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.
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. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. 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. Matthieu Ricard.Ĭonverging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics. Beyond the Self - Matthieu Ricard - Book Store in Yerevan.
