Pure awareness experience
Brentyn J. Ramm,Brentyn J. Ramm +1 more
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I am aware of the red and orange autumn leaves, according to many meditative traditions as discussed by the authors, but am I aware of my awareness of the leaves? Not so according to most philosophers.Abstract:
I am aware of the red and orange autumn leaves. Am I aware of my awareness of the leaves? Not so according to many philosophers. By contrast, many meditative traditions report an experience of awar...read more
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The Transparency of Experience
TL;DR: The authors pointed out that the main force of this claim is to point out an explanatory challenge to sense-datum theories of perception, which cannot explain the fact that introspection indicates that our sensory experiences are directed on, or are about, the mindindependent entities in the world around us, that our sense experience is transparent to the world.
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The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism and show that these methods, although radically different from traditional meditation techniques, result in an experience with striking similarities to Zen accounts of awakening, in particular, as experiencing oneself as empty or void and yet totally united with the given world.
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The Phenomenology of “Pure” Consciousness as Reported by an Experienced Meditator of the Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu Tradition. Analysis of Interview Content Concerning Different Meditative States
TL;DR: In this article, a philosopher and a cognitive neuroscientist conversed with a Buddhist lama Tilmann Lhundrup Borghardt (TLB) about the unresolved phenomenological concerns and logical questions surrounding pure consciousness or minimal phenomenal experience.
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Experiments in Visual Perspective: Size Experience
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of first-person experiments for investigating subjective size experience was conducted, and it was shown that subjects do not experience visual angle when depth information is present.
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