12 papers in the library · 67 citations · publishing 2009-2026
IGI Global eBooks September 22, 2026 Srishti Muralidharan, Navya Charan
Anguish represents a profound form of human suffering that extends beyond ordinary emotional distress and engages interconnected neurobiological, cognitive and physiological systems. This chapter conceptualizes anguish as an active, embodied state characterised by persistent emotional arousal, self-referential processing, autonomic dysregulation, and meaning-making efforts. Drawing on...
IGI Global eBooks March 13, 2025 K.Suresh Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Davuluri, Lakshman Kumar Kanulla et al. 2 citations
Historical stories and contemporary clinical studies have shown substantial promise for the therapeutic use of psychedelics for the treatment of mood disorders such as depression. Comp360 is COMPASS Pathways' unique synthetic formulation of psilocybin. A recent randomised double-blind phase-II b research showed that it was safe and effective for those with treatment-resistant depression. The...
IGI Global eBooks October 7, 2022 Ryan Murdoch
Brain-computer interfacing (BCI), the ability to interact with software and technology with our thoughts and feelings, presents an exciting new frontier for serious games and learning. This chapter outlines an approach to incorporating real-time brain-monitoring in educational games. Both outlining and suggesting how technically this can be achieved using affordable and accessible “off the...
IGI Global eBooks 2021 Aleksandar Stojanović, Ana Starčević
The quantum mind or quantum consciousness group of hypotheses propose that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. Quantum theory is used to insert models of cognition that target to be more innovative than models based on traditional classical probability theory, which includes cognitive modeling phenomena in science. At the moment we can say that there is no clearly defined...
IGI Global eBooks May 24, 2011 Stan Franklin 18 citations
Here we describe an architecture for an autonomous software agent designed to model a broad spectrum of human cognitive and affective functioning. In addition to featuring “consciousness,” the architecture accommodates perception, several forms of memory, emotions, action-selection, deliberation, ersatz language generation, several forms of learning, and metacognition. One such software agent,...
IGI Global eBooks May 24, 2011 Pentti O. A. Haikonen 4 citations
The following fundamental issues of artificial minds and conscious machines are considered here: representation and symbolic processing of information with meaning and significance in the human sense; the perception process; a neural cognitive architecture; system reactions and emotions; consciousness in the machine; and artificial minds as a content-level phenomenon. Solutions are proposed for...
IGI Global eBooks January 18, 2011 David Casacuberta, Saray Ayala, Jordi Vallverdu 7 citations
After several decades of success in different areas and numerous effective applications, algorithmic Artificial Intelligence has revealed its limitations. If in our quest for artificial intelligence we want to understand natural forms of intelligence, we need to shift/move from platform-free algorithms to embodied and embedded agents. Under the embodied perspective, intelligence is not so much...
IGI Global eBooks January 18, 2011 Roberto Poli 1 citation
The main thesis defended by this paper is the thesis of the autonomy – i.e., non-reducibility -- of the phenomenic level of analysis of the psyche. The thesis will be defended by exploiting four main ideas: (1) the theory of levels of reality, (2) the distinction between act and object of presentation, (3) the structure of internal time, and (4) the distinction between egological and non...
IGI Global eBooks January 18, 2011 John G. Taylor
Attention is analyzed as the superior control system in the brain from an engineering point of view, with support for this from the way attention is presently being understood by brain science. Such an engineering- control framework allows an understanding of how the complex networks observed in the brain during various cognitive tasks can begin to be functionally decomposed. A machine version...
IGI Global eBooks May 26, 2010 Paul R. Smart, Paula C. Engelbrecht, Dave Braines et al. 17 citations
Whereas the traditional view in cognitive science has been to view mind and cognition as something that is the result of essentially inner, neural processes, the extended cognition perspective claims that at least some human mental states and processes stem from complex webs of causal influence involving extra-neural resources, most notably the resources of our social and technological...
IGI Global eBooks 2010 David Casacuberta, Saray Ayala, Jordi Vallverdu 10 citations
After several decades of success in different areas and numerous effective applications, algorithmic Artificial Intelligence has revealed its limitations. If in our quest for artificial intelligence we want to understand natural forms of intelligence, we need to shift/move from platform-free algorithms to embodied and embedded agents. Under the embodied perspective, intelligence is not so much...
IGI Global eBooks 2009 Bruce J. Maclennan 8 citations
This chapter addresses the “Hard Problem” of consciousness in the context of robot emotions. The Hard Problem, as defined by Chalmers, refers to the task of explaining the relation between conscious experience and the physical processes associated with it. For example, a robot can act afraid, but could it feel fear? Using protophenomenal analysis, which reduces conscious experience to its...