7 papers in the library · 78 citations · publishing 2001-2018
Psychology Press eBooks October 24, 2018 Arthur M. Arkin
Most observers state or imply that sleep-talking is a frequent occurrence in the general “normal” population, and especially so in children, adolescents, and young adults. Cameron observed that sleep-talking was ubiquitous among the barracks of U. S. troops in the Persian Gulf command in World War II—a setting with unusually severe stress. The highest incidence of sleep-talking was produced by...
Psychology Press eBooks October 24, 2018 Arthur M. Arkin
A variety of conceptualizations and commentary as to the nature of sleep-talking are to be found mostly in diffuse and dispersed fragments in the clinical-anecdotal literature. People do not dream or sleep-talk unless something has been left awakened in their psychic activities during sleep, and the more that sleep approaches waking by imperceptible degrees, the more favourable are the...
Psychology Press eBooks October 24, 2018 Arthur M. Arkin
A typical feature of night terror and daytime hypersomnia episodes, sequellae of experimental sleep deprivation, and frequently of REM narcolepsy-cataplexy events is the occurrence of spontaneous vocalization with and without speech, which appears to reflect internal experience rather than external stimuli, and for which there are strong amnestic tendencies. It is therefore of interest to...
Psychology Press eBooks January 17, 2018 Henry Pierce Stapp 5 citations
Physical scientists were driven during the late twenties to abandon a fundamental idea that had reigned since the time of Issac Newton. To obtain a rationally coherent and practically useful theory of all physical phenomena they turned to a pragmatic approach. The core idea was that the basic physical theory was no longer directly about a physical world that was conceived to exists apart from...
Psychology Press eBooks November 7, 2016 Christopher C. French 13 citations
A good case can be made that human beings are naturally intuitive dualists. For a number of reasons, we find it hard to believe that our subjective self-awareness is nothing more than complex patterns of neural activity and easy to believe, along with the great mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, that mind-stuff is irreducibly different to matter. This dualist position raises as many...
Psychology Press eBooks July 24, 2013 60 citations
This chapter intends to examine existing relationships between positive emotional states, self-transcendence, spirituality, and religion. It will be divided into three parts. The fi rst two parts will document proper conditions to dissolve rigid boundaries between the self and the outer world, and thus to favor the emergence of self-transcendence. The fi rst part will focus on the effect of...
Psychology Press eBooks September 1, 2001 Ron Sun
I will first critique various explanations of consciousness, especially those embodied by existing computational models. I will then explore the issue of the functional roles of consciousness and examine various views in this regard, in relation to the explanation of consciousness. In these examinations, I will argue in favor of the explanation based on the distinction between localist...