Selfless Agents

Chadha, Monima; Brewer, Judson

Selfless Agents

dc.contributor.author	Chadha, Monima
dc.contributor.author	Brewer, Judson
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-03T19:16:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-03T19:16:18Z
dc.date.issued	2015-03-14
dc.description	This presentation was delivered at the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project's 2015 Interdisciplinary Moral Forum, held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This project will address the fundamental question in the background of the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project: How is the Self to be conceived? We challenge the premise of western philosophy that a diachronically unified self is the locus of moral progress? Instead, we posit the fifth century B.C. Buddhist thesis that a diachronically unified self is a conceptual falsity and it is not necessary for moral progress. This hypothesis will be validated through novel neurophenomenological experimentation using advanced brain mapping techniques. Neurophenomenology seeks to integrate valid first-person subjective information with third-person objective measures to gain a more complete understanding of mind and consciousness. Buddhist phenomenological insights, which enable elicitation of highly refined and informative first-person reports, will underpin the experimental design.	en_US
dc.description.peerreview	No	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/22719
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SMV Project Conference 2015
dc.relation.uri	https://youtu.be/PFJMoXcMcSY
dc.subject	Religion, Philosophy of.	en_US
dc.subject	Philosophy	en_US
dc.subject	Psychology, Cognitive.	en_US
dc.title	Selfless Agents	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
ou.group	ISHF::Moral Self Archive::Conferences::2015