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Consciousness quest : where East meets West : on mind, meditation, and neural correlates / J.P. Das.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Sage Publication 2014Description: xix, 307 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788132113492 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 23 42583
LOC classification:
  • BF201 .D37 2014
Contents:
Foreword / by K. Ramakrishna Rao -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Concept of consciousness and Indian theories of mind -- Cognition, neuropsychology, and consciousness -- Experience of consciousness : eastern phenomenology -- Explanations from neuroscience -- Consciousness and meditation : at the intersection of eastern traditions -- And neuroscience -- Foundations of mindfulness -- Interpretations of mindfulness -- A comparison of two cognitive processing models : the Abhidhamma and PASS -- Contemporary western research : from Julian Jaynes to Eckhart Tolle -- Talking about consciousness, self-knowledge, access, and sentience -- Materialism and behaviorism in eastern philosophy and western psychology -- Material basis of consciousness -- Origin and uses of consciousness : in the beginning is its end -- Hard problems : legacy of ancient times -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-300) and index.

Foreword / by K. Ramakrishna Rao -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Concept of consciousness and Indian theories of mind -- Cognition, neuropsychology, and consciousness -- Experience of consciousness : eastern phenomenology -- Explanations from neuroscience -- Consciousness and meditation : at the intersection of eastern traditions -- And neuroscience -- Foundations of mindfulness -- Interpretations of mindfulness -- A comparison of two cognitive processing models : the Abhidhamma and PASS -- Contemporary western research : from Julian Jaynes to Eckhart Tolle -- Talking about consciousness, self-knowledge, access, and sentience -- Materialism and behaviorism in eastern philosophy and western psychology -- Material basis of consciousness -- Origin and uses of consciousness : in the beginning is its end -- Hard problems : legacy of ancient times -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

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