On Kawara : Consciousness, meditation, watcher on the hills

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions...

This chapter considers a form of attention-based meditation as a novel means to gain insight into the mechanisms and phenomenology of spontaneous thought. Focused attention (FA) me...

Abstract The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you bel...

This chapter examines John Locke's argument that it is possible to transfer consciousness of an action from one agent or thinking or intellectual substance to another as part of hi...