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 --...
Religions
September 10, 2017
Juyoung Lee, Jane W. Davidson
This qualitative study aims to understand the factors motivating Korean migrants’ participation in weekly Charismatic Prayer Meetings in a Catholic Church. As music plays a crucial role in these meetings, the paper explores whether active engagement with music motivated the long-term commitment of participants to the meetings. The research is based on a thematic analysis of a focus group...
German Life and Letters
September 8, 2017
Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren, Lore Knapp, Charlotte Lee
3 citations
The period around 1800 offers sophisticated, diverse accounts of how the body shapes thought and knowledge.1 Yet, according to George Lakoff, in 2001:for over two thousand years, philosophers have mostly viewed the mind as disembodied.[...] But over the last two decades [...] [a] new understanding of the mind has emerged, empirically based and freed from age-old philosophical baggage.The new...
September 8, 2017
Ellis Sandoz, Michael W. Henry
William James, the most eminent American philosopher before Voegelin, reminded us of the ancient wisdom that, “Where there is no vision the people perish.” He believed that “a philosopher’s vision and the technique he uses in proof of it are two different things,” and that “philosophy is more a matter of passionate vision than of logic.” About the center of Voegelin’s thought, the personal...
InTech eBooks
September 6, 2017
Shawn Wu, Lin Hua Jiang, J. Wang
Recently, much more mind-body/mindfulness interventions have been used in different people including frail elders, patients with major depressive order, pain suffering, chronic fatigue, infection, and patients in intensive care unit, etc. In the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, many Chinese mind-body exercises are under very active investigation for evidence-based decision...
September 2, 2017
Oren Ergas
This article's main theme is the conceptualization of a 'body-oriented-pedagogy' that unfolds a possibleaccount of 'how one learns from the body'. Based on B.K.S Iyengar's approach to yoga-posture practice,which is embedded in classical yoga's philosophy of 'mind', a 'body-oriented pedagogy' is depicted as apractice that seeks to incite 'embodied mindfulness'. The pedagogy trains one in turning...