Naturalized psychology as a neurophilosocial and neuroepistemological tool to study the connections between mind and brain. The example of neurosciences and Eastern philosophy

The present work aims to test for a potential tool in the study of the link between mind and brain, taking as possible bridges meditation and its effects on the nervous system. These bridges can be routed through the naturalization of psychological pro­cesses, relating them to different biological processes. The purpose is to contribute to the study of the consequences of several different psychological processes in the body in a dialectic way. Taking naturalized processes as a tool, sealing the psychological processes through simplification and reductionism, or biologizing psychology are avoided. Alternatively, the study of this relationship from the emerging perspective of mind-brain interactions was addressed. In recent years, a great amount of research has been done on meditation as a paradigm to observe the effects of subjetive processes on the nervous system. In this sense, the analysis of the biological effects of different meditations would aid to arrive to some conclusions about the link between mind and brain. In this sense the naturalization of the effects of subjectivity on the organism through meditation would allow to obtain more information about this relationship, and building this way an epistemic, psychological and philosophical analysis of per­ception and construction of internal reality.