Experimental Brain Research
September 1, 2018
James Head, William S Helton
39 citations
Researchers suggest links between mind-wandering and impaired processing of external task stimuli: mind-wandering results in perceptual decoupling. The primary methodology employed to investigate the effects of mind-wandering requires people to report their conscious state and then predicts prior behavior or neurophysiological responses using the person's self-report. Unfortunately, this method...
Philosophy and Cosmology
September 1, 2018
Syamala Hari
3 citations
In the ancient Hindu philosophy known as Vedanta, the mind -understood as an accumulation of memories, desires, emotions, thoughts, etc., including the self, that is, the 'I'-thought present in every conscious experience -is said to be a sense like any other physical sense: see, hear, touch, taste, or smell. The implication is that mind is also instrumental in creating our conscious experiences...
Neurological Sciences
September 1, 2018
Sandro Nannini
7 citations
Using an analysis of a voluntary action caused by a visual perception, I suggest that the three fundamental characteristics of this perception (being conscious, self-conscious, and provided with a content) are neurologically implemented by three distinct higher order properties of brain dynamics. This hypothesis allows me to sketch out a physicalist naturalist solution to the mind-body problem....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2018
Zeynep Aydın Sünbül, Asude Malkoç
3 citations
preprint
The aim of this study was to test a mindfulness model for flourishing along with mediating roles of self-compassion and valued living. Participants of the study were 327 undergraduate students (236 female, 91 male) with the mean age of 20.3 (SD=1.4). The results of path analysis yielded that mindfulness has positively direct relations with self-compassion and valued living. As well, the direct...
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
August 30, 2018
Warren Cariou
27 citations
This article examines Indigenous stories that reveal how the land communicates to humans through medicinal plants. The intention is to address a blind spot in new materialist theory, which Zoe Todd has criticized for its lack of attention to Indigenous forms and practices of relational materialism. The main focus of this essay is Indigenous narratives about the sacred plant sweetgrass (known as...
Philosophy Study
August 28, 2018
Florin Gaiseanu
17 citations
Information was a frequently used concept in many fields of investigation.However, this concept is still not really understood, when it is referred for instance to consciousness and its informational structure.In this paper it is followed the concept of information from philosophical to physics perspective, showing especially how this concept could be extended to matter in general and to the...
Philosophy Study
August 28, 2018
Xue-Jiao Zhang, Huili Wang, Dan Guo
Embodied cognition is an approach to cognition that departs from traditional Descartes’ mind-body dualism for its emphasis on bodily interactions with the environment. The paper firstly describes three distinctive features of embodied cognition. Furthermore, from the perspective of philosophical methodology, the paper outlines Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory and his contributions to the...
Modern Applied Science
August 27, 2018
S. Panahi, Farnaz Cheraghifar, Shima Talebian
This research considers painting and imagery in Zen as an art and its objective is to introduce the influence of Zen on visual arts. The term “Zen” is derived from Sanskrit and it means “thinking”. In China and India, Zen Buddhism is known as “Liberated Way of Life” and is strongly influenced by Taoism. It is said that Zen began with an allusion, as one day, instead of preaching, Buddha...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 27, 2018
Mladen Sormaz, Charlotte Murphy, Hao-ting Wang et al.
291 citations
Regions of transmodal cortex, in particular the default mode network (DMN), have historically been argued to serve functions unrelated to task performance, in part because of associations with naturally occurring periods of off-task thought. In contrast, contemporary views of the DMN suggest it plays an integrative role in cognition that emerges from its location at the top of a cortical...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 24, 2018
Yoram Gutfreund
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 24 August 2018Sec. Consciousness Research Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01537