The aesthetics of neural Buddhism

My own critical response to the “neural Buddhism” phenomenon is that
theories of everything, despite their beauty, can be dangerous things
because their abstractions must sweep away much of what concerns us. I
do not mind them, actually, if many theories of different kinds can be
allowed, but such pluralism does not seem to be commonly accepted in our
current scientific culture. The drive for the totalizing narrative is
very strong, and maybe someday, cognitive science may even be able to
explain with satisfying detail the neural structures and processes that
create this drive.