Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind

by Jeremy W. Hayward, Francisco J. Varela (Editor), Dalai Lama

Overview

What is the essence of the mind? Could computers ever have consciousness? Can compassion be learned? When does consciousness enter the human embryo? These are just some of the many questions that were discussed during a historic meeting that took place between several prominent Western scientists and the Dalai Lama. Gentle Bridges is a chronicle of this extraordinary exchange of ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570628931
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	10/16/2001
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Hayward is the international education director of Shambhala Training. He is the author of Letters to Vanessa: On Love, Science, and Awareness in an Enchanted World and Shifting Worlds, Changing Minds: Where the Sciences and Buddhism Meet. He teaches warriorship retreats around the world.

Francisco J. Varela, Ph.D., was Fondation de France Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology at the École Polytechnique and the Institute of Neuroscience of Paris. He is also the author of Principles of Biological Autonomy.