Consciousness, Environmental Ethics and Science-Religion Dialogue — India Interview Savijñanam, Singh, Srivastava 2013

"Consciousness, Environmental Ethics and Science-Religion Dialogue." Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/89527
In Savijñanam (Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute), theme issue: Scientific Exploration for a Spiritual Paradigm, vol. 8 (2013)1-18 (Calcutta, India).

Rolston interviewed by T. D. Singh and J. N. Srivastava, on the occasion of his winning the Templeton Prize (2003). Neuroscience has made enormous advances, so we have got accounts of how the cells work. However, we are far from a good theory that suggests how conscious experience appears, emerging from such neural molecular activity. A lot of psychologists see behaviorism as too incomplete, or partial. It is a big question whether the mind is a result of brain functions or it is just a perceiver. Vedantic tradition proclaims that mind and soul exist as separate elements in nature. This could be an interesting field of research for modern scientists. This has implications to who we are and to our ethics in relation to other beings and environment.