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November 6, 2017 Evan Thompson
Author's précis of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy, including the author's response to commentators.
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia November 1, 2017 Tobias Andrada
The aim of the present paper is to analyse how individuals in contemporary Romania come to adopt a new life-style centred on the self and how new forms of spirituality contribute to this project. In order to document how powerfully immersed alternative forms of spirituality (yoga practices, transcendental meditation, bioenergy, holistic medicine etc.) and subjectification techniques (personal...
Cerebrum November 1, 2017 P. Zak
Editor’s Note Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically. But Buddhism has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In the book that is the subject of this review, two friends, one a Buddhist monk trained as...
Open Mind November 1, 2017 Elizaveta Solomonova 2 citations
Les théories récentes de la conscience incarnée (embodiment) soulignent que l'esprit est un processus incarné, impliquant le cerveau, le corps et l'environnement. Plusieurs aspects de la cognition, de l’interaction sensorimotrice avec l’environnement à la pensée abstraite et métaphorique, ont été conceptualisés dans ce paradigme. Le sommeil et le rêve, cependant, ont rarement été abordés par...
The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care October 27, 2017 Monica M. DiNardo, Shaddy K. Saba, Carol M. Greco et al. 17 citations
Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine feasibility, satisfaction, and preliminary effects of Mindful Stress Reduction in Diabetes Education (Mind-STRIDE), a mindfulness-based intervention for veterans. Methods The study used a single-group pretest-posttest repeated-measures design. The 90-minute Mind-STRIDE training, adapted from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), was...
Scientific Reports October 25, 2017 Liila Taruffi, Corinna Pehrs, Stavros Skouras et al. 177 citations
Music is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human cultures, mostly due to its power to evoke and regulate emotions. However, effects of music evoking different emotional experiences such as sadness and happiness on cognition, and in particular on self-generated thought, are unknown. Here we use probe-caught thought sampling and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the influence...
Synthese October 23, 2017 Julian Kiverstein, Mark Miller, Erik Rietveld
According to the free energy principle biological agents resist a tendency to disorder in their interactions with a dynamically changing environment by keeping themselves in sensory and physiological states that are expected given their embodiment and the niche they inhabit (Friston in Nat Rev Neurosci 11(2):127–138, 2010. doi:10.1038/nrn2787). Why would a biological agent that aims at...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry October 20, 2017 Dan Koren, Ravit Scheyer, Noa Reznik et al.
Aim: The goal of this pilot study was to assess the association between basic self-disturbance (SD) and deficits in neurocognitive and metacognitive functioning among help-seeking adolescents with and without attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS). Methods: Sixty-one non-psychotic, help-seeking adolescents (age 13-18) were assessed with the examination of anomalous self-experience, the structured...
Oxford Scholarship Online October 19, 2017 Steve Bruce
Examination of the fortunes of various Hinduism-inspired new religious movements (such as Rajneeshism and Transcendental Meditation) shows that the most successful were world affirming rather than world rejecting, and that their relative success was bought at the price of becoming patently more secular. Transcendental Meditation’s project to create the core of an alternative society in...
Routledge eBooks October 19, 2017 James E. Groves
Hamlet walks out alone and delivers the axial meditation of western literature. Soliloquy 4 can be moved without damaging its impact, perhaps because of its lack of first-person viewpoint. John Lee disputes whether Shakespeare’s great achievement is the creation of interiority: The limited lexicon of Elizabethans precludes the depiction of selfhood modern psychology achieves—that Hamlet’s...