The Depth of the Mind

• Autores: Shizuteru Ueda
• Localización: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen / Ralf Müller (ed. lit.), Raquel Bouso García (ed. lit.), Adam Loughnane (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-92320-4, págs. 91-94
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Last year [1995] on the 1st of July, the Science Council of Japan held a public academic culture forum in Kyōto, on the problem of “The Brain and the Mind.” Following the lecture “From Neuroscience to the Mind,” given by the director of the Science Council, Itō Masao 伊藤正男, I gave a lecture entitled “The Depth of the Mind.” One may say that the manner in which these two disharmonious terms, “neuroscience” and “depth of mind,” stood alongside each other at such an event, is itself testimony of the problematic situation that arises from the uncertainty of contemporary human existence. When they are brought together into cooperation, these terms present the possibility of fulfilling human existence. When they are separated, they have the potential to fracture human existence, and expose human beings to the nihilism that lurks within these gaps. We vacillate with uncertainty at the entanglement of these two possibilities. What is more, one must admit that in actuality, the latter is our actual situation, while the former has become simply an ideal.