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At the heart of this book is one of the most ancient and profound question philosophers, spiritual seekers, and curious individuals have pondered since the beginning of history: “Who am I?” Advances in modern science, and access to Zen tradition, have provided us with broader and richer understanding of this topic. Over the chapters the author, a psychologist and Zen master, investigates how the brain fosters a sense of an independent self, situating his research in the contexts of neuroscience, ecology, evolution, psychology, and of the principles Eastern wisdom traditions. The book explores a broad range of insights from brain science, evolutionary biology, astronomy, clinical psychology, thoughts and emotions, mental health disorders, and Zen Buddhism. This book will appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counsellors, and researchers of Eastern traditions. General readers interested in the functioning of the brain wil l discover practical ways to integrate fascinating new findings on an age-old question into their everyday life.

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What is Kant ’s concept of apperception ? This study argues that apperception is crucially important for the philosophy of mind because it is indivisible from the method and outcome of Kant’s intuitive thinking for epistemology , ethics , and aesthetics . Then, the concept of apperception is necessarily revisited, reexamined, and reinterpreted employing recent findings in cognitive and neuroscience . Accordingly, apperception is potentially related to cognition at receptive mode with certain streams of consciousness that work for intuition. All this is considered the essential and structurally underlying foundation of Kant’s metaphysical legacy is thinking in the service of sensibility for design and technological invention and innovation.KeywordsKantApperceptionConsciousnessIntuitionRealityAssertion
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