Neuroenhancement: How Mental Training And Meditation Can Promote Epistemic Virtue. (springerbriefs In Ethics)
by Barbro Fröding /
2015 / English / PDF
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This book explores how one can bring about changes in the
brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and
through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural
sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve
these structural and functional changes through various life-style
practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence
some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could
boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act
compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling
of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our
quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible
introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special
focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices
could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our
moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text
discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics
perspective.
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the
brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and
through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural
sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve
these structural and functional changes through various life-style
practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence
some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could
boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act
compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling
of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our
quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible
introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special
focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices
could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our
moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text
discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics
perspective.
