Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience

by Wolf Singer and Matthieu Ricard

Book Overview

A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging--and diverging--views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious, free will and perception, and more.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262536145
• ISBN13: 9780262536141
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher