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Introduction
1. Opening Remarks: Brain Science as a Path to World Peace
2. Toward a Natural Science of the Mind
The Philosophical Roots of Science 18
On Perception, Representation, and Conceptualization 19
Mind and Brain: One and the Same? 22
A Materialist Critique of Dualism 24
The Technological Bias of Mind/Brain Metaphors 29
3. A Buddhist Response
A Middle Path between Dualism and Materialism 34
4. The Spectrum of Consciousness: From Gross to Subtle
When Does Consciousness Begin? 41
On Specialization and Adaptation 44
The Continuity of Subtle Consciousness 45
Cosmology and the Origins of Consciousness 48
5. Mapping Brain Functions: The Evidence of Damage to Specific Brain Regions
Categorical Distinctions in Consciousness 61
The Brain's Representation of Body Awareness 65
6. Subliminal Awareness and Memories from Previous Lives
7. Steps toward an Anatomy of Memory
Memory Reenacts Perception 78
Isolating Memory: The Evidence of Damage 79
Different Types of Memory 82
8. Brain Control of Sleeping and Dreaming States
Measuring Sleep and Dream Cycles 89
Neuronal Controls of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Waking 91
What is the Purpose of Dreaming? 97
Lucid Dreaming 99
9. Manifestations of Subtle Consciousness
10. What Constitutes Scientific Evidence?
11. Psychiatric Illnesses and Psychopharmacology
Noninvasive Imaging: A Window on the Brain 123
Classifying Mental Illnesses 126
Advances in Psychopharmacology 127
The Genetic Inheritance of Mental Illness 131
12. The Limits of Intervention
13. A Buddhist Deconstruction of the Mind's Self
14. In Conclusion: Building Bridges
15. Afterword: Buddhist Reflections by B. Alan Wallace
Appendix: About the Mind and Life Institute
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