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
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. 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 all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep
their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human
life.
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