# Brain and scientific beliefs

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**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/brain-and-scientific-beliefs/2090 "2025-10-06T17:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/user_avatar/classicaltheravada.org/robertk/32/1498_2.png) [@RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/u/RobertK)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/brain-and-scientific-beliefs/2090/3 "2025-10-07T06:36:41Z")

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> [@Heart base - or brain](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/heart-base-or-brain/44/63):
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> > [@Heart base - or brain](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/heart-base-or-brain/44/63):
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> > > (1) Uninstructed (1) p. 595 Samyutta Nikaya Vol 1 (translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi) "  
> > > note 157: Spk: one citta is  
> > > not able to endure for a whole day or a whole night. Even in the  
> > > time of a fingersnap many hundred thousand kotis of cittas arise and  
> > > cease (1 koti=10 million).
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> I do not see how the above is relevant. Can you, please, explain what it means relevant for our discussion? Of course mental states change, rapidly.

Because the cittas arise and pass away so quickly. The experience of hardness or heat in the area of the foot arises there and ceases instantly, but the other cittas in the process arise at the hadaya vatthu.

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