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Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Paul Marcus
An "intraworldly mysticism" is also a part of engaging the Infinite, of glimpsing immortality. To experience in oneself the love and joy of communing with the Infinite, that is, a sense of infinite being, knowledge, and bliss, requires a state of mind that nurtures the transcendent urge through compassion. Whether one calls them selfish cravings, inordinate needs, or infantile narcissism,...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand March 21, 2018 Seán Manning
The second in a series on secularism in psychotherapy, this article reprises the idea that paranormal, religious, spiritual or visionary experience is an essential quality of the human mind, and rather than being minimised as merely neurological events or interpreted, for instance as regression, can be given a position of meaning and importance. A distinction is made between the description of...
Mindfulness March 19, 2018 Joon Hwan Jang, Jae‐Hun Kim, Je-Yeon Yun et al. 31 citations
The majority of meditation involves focusing attention on internal events or sensations and becoming aware of emotions. The insula cortex, through a functional connection with the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions, plays a key role in integrating external sensory information with internal bodily state signals and emotional awareness. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine...
March 15, 2018 Paavo Pylkkänen 9 citations
This chapter provides a brief historical introduction to quantum theory, and shows that the theory opens up some radically new ways of thinking about the place of mind and consciousness in nature. Quantum theory is all about learning, on the basis of scientific experiments, to question the "obvious" truths about the nature of the physical world and to come up with more coherent alternatives....
March 15, 2018 Erik Myin, Victor Loughlin 14 citations
This chapter discusses the sensorimotor thesis that experience is something we do, and explores how it helps to deal with the philosophical problem of consciousness. In Mind-Life Continuity (MLC) Enactivism, it has been argued that consciousness can occur only when and where the organization of life is present. "Enactivism" is a term that encompasses a wide variety of approaches to mind and...
Synthese March 15, 2018 Konrad Werner 37 citations
The paper discusses the concept of the cognitive niche and distinguishes the latter from the metabolic niche. By using these posits I unpack certain ideas that are crucial for the enactivist movement, especially for its original formulation proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosh. Drawing on the ontology of location, boundaries, and parthood, I argue that enacting the world can be seen as the...
March 15, 2018 Christian Coseru 3 citations
This chapter considers the sheer amount of literature associated with the exploration of consciousness in Indian philosophy. It focuses on a range of methodological and conceptual issues, drawing on three main sources: the naturalist theories of mind of Nyaya and Vaisesika, the mainly phenomenological accounts of mental activity and consciousness of Abhidharma and Yogacara Buddhism, and the...
March 15, 2018 Larry M. Jorgensen 21 citations
The search for consciousness in Ancient Greek philosophical texts may well be a fool&s;s errand. However, other scholars have noted some overlapping concepts or concerns in Ancient Greek texts, which—with the necessary translation—can be seen as in the family of issues related to consciousness. A naturalized theory is a theory that has no irresolvable "mysteries"—mysteries like those presented...
March 15, 2018 Chad Gonnerman 2 citations
This chapter reviews research in the rapidly growing corner of the experimental philosophy of mind. A. I. Goldman and M. McGrath outline two ways of using cognitive science in epistemology. There are applications to the epistemic subject and applications to the epistemic attributor . One work that has shaped the experimental philosophy of consciousness is H. M. Gray, K. Gray, and D. Wegner....
Prometeus March 14, 2018 César Fernando Meurer
Resenha deHUTTO, Daniel; MYIN, Erik. Remembering. In: HUTTO, D.; MYIN, E. Evolving enactivism: basic minds meet content. Cambridge, MA; London: The MIT Press, 2017. p. 203-232. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036115.003.0009