Susan Blackmore on Zen consciousness - UNCUT   Susan Blackmore
is a British psychologist who's written books on consciousness,
memes and parapsychology. She's also fascinated by what Zen
Buddhism can tell us about the mind. In this EXTENDED interview,
she says her daily practice of meditation has revealed truths
that have eluded the scientific study of consciousness.
Average: 3 (3 votes)   Two questions: 1. How can a scientist
ever purport to explain consciousness when all of his or her
experiments and thoughts about them occur within a
consciousness, namely their own? Isn't there some inevitable
circularity there? 2. I have had the repeated experience during
meditation of a physical sensation that occurs invariably just
before my decision to breath in. Does this invalidate free will
or does it just mean the decision occurs first at a level deeper
than what I consciously experience as "me" but "I" am still the
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