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The Depth of Mind: Yogācāra Consciousness and the Modern Science of Cognition

The Depth of Mind: Yogācāra Consciousness and the Modern Science of Cognition

Song, Mason

Paperback

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN13: 9798254111054
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Depth of Mind is a philosophical meditation on consciousness in an age that has mastered information but forgotten understanding. At the intersection of Yogācāra Buddhism, modern cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, this book asks a single, fundamental question: What is it that knows?

Drawing on the Yogācāra insight that consciousness is not a passive mirror but an active process of differentiation, the book presents mind as the dynamic field in which self and world arise together. Concepts such as vijñāna, vijñapti-mātra, and the eightfold structure of consciousness are reinterpreted through dialogue with contemporary theories of perception, predictive processing, and the constructed nature of experience.

What emerges is not a synthesis of traditions, but a reorientation of thought itself. The world is no longer something merely perceived, nor the self something that stands apart from it. Both appear within the same unfolding of awareness. To understand consciousness, then, is not simply to describe the mind, but to see through the structures that sustain the illusion of separation. [oai_citation:0]The Depth of MInd-final.pdf](sediment: //file_0000000006dc72099bace1c2a33a8949)

Written for readers of philosophy, consciousness studies, and contemplative thought, The Depth of Mind offers not a doctrine to believe, but a way of seeing. It is a book for those who suspect that the deepest problem of our time is not technological, but ontological-and that the resolution of that problem begins within awareness itself.

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