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BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson

Nov 25, 2022

53:08

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Evan Thompson

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Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

02:00

The Blind Spot Experience Science and the Search for Reality

01:58

Brain Science Podcast Interview - Evan Thompson

05:52

Introduction

2min

Brain Science Podcast Interview - Evan Thompson

6min

Text Expander - Brain Science Podcast

2min

Meditation Is a Mind Science

4min

Is Meditation a Science?

3min

Meditation and the Mind and the Brain

4min

The Right Perspective From Which to Understand Meditation Is a Confusion of Levels

3min

The Mind Is in the Brain

3min

Is the Self a Constructor of the Body?

4min

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Why Buddhism Is True?

4min

11.

Masterclass - The New Sponsor

2min

12.

The Blind Spot Experience Science and the Search for Reality

2min

13.

Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

2min

14.

How Cosmopolitanism Functions in the Book

2min

15.

The Blind Spot - Why I'm Not a Buddhist

2min

16.

Brain Science Podcast Review - Are You Sure?

3min

17.

Is Meditation a Mind Science?

3min

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The Mind Is Not What the Brain Does

5min

The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim does not stand up to either scientific or philosophical scrutiny. As one of the pioneers of the Embodied Cognition movement Thompson reminds us that the Mind is not restricted to the Brain and we must also consider how other recent discoveries in neuroscience fail to support the claim that meditation provides neutral scientific insight into how the Mind really works.

Links and References:

Evan Thompson's website
Why I am not a Buddhist by Evan Thompson
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson
- discussed in BS 198
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson
- discussed in BS 115
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