Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience By Matthieu Ricard

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Converging 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 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 distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience's precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.

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I really liked this book. There should be more books like this, which bridge the gaps between points of view. One of the great things is they were very respectful of the other's point of view, even when they disagreed. Some books are weak, when the only thing they can claim possible are points of agreement. This one does a good job of expressing both points of view.The only reason I gave it a 4 and and not a 5 is that I would like to see more points of view. I appreciate that this book was a lot of work by itself. But, there are even more ways to look at this. For example, toward the end of the book, when the authors disagreed about consciousness, it was obvious the reason for their disagreement was they were assuming different definitions of consciousness. I have read several books, lately, about the mind, and I can say there are many more definitions of consciousness than these two. It would be great to include others in the discussion: Hindu, zen, a couple members of Jewish/Christian/Muslim faith (one intellectual and one spiritual), a physicist (Michio Kaku has lots of good ideas), a psychologist, and a sociologist. Perhaps there could be a conference on consciousness. Hopefully, the atmosphere would be as constructive as this book.As another example, I respect the one author's point of view, but I disagree with his conclusion about free will. Events need to be reproducible for science to study them. So, of course science is going to conclude that there is no free will, since the assumption of determinism is the starting point. Science is very useful (obviously), but I believe, just like we can't use a thermometer to measure pressure, we can't use science to measure free will. But, this is not a complaint, this is just the sort of discussions I would like to see more of.

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