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eLearn July 29, 2021 Clark Quinn
Annie Murphy Paul's new book, "The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain," covers emerging research that extends our understanding of thinking beyond the typical view of "mind in the brain." Illustrated with stories, this book unpacks new recognitions, and provides the implications for the design of learning and instruction.
The Educational Review USA July 27, 2021 Rehana Anwer, Muhammad Arfan Lodhi, S. Anam 1 citation
The work addresses the mystical elements in the selected poems of W. B. Yeats and Lal Shabaz Qalander. For this purpose, the concept of mysticism and Sufism was understood in the light of different material taken from books, journals and articles. After thorough study of concerned literature, the selected poems were analyzed on the mystic pattern as suggested by Elvyn Underhill’s book on the...
Brain Sciences July 25, 2021 Alicja Różyk-myrta, Andrzej Brodziak, Małgorzata Muc-Wierzgoń 18 citations
The known theories discussing the essence of consciousness have been recently updated. This prompts an attempt to integrate these explanations concerning several distinct components of the consciousness phenomenon such as the ego, and qualia perceptions. Therefore, it is useful to consider the latest publications on the 'Orch OR' and 'cemi' theories, which assume that quantum processing occurs...
Psychiatric News July 22, 2021 Nick Zagorski
Positive findings from a phase 3 trial may have brought MDMA-assisted therapy closer to FDA approval, but experts remain unclear about how long the effects of the therapy might last. When Charles Raison, M. D. , a professor of psychiatry and the Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy Minds, Children & Families at the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the scientific board at the...
World Soul July 22, 2021 Valia Allori
Quantum mechanics is a groundbreaking theory: it not only is extraordinarily empirically adequate but also is claimed to having shattered the classical paradigm of understanding the observer-observed distinction as well as the part-whole relation. This, together with other quantum features, has been taken to suggest that quantum theory can help one understand the mind-body relation in a unique...
July 21, 2021 Mattia Riccardi
Abstract This chapter works out some of the key features of the notion of consciousness usually discussed by Nietzsche (most notably, in aphorism 354 of The Gay Science). Given such features (which include reflexivity, dependence on language and communication, and higher-order nature), it is argued that this notion of consciousness corresponds to reflective consciousness, i.e. the capacity for...
TheoLogica July 21, 2021 Mostyn Jones, Eric LaRock
Nancey Murphy argues that God created us as physical beings without immortal souls. She supports this Christian physicalism by arguing that neuroscience can better explain minds in terms of physical information processing than dualists can in problematic nonphysical terms. We reply that Murphy overestimates neuroscience and underestimates dualism. She doesn’t show how neuroscience can explain...
Neuroscience Insights July 20, 2021 Vladan Bajic, Natasa Misic, Ivana Stankovic et al.
Does Alzheimer Disease show a decline in cognitive functions that relate to the awareness of external reality? In this paper, we will propose a perspective that patients with increasing symptoms of AD show a change in the awareness of subjective versus objective representative axis of reality thus consequently move to a more internal like perception of reality. This paradigm shift suggests that...
Preventive Medicine Reports July 19, 2021 Chih-Hsiang Yang, Jonathan G. Hakun, Nelson Roque et al.
Mindfulness practice and walking have been linked individually to sustain cognition in older adults. This early-phase study aimed to establish proof-of-concept by evaluating whether an intervention that integrates light-intensity walking with mindfulness practices shows promising signs of improving cognition in older adults. Participants (N = 25, Mage = 72.4 ± 6.45) were community-dwelling...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences July 19, 2021 Tobias Schlicht, Krzysztof Dołęga
The predictive processing framework has gained significant popularity across disciplines investigating the mind and brain. In this article we critically examine two of the recently made claims about the kind of headway that the framework can make in the neuroscientific and philosophical investigation of consciousness. Firstly, we argue that predictive processing is unlikely to yield significant...