You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 2
Marco V Morelli
In Part 2 of their talk, Caroline and Marco continue exploring the relation between meditation and the body. Can meditation can help transmute the karma that comes with the development of abstract thinking and the rise of civilization? Caroline argues that the expansion of the notion of the individual I, which may have once conferred…
You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 1
Marco V Morelli
In this episode, Marco and Caroline formulate their responses to the Buddhist Geeks podcast episode “Secularizing Buddhist Ethics” with Vincent Horn and Stephen Batchelor. Caroline explains how her understanding of the ways consciousness materially evolves in complex systems—via Douglas Hofstadter of Godel, Escher, Bach and Maturana/Varela’s Santiago School Theory of Cognition—intersects profoundly with her understanding…