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Evan Thompson - Expanding Our View of the Mind

Mind & Life

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What's the Difference Between the Subjective and the Objective?

francisco saw science as itself based in lived experience. And he thought that that was especially important when we turn to investigate the mind scientifically, because there's ways that you can bracket certain kinds of considerations about experience. He wasn't interested so much in studying meditation as an object. The driving question for him was how can the practices that we see used in meditative contexts be used to make phenomenology more precise? That could then feed directly into a collaboration with cognitive nervo science and consciousness studies.

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