There Is No Ghost

I admit it, I have a huge intellectual crush on Jonah Lehrer. Editor of Seed Magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, he has a great response to Brooks' piece in NYT. Here's a very Buddhist quote from his book:

If neuroscience knows anything, it is that there is no ghost in the machine: there is only the vibration of the machinery. Your head contains 100 billion electrical cells, but not one of them is you or knows you or cares about you. In fact, you don't even exist. The brain is nothing but an infinite regress of matter, reducible to the callous laws of physics.