The Elephant and the Blind
The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports
$171.32
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2024
Summary
An engaging and insightful journey into human consciousness.
What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness?
In The Elephant and the Blind, influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world’s leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than 500 experiential reports to offer the world’s first comprehensive account of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547109 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547104 |
| Author: | Thomas Metzinger |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 231mm x 181mm |
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“Books about consciousness don’t come any more radical…than The Elephant and the Blind….a monumental study of the state of ‘pure,’ or minimal,’ consciousness, experienced during meditation…. a big book (over 600 pages) with big ambitions, but Metzinger, a theoretical philosopher at the University of Mainz in Germany, has never been a conventional thinker….Metzinger has achieved something wonderful….brings new insights into consciousness and has created a poetics of meditative experience.”—New Scientist
About The Author
Thomas Metzinger
Thomas Metzinger was Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit t Mainz. He is the author of The Ego Tunnel and Being No One (MIT Press), the coeditor of Open MIND, and the editor of Neural Correlates of Consciousness (both MIT Press).
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