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Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 2
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This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which
has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between
neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness
something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just
one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be
discriminated? Are so called “higher states of consciousness”
that some people report during meditation pointing towards a new
understanding of consciousness? Meditation research is a new
discipline that shows new inroads into the study of consciousness.
If a meditative practice changes brain structure itself this is
direct proof of the causal influence of consciousness onto its
substrate. If different states of consciousness can be linked with
properties and states of the brain this can be used to study
consciousness more directly. If the sense of self is modifiable
through meditative techniques and this can be objectively shown
through neuro-imaging, this has profound implications for our
understanding of who we are. Can consciousness, in deep states of
meditative absorption, actually access some aspect of reality which
we normally don't? Meditation research can potentially foster us
with a new access to the phenomenological method in general. This
has even been branded with a new catch-phrase: Contemplative
Science. It brings together the most modern neuroscientific
approach and the most advanced phenomenological methodology of
studying the mind from within, through highly skilled
self-observation that has gone through many thousand hours of
honing the capacity to look carefully, without distraction. This
book addresses these issues by bringing together some of the
leading researchers and thinkers in the field. The scope of the
volume reaches from first person neuroscience to Indian philosophy,
from pedagogic applications to epistemological aspects and from
compassion meditation to the study of brain activity.
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