reports from Tucson consciousness conference
Written on April 9, 2008
I’m hoping to find lots of blog coverage of the 2008 Tucson conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” that’s going on right now through Sunday, so I can participate vicariously. So far here’s what I’ve found:
Erik Davis on a pre-conference workshop on Julian Jaynes
John Derbyshire reports from the conference
“HOT Implies PAM” presentation preview from Richard Brown
Filed in: consciousness.
Would you consider adding this book to your listings? Review copies re available if you are interested.
Eirini Press releases Sciousness, edited by Jonathan Bricklin
In his classic textbook on psychology, William James coined the term “sciousness,” the
prime reality of non-dual consciousness, without a sense of self. In later essays,
sciousness was used by James to challenge the common sense division of reality into
subjects and objects. When quantum physicists such as Neils Bohr began issuing the
same challenge a decade later, they discovered that James had prepared the way. And as
the first modern-trained scientist to affirm the prime reality of non-dual experience,
James prepared the way for Westerners today who seek to comprehend mainstream
Eastern spiritual teachings — such as advaita, yoga, taoism, and zen — or the mystic
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aligned, in fact, was James’s thought to the East, that renowned Japanese philosopher,
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This volume features Jonathan Bricklin’s critically acclaimed essay Sciousness and Consciousness,
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Theodore Flournoy, as well as the Third Zen Patriarch Sosan’s treatise, On Believing in
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Denise, Thank you – I’d actually posted about that book awhile ago:
http://mymindonbooks.com/?p=353
I was hoping to get a copy through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program but missed out. I thought the idea of “sciousness” sounded pretty
interesting. I’ve emailed you too about the book.
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