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Waking, Dreaming, Being : New Light on the Self and Consciousness from Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson, Stephen Batchelor is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Waking, Dreaming, Being : New Light on the Self and Consciousness from Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy about?
A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of the mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined
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- Author
- Evan Thompson, Stephen Batchelor
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231538312
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Psychology
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (130 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Waking, Dreaming, Being : Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2014)
- Waking, Dreaming, Being : New Light on the Self and Consciousness from Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2009)
- Waking, Dreaming, Being : Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2015)
- Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2017)
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