Consciousness Mattering
A Buddhist Synthesis
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350411258
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
