Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience Assyrian Academic Society ISBN10: 0470223138

ISBN10: 0470223138

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Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience Assyrian Academic Society ISBN10: 0470223138Converging 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