Metaphysics and Neurobiology of Consciousness. Three Aspects of Reality

This book offers a working model of consciousness that connects the millennia-old tradition of Indian ontology (Vedanta, Buddhism) with data from modern neurobiology. You will learn what the «bricks» of our experience are made of, why attention jumps from one thing to another, how we recognize a snake in the grass or a familiar face in a crowd, and why the brain constantly reconstructs reality rather than simply reflecting it. You will understand the mechanism of cognition — that very moment of «aha!» when uncertainty turns into clarity. And most importantly: why we suffer and what can be done about it if we look at ourselves from the outside. The book is intended for philosophers, psychologists, psycholinguists, psychophysiologists, neuroscientists, and anyone interested in the problems of consciousness and their metaphysical foundations.