I found this article in seed magazine and think that it pertains to Rushdie's book. The basic premise is that the writer of the article cannot reconcile how modern the Buddhist view of the brain is and how it matches the neuroscience of today. I think that his knowledge of Buddhism is limited but the article definitely made me think of Rushdie's fragmented characters and how they are fragments loving fragments. If the Lacan and Turing measure intelligence by a sort of mirror test than our measurement of intelligence is the ability to perceive an illusory persona and even create that persona (and that sounds like psychosis to me).
Buddhism and the brain
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