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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...ISBN : 9780262036948

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Author

Ricard, Matthieu & Singer, Wolf

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262343022

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Psychology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14