Consciousness Mattering

A Buddhist Synthesis

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Hardcover | 14 December 2023

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224 Pages

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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. Peter D. Hershock argues it consists in the creative work of elaborating relations among sensed and sensing presences, and more fundamentally between matter and what matters. He puts forward the case for a process of coherent differentiation without which 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 possibilities for machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potential of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock advances our understanding of consciousness to invite us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters.

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