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Zusatztext The book demonstrates in an impressive way how western science of the brain can learn from eastern spiritual tradition. Consciousness is not in the brain, it is in the relationship between the world and the brain. Informationen zum Autor Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program and Coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center, USA. Klappentext Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads and consists in the creative elaboration of relations among sensed and sensing presences, and more fundamentally between matter and what matters. Hershock argues that without consciousness there would only be either unordered sameness or nothing at all. Evolution is consciousness mattering. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibility of machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potentials of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock invites us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters. Vorwort Presents a contemporary Buddhist theory of consciousness in which brains, bodies, and environments are material infrastructure for human consciousness. Zusammenfassung Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads and consists in the creative elaboration of relations among sensed and sensing presences, and more fundamentally between matter and what matters. Hershock argues that without consciousness there would only be either unordered sameness or nothing at all. Evolution is consciousness mattering. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibility of machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potentials of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock invites us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Consciousness as Dynamic Relationality: A Buddhist Perspective2. Creative Anticipation: Consciousness in the Wild 3. Toward a Buddhist Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Sentient Expansion of the Cosmos4. Beyond Organic Consciousness: The Coming of Conscious Machines5. Altering Consciousness: Toward a Neuroscience of Experimental Evolution6. Consciousness Theory Mattering: Responsibilities of Engineered Evolution7. The Future of Human Consciousness: Cultural and Ethical Evolution Appendix: A Genealogy of Contemporary Synthesis NotesWorks CitedIndex...
