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A personal account of how Joseph Goguen and I came to work together and of the influence that Tibetan Buddhism had on us and on our collaboration. A brief discussion of some neurological experiments using meditators and how Goguen’s work connects Buddhism, computing, and cognition.
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Burstall, R. (2006). My Friend Joseph Goguen. In: Futatsugi, K., Jouannaud, JP., Meseguer, J. (eds) Algebra, Meaning, and Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4060. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780274_2
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