Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in
which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational
infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from
meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it
demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs
only in our heads and consists in coherent differentiation—the
creative elaboration of relations among sensed and sensing
presences, and more fundamentally between matter and what matters.
Hershock argues that without consciousness there would only be
either unordered sameness or nothing at all. Evolution is
consciousness mattering. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of
subjective awareness and culture, the possibility of machine
consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and
the potentials of intentionally altered states of consciousness,
Hershock invites us to consider how freely, wisely, and
compassionately consciousness matters.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Peter D. Hershock
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-41121-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-41121-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781350411210 |
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