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Exploring Actuality through Experiment and Experience

 Piet Hut
  
 

Abstract:

A comparison is presented of three approaches to an understanding of "what is actual": modern science, Husserlian phenomenology, and Tibetan Buddhist Dzog Chen. In each approach, experiment is the central touch stone, while the theoretical "foundations" are dynamically changing. The roles that consciousness plays in each of the three approaches are contrasted, in a comparative analysis that provides a fresh look at the question of the possibility of a scientific study of consciousness.

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