Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
August 5, 2022
Ashok D B Vaidya, Rama Vaidya
There is a worldwide interest in yoga for wellness, mind-body medicine, research in consciousness, prevention/management of life-style disorders and spiritual quest for self-realization. An important question is "Is yoga a therapy or a lifestyle?" However, the universe of yoga has many sets and subsets, evolved over millennia, by great yogis and acharyas. The proliferation of the names of yoga,...
Communicative & Integrative Biology
August 5, 2022
Andrew Lohrey, Bruce Boreham
1 citation
We present a general discussion concerning the wholeness of what has been called infinite awareness, but here is called Omni-local consciousness. This model of consciousness has an interconnecting structure that has both local and nonlocal features, that is, the model contains local conscious human minds and locates them within an infinite (Omni) background context of consciousness. This...
Psyke & Logos
August 4, 2022
Rodney M.J. Cotterill
Exploitation of an unconscious veto mechanism, mediated by a specific cortical circuit, and made possible by an adequate very-short-term memory span, paradoxically requires conscious awareness. Part of the same circuit, interacting with other brain components, permits internal simulations of the body's interactions with the environment, thereby providing the basis of mind. *) Presented on 21...
Artificial Life
August 4, 2022
Maki Sato, Jonathan Mckinney
6 citations
Dualisms are pervasive. The divisions between the rational mind, the physical body, and the external natural world have set the stage for the successes and failures of contemporary cognitive science and artificial intelligence.1 Advanced machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been developed to draw art and compose music. Many take these facts as calls for a radical...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 3, 2022
Enara García, Iñigo R. Arandia
18 citations
As an alternative to linear and unidimensional perspectives focused mainly on either organic or psychological processes, the enactive approach to life and mind—a branch of 4-E (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) cognitive theories—offers an integrative framework to study mental disorders that encompasses and articulates organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective dimensions of embodiment....
Deutsche Heilpraktiker-Zeitschrift
August 1, 2022
Matthias Ennenbach
Summary Immer mehr Menschen öffnen sich für die östliche Philosophie und Spiritualität und wünschen sich die Aufnahme dieses universellen Bezuges und entsprechender Methoden in die psychotherapeutische Behandlung. Die buddhistische Psychotherapie geht davon aus, dass Probleme sehr stark durch unseren Verstand mitgestaltet werden, und nutzt – im Anschluss an die allen Verfahren gemeinsame...
Pharos Journal of Theology
August 1, 2022
Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel
The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background. The normative form of Hesychasm, referred to here, is that described briefly by St. Gregory Palamas. In this article, two constituents, presented by him as essential,...
August 1, 2022
Megan E. Kelly
Time perception is a fundamental aspect of consciousness related to mental health. One cognitive state related to time perception is mind wandering (MW), defined as having thoughts unrelated to the current task. Little research has directly assessed the relationship between these two constructs, despite the overlap in clinical significance and the shared importance of attention for healthy...
PLoS Computational Biology
August 2022
Nadav Amir, Naftali Tishby, Israel Nelken
The attentional blink (AB) effect is the reduced probability of reporting a second target (T2) that appears shortly after a first one (T1) within a rapidly presented sequence of distractors. The AB effect has been shown to be reduced following intensive mental training in the form of mindfulness meditation, with a corresponding reduction in T1-evoked P3b brain potentials. However, the...
L'Encephale
August 1, 2022
Hugo Bottemanne, Y Longuet, Christophe Gauld
The question of how the mind works is at the heart of cognitive science. It aims to understand and explain the complex processes underlying perception, decision-making and learning, three fundamental areas of cognition. Bayesian Brain Theory, a computational approach derived from the principles of Predictive Processing (PP), offers a mechanistic and mathematical formulation of these cognitive...