buddhism is a religion and philosophyphilosophy
philosophy happens when friends of wisdom create concepts (socrates; deleuze) discuss (rorty) how to direct their lives (seneca) and dispel misconceptions that hinder them (... started by Siddhartha Gautama, the buddhabuddha
. Buddhism has much to say about consciousnessconsciousness
consciousness
human
free will
habit
meditation
The Politics of Consciousness
among other things.
vervaekevervaeke
john vervaeke is a professor of cognitive science at the university of toronto. he has developed a theory called relevance realization, which is explained in his excellent lecture series on You... reads the first noble truth not as the idea that one is always in pain but as the fact that the threat of self-deception always looms over us.
There are the Mahayana and Theravada schools.