Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
October 9, 2018
Roderik J S Gerritsen, G. Band
327 citations
Contemplative practices, such as meditation and yoga, are increasingly popular among the general public and as topics of research. Beneficial effects associated with these practices have been found on physical health, mental health and cognitive performance. However, studies and theories that clarify the underlying mechanisms are lacking or scarce. This theoretical review aims to address and...
Routledge eBooks
October 8, 2018
Jennifer Church
Ownership of a body by a self is not possible without a distinction between self and body, for simply being a (human) body does not suffice for being a person or a self. But neither is a person or a self an independent entity that merely uses the body. One must understand the self as constituted by certain interrelations between the psychological states of a body, inter-relations that...
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October 8, 2018
Antonio Alberto Semi
Consciousness has a strange position in the field of psychoanalysis. Consciousness is a source of constant questions for those dealing with psychic activities. The discovery of the unconscious must obviously be differentiated from the invention of the unconscious, which is that complex methodological structure that allowed Sigmund Freud to construct theoretical models of the unconscious. The...
The World According to Quantum Mechanics
October 8, 2018
F. Beck
The first issue of JCS published an interview with Roger Penrose on his recent book Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (Clark, 1994). In it Professor Penrose, among other subjects, presented his views on the role of quantum mechanics on our way towards a better understanding of brain functioning and its relation to consciousness. In this note we comment on...
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
October 8, 2018
D. Hobbs
4 citations
ABSTRACT One long-running conundrum in Husserlian phenomenology revolves around the question of the identity of what Husserl calls the transcendental ego, a mysterious figure that he identifies as the subject of a genuinely transcendental phenomenology. In dialogue with both Husserl and his assistant and collaborator Eugen Fink (as well as recent commentary), I attempt in this article to give a...
Theology and Science
October 6, 2018
J. Leidenhag
ABSTRACT Panpsychism, whereby mentality is considered fundamental within the natural world, does not appear prima facie to be a friend to with either natural science or Christian theology. This article challenges this first impression. Within the science and theology dialogue, panpsychism has been a central component of Process theologians’ efforts to integrate these disciplines into a larger...
October 5, 2018
A. Sikder, F. Yang, R. Schafer et al.
Objectives: Due to psychological and physical strain, family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are at high risk for depression and stress related disorders. We investigated the feasibility of a mobile application (App) intervention delivering Mentalizing Imagery Therapy (MIT), which incorporates guided imagery and mindfulness, to facilitate self-regulation...
International Journal of Dream Research
October 5, 2018
Gordon G. Globus
2 citations
Abstract: In waking Existenz (pace Heidegger) we always find ourselves already thrown amidst the world, whereas in lucid dream Existenz there is this remarkable difference: we actually throw the world. The operation of intentionality—the brain’s self-tuning capability—is discussed with respect to its role in lucid world throwing. The ability to throw authentic worlds while lucidly dreaming...
Adaptive Behavior
October 5, 2018
Juan M. Loaiza
20 citations
This article proposes the convergence between enactivism, an anthropological view of social life, and a philosophy of ethic of care. The main conceptual proposal is the extension of the notion of concern, present in the enactive philosophy, into the domain of social participation. The proposal introduces the notion that care in social life corresponds to a richer version of the basic living...
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October 4, 2018
Eugene V. Subbotsky
This chapter argues that consciousness is the ability to simultaneously live in two types of reality: perceived everyday reality and invisible magical reality. At some point around 100,000 years ago, humans became aware of the inevitability of personal death and developed the idea of an afterlife – the reality in which the spirits of dead ancestors dwell. They also discovered that the spirits...