Abstract What forms the basis for validating any knowledge? Should it be always verified based on the objective and analytical methods that we adapt according to our progressive advancements in science or is there any other way of conceiving knowledge? This is the context where modern sophistication should embrace an ancient perspective. Recently, there have been great advancements in the science of consciousness and meditation. Meditation received much attention as a practice for wellbeing and as a tool for cognitive enhancement. Even though, hundreds of objective studies have been conducted on different practices of meditation across different traditions, there is one essential element missing in almost all of these studies: the discussion of the subjective experience of meditation. Embracing the traditional insights on meditation, we study this element by defining meditation based on the concept of introspection. In addition, we hypothesize that introspective meta-awareness associated with the non-conceptual experience of meditation may result in the conceptual understanding of natural phenomena via pathways of intuition. The proposed advancement bears implications for the ontological and epistemological basis of experiential knowledge, as well as, for developing introspection and meditation-based interventions for self and consciousness disorders.

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冥想内省通过直觉途径促进第一人称的意识科学：基于传统佛教和当代一元论框架的假设

摘要 什么构成了验证任何知识的基础？是否应该始终根据我们根据科学进步而调整的客观和分析方法来验证它，还是有任何其他方式来构思知识？在这种情况下，现代复杂性应该包含古老的观点。最近，意识和冥想的科学有了很大的进步。冥想作为一种幸福的练习和认知增强的工具受到了很多关注。尽管已经对不同传统的不同冥想练习进行了数百项客观研究，但几乎所有这些研究都缺少一个基本要素：对冥想主观体验的讨论。拥抱对冥想的传统见解，我们通过基于内省的概念定义冥想来研究这个元素。此外，我们假设与冥想的非概念体验相关的内省元意识可能会通过直觉途径导致对自然现象的概念性理解。拟议的进展对经验知识的本体论和认识论基础，以及针对自我和意识障碍开发基于内省和冥想的干预措施具有影响。