Add to ORKGI believe that the Buddhist paradigm of the phenomenal world—particularly, the Buddhist assertion that the phenomenal world is not as it appears—is supported by a scientific analysis of perception. When we consider carefully the basics of human perception, as understood by modern science, it becomes clear that phenomenal events are not represented as they truly are. This infidelity of information transfer from external phenomena to personal experience is consistent with the Buddhist view of the world as 'illusory'. Further, I would argue that the creation of an illusory external world by our sensory instrumentation is compatible with the Buddhist doctrine of the non-duality of perception and perceiver
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My dissertation contributes to a central and ongoing debate in the philosophy of perception about th...
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughou...
Illusionists claim that phenomenal consciousness does not exist, but merely seems to exist. Most deb...
I believe that the Buddhist paradigm of the phenomenal world—particularly, the Buddhist assertion th...
This paper responds to critical commentaries on my book, Perceiving Reality (OUP, 2012), by Laura Gu...
Both early and later forms of Buddhism developed a set of arguments to demonstrate that the self is ...
Illusionists about consciousness boldly argue that phenomenal consciousness does not fundamentally e...
Abstract: All major systems of belief claim to have a distinctive understanding and relation to what...
This thesis is about the problem of how sensory qualities relate to neural states or processes. I sh...
Is the immediacy of our knowledge an epistemological ideal or merely a psychological reassurance tha...
The simulation hypothesis is a view of the nature of reality, suggesting that our world is likely a ...
There is a transpersonal reality behind the doors of perception. This reality manifests itself in th...
According to illusionism, phenomenal consciousness does not exist. There is nothing “it is like” to ...
What we perceive with our five senses is not reality. Quantum physics has shown that space and time ...
My dissertation contributes to a central and ongoing debate in the philosophy of perception about th...
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughou...
Illusionists claim that phenomenal consciousness does not exist, but merely seems to exist. Most deb...