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A Basic Architecture of an Autonomous Adaptive System With Conscious-Like Function for a Humanoid Robot

Frontiers in Robotics and AI April 4, 2018 Yasuo Kinouchi, Kenneth James Mackin 19 citations

In developing a humanoid robot, there are two major objectives. One is developing a physical robot having body, hands, and feet resembling those of human beings and being able to similarly control them. The other is to develop a control system that works similarly to our brain, to feel, think, act, and learn like ours. In this article, an architecture of a control system with a brain-oriented...

Greater mindful eating practice is associated with better reversal learning

Scientific Reports April 3, 2018 Lieneke Katharina Janssen, Iris Duif, Ilke van Loon et al. 10 citations

Abstract Mindfulness-based interventions are thought to reduce compulsive behavior such as overeating by promoting behavioral flexibility. Here the main aim was to provide support for mindfulness-mediated improvements in reversal learning, a direct measure of behavioral flexibility. We investigated whether an 8-week mindful eating intervention improved outcome-based reversal learning relative...

Remarks on Gallagher’s Enactivist Philosophy of Nature

Australasian Philosophical Review April 3, 2018 David Macarthur 2 citations

Shaun Gallagher’s [2019] ‘Rethinking Nature’ is an attempt to make conceptual space for the relevance of the phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, etc., to cognitive scientific explanation within an embodied enactivist approach to cognition. Since cognitive science currently presupposes orthodox scientific naturalism—for which nature is nothing over and above the objective...

Minding Nature: Gallagher and the Relevance of Phenomenology to Cognitive Science

Australasian Philosophical Review April 3, 2018 María Jimena Clavel Vázquez, Michael A. Wheeler 3 citations

In ‘Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science’, Gallagher [2019 Gallagher, Shaun 2019. Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science, Australasian Philosophical Review 2/2: 125–37. [Google Scholar]] sets out to overcome resistance to the idea that phenomenology is relevant to cognitive science. He argues that the relevance in question...

Investigating consciousness in the sleep laboratory – an interdisciplinary perspective on lucid dreaming

April 3, 2018 Kristoffer Appel, Gordon Pipa, Martin Dresler

During dreaming, we experience a wake-like hallucinatory reality, however with restricted reflective abilities: in the face of a bizarre dream environment, we do not realize that we are actually dreaming. In contrast, during the rare phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the dreamer gains insight into the current state of mind while staying asleep. This metacognitive insight often enables the dreamer...

Effectiveness Of Yoga As Mind-Body Exercise Over Memory, Perceived Stress And Mental Health.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 2, 2018 Vishnu D Udhan, Sharadchandra Wankhede, Pramod Shinde. preprint

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Advancement in the world has brought various health concerns in human life. One of the major concerns is psychological stress and therefore mental disorders. Yoga is applied as an alternative approach to overcome the physical & mental issues. Present study was conducted to find the effect of 6 months regular yoga practice (Asanas, Pranayama and Meditation) on Memory,...

Mysticism’s Threat to Doctrine

English language notes April 1, 2018 Robert O. Pasnau

I am a historian of philosophy and theology, which is to say that the authors I work on are almost exclusively those who make doctrine. Moreover, a great deal of my work has been focused on Thomas Aquinas, the doctrine maker extraordinaire of the later Middle Ages. From that vantage point, it is interesting to consider the question of whether mysticism, by its nature, must necessarily conflict...

Changing Behavior and Renewing the Brain

Christian Education Journal Research on Educational Ministry April 1, 2018 Mark A. Maddix, Glena L. Andrews 3 citations

The field of neuroscience and religion continues to explode as researchers seek to understand religious experiences in the brain. Studies in religious experience, called neurotheology, attempt to draw conclusions about the truth of these religious experiences from the study of biological brain events. Given the substantial research on the science of religion, this article explores the...

Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology: A Systematic Approach to Creating Permanent World Peace

Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute April 1, 2018 Bevan Morris

Wars in the Middle East and conflicts throughout world history display the failure of government leaders to achieve peace, either at the negotiation table or on the battlefield. It is a failure that will continue without end if the existing methods of attempting to create peace are the only ones tried. Indeed, government leaders have repeatedly ignored knowledge of a peace-creating technology...

I can feel my heartbeat: Dancers have increased interoceptive accuracy.

Psychophysiology April 2018 Julia F Christensen, Sebastian B Gaigg, Beatriz Calvo-Merino

Interoception is the process of perceiving afferent signals arising from within the body including heart rate (HR), gastric signals, etc., and has been described as a mechanism crucially involved in the creation of self-awareness and selfhood. The heartbeat perception task is a tool to measure individuals' interoceptive accuracy (IAcc). IAcc correlates positively with measures of self-awareness...

DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13008 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Dance Heartbeat perception Interoceptive accuracy +1