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Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind December 23, 2021 John Heil
This chapter distinguishes two species of functionalism: what Ned Block called, ‘functional specifier functionalism’ (now often called ‘realizer functionalism’) and ‘functional identity functionalism’ (now often called ‘role functionalism’). The first species of functionalism was defended by Armstrong and by David Lewis, and remains the dominant strain in Australian philosophy of mind. The...
December 23, 2021
Bringing together some of the world’s leading philosophers of mind as well as some exciting emerging philosophers, this volume examines origins, impacts, and contemporary relevance of one of the twentieth century’s most important books on the philosophy of mind, D. M. Armstrong’s A Materialist Theory of the Mind, first published in 1968.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution December 20, 2021 Patrick Fraser, Ricard Sole, Gemma de Las Cuevas
Ordinary computing machines prohibit self-reference because it leads to logical inconsistencies and undecidability. In contrast, the human mind can understand self-referential statements without necessitating physically impossible brain states. Why can the brain make sense of self-reference? Here, we address this question by defining the Strange Loop Model, which features causal feedback...
Frontiers in Psychology December 20, 2021 James W. Moore
An important question in consciousness research concerns its origins. In Julian Jaynes' book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, he suggests that consciousness arose rather recently in human history, sometime between the composition of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Although Jaynes' work as a theory of consciousness has achieved a great deal of attention (and indeed...
Political anthropological research on international social sciences December 17, 2021 Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg 6 citations
Abstract Contemplation, or the practice of sitting still to ‘stop and see’, can expand one’s embodied awareness. This expanded awareness resembles ethnographic sensibility, a disposition practiced by researchers to generate an understanding of the ‘field’. My fieldwork on contemplative activism involves a double thoughtful observation: once as contemplation, and once as ethnographic...
Frontiers in Psychology December 17, 2021 P. S. Swathi, Raghavendra Bhat, Apar Avinash Saoji
Background and Objective: Attention and memory are essential aspects of cognitive health. Yogasanas, pranayama, and meditation have shown to improve cognitive functions. There has been no assessment of Trataka (yogic visual concentration) on working or on spatial memory. The present study was planned to assess the immediate effects of Trataka and of eye exercise sessions on the Corsi-block...
Routledge eBooks December 16, 2021 Roy Bailey
Meditating is a proven and practical approach to effective stress management. It exercises the mind and allows the person to engage in ‘detached contemplation’ of an object or phrase. All meditation requires the meditator to participate in ‘dwelling on’ on the subject of contemplation. The visual form of meditation, that is, concentrating on an image, is called ‘yantra’ meditation. When a...
Journal of the American Oriental Society December 16, 2021 Patrick McAllister
Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive- Scientific Philosophy of Mind. By Dan Arnold. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+ 311. $50.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews December 16, 2021 Igor Elman, Amanda C. Pustilnik, David Borsook 26 citations
Basic pain research has shed light on key cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying nociceptive and phenomenological aspects of pain. Despite these advances, we still yearn for the discovery of novel therapeutic strategies to address the unmet needs of about 70 % of chronic neuropathic pain patients whose pain fails to respond to opioids as well as to other conventional analgesic agents....
Journal of Psychedelic Studies December 15, 2021 Malin V. Uthaug, Natasha L. Mason, Martha N. Havenith et al. 15 citations
Abstract Background Holotropic breathwork (Grof ® Breathwork), was developed by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof as a ‘non-drug’ alternative technique to evoke altered states of consciousness (ASC). Interestingly, although HBW has been anecdotally reported to evoke experiences and mental health effects corresponding to those of psychedelic substances, the scientific literature on the matter is...