Beyond the Self - (Mit Press) by Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.</b><p>Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist--close friends, continuing an ongoing dialogue--offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity. </p><p>Ricard and Singer's wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism's wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience's abundance of experimental results. They discuss, among many other things, the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, but psychotherapy depends on it); the distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience's precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist <i>all-discriminating </i>wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, trained as a molecular biologist before moving to Nepal to study Buddhism. He is the author of <i>The Monk and the Philosopher </i>(with his father, Jean-François Revel);<i>The Quantum and the Lotus</i> (with Trinh Thuan); <i>Happiness</i>; <i>The Art of Meditation</i>; <i>Altruism: The Power of Compassion;</i> <i>A Plea for the Animals</i>; and <i>Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience </i>(with Wolf Singer).<i> </i>He has published several books of photography, including <i>Motionless Journey </i>and <i>Tibet: An Inner Journey</i>, and is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. <p/>Wolf Singer is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in cooperation with the Max Planck Society, where he is also Senior Research Fellow. He is the coauthor of <i>Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience</i> (MIT Press).
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