具身认知:佛学的视角

Embodied Cognition:An Buddhist Research

作为现代认知科学的新兴研究范式,具身认知强调身体在认知的实现中发挥着关键作用。但对于身体是什么以及身体如何影响认知等问题,有关各方的研究者却都未能给予很好的说明。佛教在漫长的历史发展过程中,藉由禅修实践积累了大量的基于身体方案的"准"具身认知的素材;其"心色不二"的蕴积身体观,"根"、"尘"、"识"相互缘起的认知观以及独到的"第一人称研究方法"(禅观)等,对于当前具身认知研究的进一步深入具有重要的启发意义。

As an developping research paradigm of cognitive science,the embodied cognition approach is featured as the emphasis it places on the role the body plays in an organism＇s cognitive processes.However,the problems such as ＂What＇s a body？＂ and ＂How does a body influence its cognitive processes？＂ have never been clearly explained in the modern cognitive science research.In its long development history,the Buddhism has accumulated a lot of data of the quasi-embodied cognition by many eminent monks＇deep meditation.These data,e.g.a body as a skandha of citta and rupa,a cognition as a pratitya-samutpada of indriya,guna and vijnana,and the first person research approach like the deep meditation,are very important to promote the current research of the embodied cognition.