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Thank you very much for your answers!
Due to the answers, the post has been updated and something added.
Modern *brain-centered evolutionary reductionism* says that:
Ego, personality and "free will" are just illusions, "optical effects".
Culture: music, poetry etc; some romantic, delicate feelings are just by-products of evolution.
Evolution has no "meaning", sense, "goal" etc.
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Instead of evolution, we can consider any process or explanation.
The main thing is that all the concepts that were considered philosophical or important, special - received the simplest explanations.
Good and evil, space-time, philosophy and morality - *all have no essential special nature.*
I see a parallel here with Buddhism.
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Space-time, causality, all math and science have roots only and exactly inside the brain.
The existence of an "external objective world" is only a hypothesis, a model.
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No one claims that *certainly there is no outward world*.
*Nor* is it necessarily there. It is a model, a framework.
Here I see no contradiction with @ChrisW answer
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Aside from the idea of reincarnation, is there any contradiction with Buddhism in these statements?
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