Alan Wallace has reacted to my essay on Buddhist meditation and cognitive sciences. We exchanged a few emails, archived here. As the essay noted: "To Wallace’s frustration, science dismisses 'nonphysical influences in organic evolution or in human affairs,' despite having 'no technology that can detect the presence or absence of any kind of consciousness, for scientists do not even know what exactly is to be measured.' His critique is sound but he makes few suggestions (apart from endorsing meditation)..."