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Henk Barendregt (papers in English)


Buddhist Phenomenology, Part I (PDF for printing only)

In: Proceedings of the Conference on Topics and Perspectives of Contemporary Logic and Philosophy of Science,

Cesena, Italy, January 7-10, 1987, (Ed. M. dalla Chiara), Clueb, Bologna, 1988, 37-55.

[Experience with vipassana; the three fundamental characteristics of existence.]


Mysticism and beyond, Buddhist Phenomenology, Part II (PDF for printing only)

In: The Eastern Buddhist, New Series, vol XXIX, 1996, 262-287.

[The cover-up model of the mind, a contemporary view on the four nobel truths.]


Addendum to Buddhist Phenomenology, Part II: The washingmachine-model

[The model describes how ups and downs happen during mental development and are essential.] 2008.


The Ancient Theory of Mind

In: Formal Aspects of Computing, 2002,13, 422-429.

Lecture at Harvard (October 2001). Written ten days before 9/11, a plea for tolerance was made.

[Types of religions: belief versus mental development and seeing for oneself.]


Reflection and its use: from Science to Meditation

In: Spiritual Information, ed. Charles L. Harper, Jr., Templeton Foundation Press, 2005, 415-423.

[Reflection as essential ingredient of many important phenomena, including mindfulness.]


Consciousness: belief and hypothesis

In: "What we believe but cannot prove", ed. John Brockman, Free Press, 2005.

[Ideas on consciousness and hypotheses that may be verified or refuted; Dutch version see below.]


The Abhidhamma Model of Consciousness AM_0 and some of its consequences

In:Buddhist Psychology: Practice, Research & Theory, Eds. M.G.T. Kwee, K.J. Gergen and F. Koshikawa.

Taos Institute Publishing, Taos, New Mexico, 2006, 331-349.

[Translating parts of the Abhidhamma in modern terms, refining the cover-up model.]


Buddhist models of the mind and the common core thesis on mysticism

In: Proceedings of the conference "One Hundred Years of Intuitionism (1907-2007)", 2008, 131-145.

[Concentration vs insight meditation with an application to the mysticism of K. Gödel and L.E.J. Brouwer.]


Mindfulness meditation: deconditioning & changing view

In: Neuroscience, Consciousness, and Spirituality, Berlin: Springer, eds. H. Walach, S. Schmidt & W. Jonas, 2011.

[Insight meditation as deconditioning through disidentification, domesticating fear for not being in control.]


Conscious cognition as a discrete, deterministic, and universal Turing Machine process

Henk Barendregt & Antonino Raffone, In Alan Turing: his work and impact, Ed. B. Cooper & J. van Leeuwen, Elsevier, 2012.


The consciousness-model of De Bruijn

Presenting a model inspired by mathematical thinking that has penetrating elegance.

Henk Barendregt




Johan Barendregt


Fobias and related fears

In: Chapter XIII from De zielenmarkt, Over psychotherapie in alle ernst, Boom, Meppel, 1982.

Translation of Fobieen en verwante angsten, Boom, Meppel.

[Fobias seen as a way to use fear as a repersonalization after a dissociation.]




Henk Barendregt (papers in Dutch)


Een model voor aspecten van het emotionele bewustzijn

Refining the cover-up model with different affective colorings, 2000.


Bewustzijn: geloof en hypothese

In: Spectrum, Utrecht, 2006, 201-205. [Ideas on consciousness and hypotheses that may be verified or refuted.]

Ik geloof dat ..., maar heb geen bewijs. De belangrijkste denkers van nu over wat zij zeker menen te weten.


Mentaal evenwicht: labiel, stabiel en flexibel

In: Speling, september 58 (3), 2006, 29-34.

[Various forms of mental stability from early childhood towards purification.]


Het gevaarlijkste idee

Gevaarlijke ideeën - De belangrijkste denkers van nu over wat zij een gevaarlijk idee vinden.

In: Spectrum, 2007, 68-70.

[Consciousness with its impressions, feelings, thoughts and intentions does not have an owner, no central control.]


De roes voorbij

Roes, Prometheus / Bert Bakker (Ed. Hafid Bouazza.), 2008.

[Short version in Dutch of the cover-up model and the Abhidhamma Modes.]


Wetenschap en meditatie

Spirituele wetenschappers, Ambo, Amsterdam, 2009, 128-140.


Wiskunde, Mystiek en Natuurwetenschappen

Filosofie en Practijk, 2009.

[Explaining reasons for dephenomenologizing mathematics and neurorecording mystical states.]


Een model voor aspecten van het emotionele bewustzijn

In: Jaarboek 2010, Nederlandse Jung Vereniging.

[Hypothetische verfijning van het cover-up model.]


Het bewustzijnsmodel van N. G. de Bruijn [2012]

In: Nieuw Archief van de Wiskunde, te verschijnen.

[Eerst een model van het geheugen en van daaruit van het bewustzijn.]



Theoretical papers (last edited 21-12-2012 14:56:30 by HenkBarendregt)