Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience

by Wolf Singer and Matthieu Ricard

Book Overview

Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036940
• ISBN13: 9780262036948
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher