In a new chapter published by Routledge, B. Alan Wallace and I discuss how professional contemplatives can work with neuroscientists, psychologists, and even physicists—not just as study participants, but as true colleagues who help frame the research. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...#consci

Contemplative Science | 9 | Expanding the Scope of Empiricism to Incre

Science would benefit tremendously from a theory of consciousness and other mental phenomena that can be unified with contemporary theories of physics and the

"Nobody pulls out a clock to know what time is, only what time it is." Robert Crease's perfect summary of our analysis of time (including the Bergson vs Einstein debate) in The Blind Spot. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...

What Scientists Can’t See: On Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”...

A short excerpt from The Blind Spot in Big Think. bigthink.com/13-8/why-sci...

The "blind spot" in science that's fueling a crisis of meaning

At the heart of many scientific challenges lies a lack of understanding of the human observer and their lived experiences.

Now out in Nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actually do.

“Not only does this imply that we have to take consistency of mathematics, as we understand it today, on faith. It also suggests that there’s actually no objective criterion as to which axioms we should choose for doing mathematics.” iai.tv/articles/mat...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwC... “…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup

Open-access book on the phenomenology of pure consciousness:

The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Expe...

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 con

“Considerable non-replication is thus to be expected even with the best reporting practices, and generalizations from single studies are rarely if ever warranted. … And that means we should treat statistical results as being much more incomplete and uncertain than is currently the norm.”

“Thus, a clear-cut distinction between subjective and objective measurements is neither advantageous nor useful, provided that the correct methodology is applied to rule out possible biases and other phenomena.” —Fabrizio Benedetti Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014. #consci

“In this view, reality is not a pre-written script but a participatory drama, with each observer playing a crucial role in shaping their experience. As Fuchs put it in a lecture earlier this year, in QBism, ‘when I take an action on the world, something genuinely new comes out.’” #consciousness

Christopher Fuchs is revolutionizing how we understand our quantum reality

The physicist and co-founder of the QBism theory is shaking up his field.