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Posted August 2020
Can a religion founded thousands of years ago help to shed light on the pioneering science behind human consciousness? Buddhist monk and molecular biologist Matthieu Ricard may seem poles apart from his friend, the esteemed neuroscientist Wolf Singer, where a discussion of the mind is concerned. Yet the pair have much to discuss on the ideas of selfhood, free will and the nature of consciousness. Together, they show us how to think about the act of thinking.
