Four. The Essence of Mind: Dualism, Mind-Body Entanglement, and Conscious Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part one: Matter and Mind
6. One: Diving into Indra’s Net: Quantum Holism and Relativity 21
7. Two: Why the Moon Follows Me: Observation and Relationality in Phenomena 51
8. Three: The Silence of the Noble Ones: Madhyamaka on the Limits of Reality 85
9. Four. The Essence of Mind: Dualism, Mind-Body Entanglement, and Conscious Experience 99
10. Five. The Feeling of Being a Brain: Material Correlates of Consciousness 112
11. Six. Moth’s-Eye View: Theoretical Cognitive Modeling 142
12. Seven. To Look at the Mind with the Mind: Buddhist Views of Consciousness 151
13. Eight. A Strange Loop of Relations: Phenomenology and Experience 171
14. Part two. Transformation
15. Nine. The Plastic Brain Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity 195
16. Ten. If You Toss a Stone into a Lake: Attention and Emotion in the Brain 211
17. Eleven. I Feel Your Pain: The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and Compassion 234
18. Twelve. Working Skillfully with Spilled Milk: Mindfulness in Clinical Psychology 270
19. Thirteen. A Living Tradition: Applications of Compassion Training 284
20. Fourteen. The Heart of Education: Learning through Contemplative Experience 304
21. Fifteen. Transformative Measures: Education and Secular Ethics 324
22. Appendix: Questions and Answers with Five Thousand Monastics 337
23. Notes 349
24. Contributors 367
25. Supporting Organizations 370
26. Index 373