Peter D. Hershock

Consciousness Mattering (eBook, ePUB)

A Buddhist Synthesis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350411234
• Artikelnr.: 69059045

Autorenporträt

Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program and Coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Consciousness as Dynamic Relationality: A Buddhist
Perspective 2. Creative Anticipation: Consciousness in the Wild 3. Toward a
Buddhist Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Sentient Expansion of the Cosmos
4. Beyond Organic Consciousness: The Coming of Conscious Machines 5.
Altering Consciousness: Toward a Neuroscience of Experimental Evolution 6.
Consciousness Theory Mattering: Responsibilities of Engineered Evolution 7.
The Future of Human Consciousness: Cultural and Ethical Evolution Appendix:
A Genealogy of Contemporary Synthesis Notes Works Cited Index