Mind-Wandering & Meta-Awareness - A Conversation with Jonathan Schooler

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Jonathan Schooler, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This wide-ranging conversation examines how mind-wandering can serve as a window into the psychological world of meta-awareness. further topics include the nature of consciousness, mindfulness, creativity, free will, verbal overshadowing and more. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Back to the Future, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:I. Meta-Beginnings - Grappling with universal vaguenessII. Getting Precise - Definition and measurementsIII. Brain-Wandering? - What’s happening inside IV. Creativity - Mind-wandering’s upsideV. Responses - Views from the other sideVI. On the Wild Side - Free will and multiple universesVII. Outstanding Issues - From the Decline Effect to an encouraging universeAbout Ideas Roadshow Conversations: