Whether we are awake or asleep is believed to mark a sharp divide between the types of conscious states we undergo in either behavioural state. Consciousness in sleep is often equated with dreaming and thought to be characteristically different from waking consciousness. Conversely, recent research shows that we spend a substantial amount of our waking lives mind wandering, or lost in...
Routledge eBooksDecember 2, 2020Sharon Olivier, Frederick Hölscher, Colin Charles Williams
Intuition is somewhat like a black cat in a dark room. This chapter explains how intuition works and why it is of critical importance to leaders in the twenty-first century. It distinguishes between head (thinking), heart (feeling and emotional) and hands (action) capabilities enabled by intuitive intelligence. The intuitive leaders are called the Sensors because they have their ‘antennae’...
This paper presents two experiments in which an experimental paradigm developed to examine the efficacy of filtering mechanisms of attention, Latent Inhibition (LI), was adapted to include a psi component. LI assesses the processing of irrelevant stimuli, thus we tested whether a psi-stimulus might be processed akin to the irrelevant stimulus. Because the processing of the irrelevant stimulus...
Lucid dreaming is being conscious and aware while dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a form of meta-consciousness and reflective practice that calls in to question habitual behavior, fixed perceptions, core beliefs, and presuppositions. From an epistemological perspective, lucid dreaming could be considered as a way of knowing. The practice of lucid dreaming ultimately leads to the practice of lucid...
The presence of dreams in human sleep, especially in REM sleep, and the detection of physiologically similar states in mammals has led many to ponder whether animals experience similar sleep mentation. Recent advances in our understanding of the anatomical and physiological correlates of sleep stages, and thus dreaming, allow a better understanding of the possibility of dream mentation in...
Despite the pervasiveness of hallucination, the phenomenon of demonstrative reference to such phenomena has received scant attention in the philosophy of language literature. This chapter begins by introducing some terminology after which the author discusses the phenomenon of hypnagogia and benign hallucinations more generally. It presents a puzzle raised by demonstrative reference to such...
The article proves that German expressionist poetry was influenced by the secularization of consciousness in the West-European culture. It was reflected not only in the expressionist philosophy but also in the form of poems that often disclosed the methods of contrafactum and grotesque employed. Secularization itself has become a long-term process that originated already at the Age of...
OBJECTIVE: -that emerges from sleep research and theoretical neurobiology-can be applied to pathophysiology and psychopathology in psychiatry. METHODS: Our starting point is that the mind and brain are emergent aspects of the same (neuronal) dynamics; namely, the brain-mind. Our endpoint is that synaptic dysconnection syndromes inherit the same dual aspect; namely, aberrant inference or belief...
Scientific ReportsNovember 5, 2020D M L De Boer, Patrick Johnston, Graham Kerr et al.
Recent theories suggest that self-consciousness, in its most elementary form, is functionally disconnected from the phenomenal body. Patients with psychosis frequently misattribute their thoughts and actions to external sources; and in certain out-of-body experiences, lucid states, and dreams body-ownership is absent but self-identification is preserved. To explain these unusual experiences, we...
Alexithymia is a disorder, which has a significant impact on one’s ability to have an insight into their own emotional states, making it impossible to identify and understand the information coming from experienced emotions. Alexithymia consists of the following symptoms: difficulty in identifying and verbalizing emotions, difficulty in distinguishing between emotions and the bodily sensations,...