July 8, 2016
G. Zavota
In this essay, I argue that the late ontology of Maurice MerleauPonty, in particular the system he began to develop in The Visible and the Invisible, can be conceived of as a form of Radical Enactive Cognition, as described by Hutto and Myin in Radicalizing Enactivism. I will begin by discussing Clark and Chalmers’ extended mind hypothesis, as well as the enactive view of consciousness proposed...
International Journal of Yoga
July 1, 2016
Christiane Brems, Dharmakaya Colgan, Heather Freeman et al.
Background: The practice of yoga has a long history as an integrated lifestyle science. Those who have practiced yoga in its full form (including all eight traditional aspects) find that it touches almost every aspect of their inter- and intra-personal lives. Despite this rich history, the West has adopted limited aspects of yoga practice. When understood narrowly as a physical fitness...
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
July 2016
Mahiko Konishi, Jonathan Smallwood
The mind-wandering state illustrates two fundamental aspects of consciousness: its generative nature, which is reflected by the stimulus-independent content of thought that occurs when our minds wander; and metacognition, the unique capacity of the mind to reflect and understand itself. Self-generated thought, which allows us to consider people and events that are not present in the immediate...
Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
July 1, 2016
Rohit Manchanda
Authors : Varsha Dutta Publisher : Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. ISBN : 978-81-8487-570-6 Price : 1000rs/- Year of Publication : 2016 Pages : 108 pp Among the diseases that afflict the mind, depression is one of the most forbidding, a scourge that ranks very much on a par with Alzheimer's disease or with fulminant schizophrenia for its calamitous effects. It can at times descend on its...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
July 1, 2016
Daniel Douglas Hutto
Philosophy of psychiatry faces a tough choice between two competing ways of understanding mental disorders. The folk psychology or FP view puts our everyday normative conceptual scheme in the driver’s seat – on the assumption that it, and it only, tells us what mental disorders are (Graham 2009). Opposing this, the scientific image or SI view (Murphy 2006, Gerrans 2014) holds that our...
Religions
July 1, 2016
Loriliai Biernacki
This article demonstrates remarkably similar methods for linking mind and body to address the “hard problem” in the work of 11th-century Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta with a currently prominent neuroscienctific theory, Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory 3.0. Both Abhinavagupta and Tononi and Christof Koch hinge their theories on the identity of phenomenal subjective experience with...
Phytotherapy Research
July 1, 2016
María Eva González-Trujano, Fernando Brindis, Edith López-ruiz et al.
10 citations
Although Salvia divinorum is traditionally known as a 'mind-altering' or psychoactive herb used, among others things, as a tranquilizer, this property has not been validated with regard to its efficacy and safety. The objective of this study is to provide evidence for the sedative effects of S. divinorum and discriminate the nature of the responsible constituents by examining different...
Science and Engineering Ethics
June 28, 2016
Hutan Ashrafian
The potential for artificial intelligences and robotics in achieving the capacity of consciousness, sentience and rationality offers the prospect that these agents have minds. If so, then there may be a potential for these minds to become dysfunctional, or for artificial intelligences and robots to suffer from mental illness. The existence of artificially intelligent psychopathology can be...
Art&Sensorium
June 27, 2016
Marcelo Simão Mercante
Pretendo neste artigo fazer uma breve análise do processo de "miração" , ou "imagens mentais espontâneas" , que é o processo imaginativo experienciado durante o uso ritual da ayahuasca, bebida psicoativa utilizada por indígenas amazônicos e em algumas religiões brasileiras. A imaginação é vista como uma "força" , ou o poder da mente de distorcer imagens, e não de cria-las. A imaginação, longe...
Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
June 22, 2016
Sangkot Sirait
1 citation
Most Islamic theologians and sufi orders always have a different view of discovering the truth of God. On the contrary,in the view of Ibn Taymiyya, between Islamic theology and mysticism both strive to deliver people to understand the existence of God, they are so willing to do good and leave the bad. Efforts to do good and leave the bad that bring human beings intothe perfection of the soul....