Neurociência da subjetividade: ensaio quantitativo-qualitativo sobre praticantes de meditação vipassana

Abstract

The understanding of the individual's mental states, of their subjectivity through meditative techniques learned in the Vipassana Meditation course, retreat, boosted the exploration of which areas, systems, structures and functions of the central nervous system explain this perception.The Neuroscience of Subjectivity presents inferences, implications of scientific works in neurosciences that explain these subjective, self-referring processes when coming into contact with the mental content generated by the body and the body itself. This work developed these themes through a quantitative-qualitative essay with the participation of 89 individuals who took Vipassana Meditation courses. The development of this research generated two articles presented in Chapters 1 (Vipassana Meditation: Mind and Body States of Consciousness) and 2 (Essay on the Path of Freedom: the Four Noble Truths, the Neuroscience of Subjectivity and its Implications), with respective theories, materials, methods, results and discussion. In general, the results of this work divided into the researches presented: proof of clear perception of body and mind states of consciousness by participants of a Vipassana course; evidence of the Neuroscience of Subjectivity through correlations with Essential Principles of Vipassana and the Four Noble Truths; development of substantive theory about the phenomenon of body observation during meditative exercises through the Path of Freedom category in all its phases(acceptance, cause, action, eradication). In short, the universe of the body, at the same time that it seems tangible due to its physical nature, still has a lot of mental content to be explored through the connection of each individual with himself, as well as disseminating and exploring the Neuroscience of Subjectivity because there is a lot yet to be learned and discovered in this area.