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September 25, 2017 Jean‐Paul Sartre
For a decade or two in post-war Europe, Jean-Paul Sartre&s;s philosophy of consciousness caught the public imagination like no other before or since. Sartre took his primary influence from the phenomenology of Husserl and fashioned from it and other philosophical and literary inspirations the French existentialist model, which swept across Western culture. Sartre&s;s vision was of a...
Research in psychology and behavioral sciences September 24, 2017 Jacob J. Isler 8 citations
Current models of mental health rely heavily on the assumption that only one agent of self exists in every one brain. Deviations from this model of singularity in mind are heavily stigmatized and often considered disordered. This paper opposes this bias by analyzing one form of plurality in consciousness: tulpamancy. Tulpamancy is a collection of meditative techniques used to create and...
arXiv Preprint Archive September 22, 2017 Ben Goertzel, Julia Mossbridge, Eddie Monroe et al. preprint
The "Loving AI" project involves developing software enabling humanoid robots to interact with people in loving and compassionate ways, and to promote people' self-understanding and self-transcendence. Currently the project centers on the Hanson Robotics robot "Sophia" -- specifically, on supplying Sophia with personality content and cognitive, linguistic, perceptual and behavioral content...
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine September 22, 2017 Christine Tara Peterson, Sarah M. Bauer, Deepak Chopra et al. 54 citations
Stress-induced disorders such as anxiety represent the leading causes of adult disability worldwide. Previous studies indicate that yoga and other contemplative practices such as pranayama, or controlled yogic breathing techniques, may be effective in the treatment of mood disorders and stress. In this study, 142 individuals (mean age = 43 years; SD = 13.90) participated in a 3-day retreat...
Oxford Scholarship Online September 21, 2017 G. William Domhoff
This book presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams that documents the similarities of dreaming to waking thought, demonstrates that personal psychological meaning can be found in a majority of dream reports, has a strong developmental dimension based on excellent longitudinal and cross-sectional studies carried out in sleep labs with children ages 3–15, locates the neural substrate for...
Oxford Scholarship Online September 21, 2017 Peter B. Reiner, Saskia K Nagel
Living in the modern world entails substantial interaction with information technologies. The ways in which people interact with these devices—how they enter into daily practices—has become so profound that they qualify as technologies of the extended mind. This chapter distinguishes between these devices acting as cognitive support versus becoming bona fide extensions of our minds, and argues...
September 15, 2017 David Skrbina
An updated edition of a comprehensive study of the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things. In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism—the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things—in consideration of the nature of consciousness and mind....
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction September 14, 2017 Susan Blackmore
‘The evolution of consciousness’ begins with two questions. First, which living creatures are conscious and in what way? Secondly, when and how did consciousness evolve? Consciousness could be an all-or-nothing phenomenon, with some creatures having it and others not. Or it might be a continuous variable, with some having more than others. Different theories of evolution of consciousness are...
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction September 14, 2017 Susan Blackmore 18 citations
‘Altered states of consciousness’ discusses the states of consciousness during sleep, dreaming, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, meditation, and after taking psychoactive drugs. Psychologist Charles Tart defines an altered state of consciousness (ASC) as ‘a qualitative alteration in the overall pattern of mental functioning, such that the experiencer feels his...
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies September 11, 2017 Hao Tian, Chongguang Bi, Guoliang Xing et al. 62 citations
With a wealth of scientifically proven health benefits, meditation was enjoyed by about 18 million people in the U.S. alone, as of 2012. Yet, there remains a stunning lack of convenient tools for promoting long-term and effective meditation practice. In this paper, we present MindfulWatch, a practical smartwatch-based sensing system that monitors respiration in real-time during meditation --...