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Anton Kuznetsov gave an introductory lecture for a group of Buddhist monks-researchers within the framework of the project: "Research of altered states of human consciousness on the model of meditation
of high-level monks-practitioners"
In 2017 and 2018, the Center participated in dialogues of Russian scientists with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Buddhist scientists, which took place in Delhi and the foothills of the Himalayas of Dharamsala.
Now a group of monks has come to Russia to study neuroscience. Our employee Anton Kuznetsov gave an introductory lecture on consciousness and the mind-body problem for them.
According to Anton, a deep dialogue between Buddhist and Western science is possible only with a dialogue of philosophies. After all, the basic attitudes of Western science are rooted in classical European philosophy, which forms a network of fundamental categories and concepts concerning consciousness, existence, causality and the principles of cognition.
And here is another of his impressions of the event: "In the course of further discussion, I suddenly discovered that monks think about consciousness and even spirits in a very materialistic way. In their opinion, everything has matter, but only different. In the context of my concepts, this is contradictory metaphysics. But I am not rushing to conclusions, because Buddhist materialism is not materialistic in the categories of European metaphysics."
Neuroscientists Konstantin Anokhin and Olga Ivashkina also gave their lectures. Anokhin presented a view of consciousness and the brain from the standpoint of the theory of functional systems, and Ivashkina gave a general idea of modern neuroscience.
