From Zen to Neuron: How to Improve Your Life Using Western Neuroscience and Eastern Wisdom

This book will serve as a guide for those seeking a coherent way to improve the quality of life in the age of artificial intelligence.

Mikhail Bazhmin is a second-generation physician, a psychiatrist, a Candidate of Medical Sciences, and the head of a department of combined pathology in Israel. He develops the system of home hospitalization and teaches students at Shaar Menashe. He is also known as the author of the book “Sex, Death, and Haloperidol. How the Brain of a Criminal Works.” Mikhail and his co-authors—Olga Bazhmina, Natalia Demkina, and Alexander Demkin—have been devoted for many years to Eastern art, especially Japanese culture and traditions. In their book “From Zen to Neuron: How to Improve Your Life by Using Western Neuroscience and the Wisdom of the East,” they combined their accumulated experience and knowledge.

Technological progress is accelerating with every year, while traditional arts remain unchanged for decades and even centuries. Where does the line lie between Eastern wisdom and artificial intelligence? Can philosophy teach a machine to perceive reality holistically? In this book, the authors look for answers to these questions and attempt to connect two, at first glance, opposite aspects of our lives.