy)
    Collective mental actions of all beings that produce and shape the experienced world.
    rebirth(Buddhist eschatology)
    The doctrine that unenlightened persons are reborn as sentient beings of some sort after death

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