# meditation and consciousness -can we experience experience as broken **Opening (not a real abstract):** What can practices and theoretical analyses of meditation teach us about consciousness? And what can recent philosophical and psychological investigations of consciousness teach us about meditation? The terms “meditation” and “consciousness,” and related words in other languages, have each been used in many different ways. In order to begin to address the questions posed above effectively and in any depth, it is necessary at least initially to narrow the range of investigation. I will use “consciousness” to refer to “phenomenal consciousness” in the sense that that phrase has figured in debates in recent analytic philosophy (Block 1995; Chalmers 1995; Block 2007). In particular, Block (1995, 2007) has contrasted this notion of phenomenal consciousness, meaning what it is like for a conscious being to have some vivid experience (cf. Nagel 1974), **Authors:** [[Davis]]