Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse (book review) White, Curtis

240107: surprisingly, or maybe not, found discussion of the 'hard problem' of consciousness in analytic dealt with supremely in the arts, in buddhism, in continental philosophy, most interesting. this seems to be confusion of ideal substance or process (analytic) or 'what', with ambiguity born through art or 'how' (continental) that slips very easily into Buddhist seeing of true reality...

this is the first chapter. followed by essays which often seem more political than buddhist, often seem parochial. these chapters are less interesting... 'time of collapse' seems all times, but perhaps this is melancholy remembrance of and author...