Comparative and Continental Philosophy
January 2, 2016
David Storey
In this essay, I detail the mainsprings of Evan Thompson's creative synthesis of Indian philosophy, Western phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience—what he calls “contemplative neuroscience”—and sketch some of his key arguments. I focus on his method of “neurophenomenology” and the connections among his understanding of three key concepts: consciousness, dreaming, and the link...
2016
Patrick Mcnamara
A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion. Across time and around the world, billions of people...
Philosophy East and West
2016
Owen Flanagan
Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being Owen Flanagan (bio) Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually...
Frontiers in Psychology
2016
Jim Hopkins
The main concepts of the free energy (FE) neuroscience developed by Karl Friston and colleagues parallel those of Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology. In Hobson et al. (2014) these include an innate virtual reality generator that produces the fictive prior beliefs that Freud described as the primary process. This enables Friston's account to encompass a unified treatment-a complexity...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2016
Helene Sophrin Porte
AbstractMorsella et al. argue convincingly that consciousness is for adaptive voluntary action. What, then, is consciousness in a dream for? Two prior questions present themselves. In a dream, how do contents get into the conscious field? What are the properties of consciousness in a dream?
Journal of physiology, Paris
December 2015
Anita Beck, Gábor Fábián, Pál Fejérdy et al.
Long-term photo-acoustic stimulation is used for the induction of altered states of consciousness for both therapeutic and experimental purposes. Long-term photo-acoustic stimulation also leads to changes in the composition of saliva which have a key contribution to the efficiency of this technique in easing mucosal symptoms of oral psychosomatic patients. The aim of this study is to find out...
Cartographica
December 1, 2015
Cristina M. Iosifescu Enescu, Jacques Montangero, Lorenz Hurni
The objective of dream cartography is to map dream content, that is, to develop new visualization methods and adapt existing ones as graphical means for an explorative dream analysis. We aim at modelling (i.e., disentangling), documenting, reuniting, and graphically depicting the dream space and other relevant psychological aspects of dreams in a meaningful but abstracted way. In this article...
Arrow@dit
October 27, 2015
Dagmar Drabent
This dissertation reconstructs firstly the dreamlikeness which determines Walser’s two Berlin novels Geschwister Tanner and Jakob von Gunten, and secondly a poetology of the denoted dream texts (representations of dreams) within these novels. The first part of this study is dedicated to the exploration of the phenomenon of dreamlikeness by establishing a matrix which is determined by the...
Journal of literature and art studies
October 22, 2015
Robin McAllister
An observer at Iguazu Falls tries to make sense of the inexpressible natural wonder through the texts of Jorge Luis Borges's essays and poems.Borges's paradoxes of time, immortality, and eternity give meaning to the vision, while the natural wonder gives substance to those idealist concepts derived from Berkeley.As a reader of Borges's fictions, I yield up my personal identity to an impersonal...
Columbia University Press eBooks
October 6, 2015
Monika Renz, Mark Kyburz, John L. Peck
The many metaphors used by the dying are interpreted as an analogical symbolic language from our dream-consciousness (C.G. Jung, St.Grof), in contradiction to our everyday logical rational thinking and waking consciousness. Metaphors are not accidental, and important metaphors of dying are listed according to the three stages of transition.