Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
12 pointsby arunc6 hours ago3 comments
  • N_Lens3 hours ago
    As a practitioner of meditation and a student of Buddhism, this article offers a limited perspective. In my humble opinion there are many many different modes of consciousness that do not benefit from the simple 'antidotes' described in this article.

    But then again I've read Matthieu Ricard's book and find his writing to be less than compelling, very subjective and generalizing ideas that have easy to find exceptions. Not to take away from the absolute wealth of knowledge in Buddhism.

  • rramadass2 hours ago
    The classic book on this subject is Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness by James H. Austin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Brain and https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511094/zen-and-the-brain/ and http://www.zenandthebrain.com/

    Be warned though; it is a huge, dense and detailed book since the author is both a neuroscientist/neurologist and a zen meditation practitioner himself.

    • anthk36 minutes ago
      Look up the articles and videos from Alex Gómez Marín too. A few of these are in Spanish, but technical Spanish will almost perfectly map into technical English with any good online translator. I'd say the wording, constructs and Romance based words in papers are 100% the same and they will translate perfectly fine.
  • anthk39 minutes ago
    That reminds me on Lee Si Chen, a great Electrical Engineer (IEEE level) but a fringe science supporter. Yes, a bit like Will Beaty and in its infamous web from the 90's, but he put all of these theories under a section "just in case some cracknut it's right".

    Back to Si Chen, here you have:

    - Paper about finger reading

    https://ijhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SCLee-2-2.pdf

    - Video explanation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ9g1CM5m8Q