The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that[...]
Combines ethics with cognitive science in a unique way.
Drawing on a wide range of approaches, from phenomenology to meditation, this publication examines the possibility of a disciplined approach to the study of subjective states.[...]
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Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of mind.
What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and provocative, for the authors[...]