Scientific Reports
April 26, 2018
Andrea Piarulli, Andrea Zaccaro, Marco Laurino et al.
The coupling between respiration and neural activity within olfactory areas and hippocampus has recently been unambiguously demonstrated, its neurophysiological basis sustained by the well-assessed mechanical sensitivity of the olfactory epithelium. We herein hypothesize that this coupling reverberates to the whole brain, possibly modulating the subject's behavior and state of consciousness....
Routledge eBooks
April 24, 2018
Mark Solms, Oliver Hugh Turnbull
7 citations
Sigmund Freud was one of the first to claim that most of our mental life operates unconsciously and that consciousness is merely a property of one part of the mind. Many cognitive scientists argue that consciousness is of very little importance in mental life and that the vast bulk of our mental operations are performed without consciousness. Consciousness thus consists of feelings projected...
Yale University Press eBooks
April 24, 2018
Jason Tougaw
The introduction examines contemporary debates in neuroscience and the philosophy of mind, demonstrating the conceptual impasses inevitable when writers adopt extreme rhetorical positions about the so-called “cerebral subject”—for example, “you are your brain” or “you are not your brain.” Literary works, literary criticism, and the neurohumanities respond to such debates by eschewing reductive...
April 24, 2018
Mark Solms, Oliver Hugh Turnbull
1 citation
This chapter examines the relationship between mind and brain in general. It suggests that the classical mind-body problem has been redefined by cognitive scientists as the problem of consciousness. The mind-body problem is a philosophical conundrum that dates back to classical antiquity, and probably beyond. David Chalmers—one of the philosophers participating in the interdisciplinary field of...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 24, 2018
Karl Friston
Is self-consciousness necessary for consciousness? The answer is yes. So there you have it—the answer is yes. This was my response to a question I was asked to address in a recent AEON piece (https://aeon.co/essays/consciousness-is-not-a-thing-but-a-process-of-inference). What follows is based upon the notes for that essay, with a special focus on self-organization, self-evidencing and...
Stance: an International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
April 23, 2018
David J. Chalmers
David Chalmers is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University. He received his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from Indiana University in 1993 and has held positions at University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Arizona, and Australian National University. He helped to found the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and co-directs the...
Medjugorje and the Supernatural
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
This chapter studies a major debate that has emerged in the second-half of the twentieth century between scholars of mysticism. The debate is between perennialist scholars and constructivist scholars. Perennialism sees mystical experiences as transcending culture, language, and time-period, and pointing to a unified spiritual experience among various peoples, while constructivism sees mystical...
Oxford University Press eBooks
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
Cognitive sciences like neuroscience have been used to study more common, cultivated, or induced religious experiences like states of meditation or prayer; however, in Medjugorje, it is the first time that spontaneous and extraordinary mystical experiences, such as visionary experiences in the form of Marian apparitions, have been studied by neuroscience as they are transpiring: pointing to...
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that the Virgin Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
April 18, 2018
Evan Westra
1 citation
"Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content, by Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin." Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 97(1), p. 210