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The Upanishads and Consciousness Studies: A Dialogue with Neuroscience: Ancient Non-Dual Philosophy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the Scienc
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Consciousness remains the most contested frontier in modern science.
Neuroscience maps neural networks with increasing precision. Philosophy of mind debates emergence, physicalism, panpsychism, and the explanatory gap. Yet the central question persists: why does subjective experience exist at all?
The Upanishads and Consciousness Studies stages a rigorous dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and the ancient non-dual inquiry of the Upanishads.
This is not devotional commentary.
It is not reductionist materialism.
It is not popular spirituality.
It is a disciplined philosophical investigation.
Drawing from analytic philosophy of mind, predictive processing theory, neural correlates of consciousness, and classical Advaita Vedānta, Dr Bhaskar Bora examines:
- The Hard Problem of consciousness
- The self-model and misidentification
- Avidyā as structural cognitive error
- Witness consciousness and subject-object inversion
- Emergence vs fundamentality
- The ontology of Brahman
- Meditation research and neural plasticity
- Language limits and ineffability
- Cosmology and ultimate reality
Rather than collapsing science into scripture-or scripture into science-this book clarifies levels of explanation with precision.
Neural correlates are treated empirically.
Metaphysical claims are treated philosophically.
Category errors are exposed without rhetoric.
For readers in philosophy of mind, neuroscience, consciousness studies, comparative philosophy, and non-dual traditions, this work offers a rare integration grounded in intellectual integrity.
It does not promise easy answers.
It offers sharpened clarity.
If consciousness is emergent, let it be emergent without remainder.
If it is fundamental, let that claim withstand scrutiny.
The dialogue remains open.
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