Bridging East and West. In the Search for a New Approach to Consciousness. Remarks on the sidelines of the book by Evan Thompson Waking, Dreaming, Being. Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy, Columbia University Press, New Yo
Anita Pacholik-Żuromska
Kultura i Edukacja June 30, 2016 DOI: 10.15804/kie.2016.02.18 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Dreaming Meditation |
| Citations | 6 |
| Key points | The paper describes Thompson's book as arguing that contemplative neuroscience, a new discipline he proposes, should inform debates about cognition, knowledge, and self-knowledge. Thompson applies this methodology to phenomena including dreaming, perception, imagination, and dying, all examined in relation to the question of what consciousness is. |
Abstract
The aim of this paper is a short overview of the book of Evan Thompson Wak ing, Dreaming, Being.Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy, with some polemic remarks.Thompson presents an interest ing approach to the problem of cognition, knowledge and selfknowledge -the problems considered in philosophy, psychology, neurosciences, which -if they interact -create an interdisciplinary platform called "cognitive sci ences".However, Thompson proposes to bring on the debate within the field of a new discipline: contemplative neuroscience, for which he argues in the presented book.Using the methodology offered by this new kind of science he analyzes such phenomena as dream, perception, imagination, and even dying -all of them in reference to the problem of what consciousness is.