Abstract Electroencephalograph (EEG) data provide insight into the interconnections and relationships between various cognitive states and their corresponding brain dynamics, by demonstrating dynamic connections between brain regions at different frequency bands. While sensory input tends to stimulate neural activity in different frequency bands, peaceful states of being and self-induced...
The psychotic disorders pose the problem of rationality and normality in thought and the way in which we should understand them. The norms governing thought are determined in the intersubjective context in which mental content is defined, and they create cognitive skills in an individual that are used in attunement to the world and judgements about oneself. That analysis informs an...
Consciousness and its relation to the unconscious mind have long been debated in philosophy. I develop the thesis that consciousness and its contents reflect the highest elaboration of a set of abilities to respond to the environment realized in more primitive organisms and brain circuits. The contents of the states lesser than consciousness are, however, intrinsically dubious and indeterminate...