Universal Journal of Psychology
2016
Borje Peratt
The title is, of course, an allusion to Darwin's classic book "On the Origin of Species."Here we are concerned with the question of whether there is actually an origin of consciousness or if consciousness is eternal and its availability limited by physical senses.A car crash in 1987 opened my mind to the possibility of consciousness existing independent of the senses i.e. independent of the...
2016
Juan José Garrido Periñán
This meditation is an attempt to think, from some of the major works of the young Heidegger before to Being and Time (1927), a phenomenology of being-in, so that to clarify the issue of spatiality in terms of dwelling. To this end, it is pursued a phenomenological analysis of Heidegger’s reading of Duns Scotus and then the criticism that he makes on Husserlian phenomenology, especially in its...
2016
H. Dieleman
T his article explores Bateson’s concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores...
University writing server of the Justus Liebig University Giessen
2016
Anna Ovaska, Justus Liebig University Giessen
3 citations
Fictional narratives of mental illnesses often focus on individual experiences of pain, anxiety and suffering. As such, narratives depict the experiences of illness in a holistic way, revealing the embodied, situated and intersubjective in other words, emer-gent nature of psychiatric disorders. They are thus able to create a different kind of understanding of mental disorders than medicalizing...
Filosofia Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
2016
Diana Couto
3 citations
Experiência é um termo fecundo em filosofia e protagonista de alguns dos seus mais ricos debates contemporâneos. No dia-a-dia, além das muitas ações de que somos autores, somos também vítimas de incontáveis experiências das quais, dependendo de cada caso, somos ou não responsáveis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21836892/fil33r3
2016
J. .. Fritzman, Kristin Thornburg
We seek to constitute the extended mind’s fourth wave, socially distributed group cognition, and we do so by thinking with Hegel. The extended mind theory’s first wave invokes the parity principle, which maintains that processes that occur external to the organism’s skin should be considered mental if they are regarded as mental when they occur inside the organism. The second wave appeals to...
2016
Jon Leon Torn
2012 mania started slowly, with whispers among adepts of José Argüelles. and Terence McKenna in the 80s and 90s of the significance of the date for global consciousness, ramping up to a more coordinated effort in the oughts primarily led by writers such as Daniel Pinchbeck. It slowly but surely became entwined with concepts of singularity, of exponential technological change, eventually giving...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2016
Brandi M Crowe, Marieke Van Puymbroeck, Arlene A Schmid
Yoga facilitates relaxation and connection of mind, body, and spirit through the use of breathing, meditation, and physical postures. Participation in yoga has been extensively linked to decreased stress, and as a result, is considered a therapeutic intervention by many. However, few theories exist that explain the link between yoga participation and improved psychosocial wellbeing. The...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
2016
Gurudas Khilnani, Rekha Thaddanee, Ajeet Kumar Khilnani et al.
Sir, Ms. Sufentanyl, a charming “China girl,” and Ms. Mescaline, the cute Mexican lady, were invited by Mr. Marijuana at a dinner in “Chinese restaurant” in an “angel dusty” evening. Ms. Mescaline felt “ecstatic” and “Echo de la pensee” and on the occasion she “DRESS”ed herself with “heavenly blue” frock and adorned her eyes with mascara of “belladonna.” Ms. Sufentanyl wore a necklace with...
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2016
Olivier Brabant
Commonly accepted models of human consciousness have substantial shortcomings, in the sense that they cannot account for the entire scope of human experiences. The goal of this article is to describe a model with higher explanatory power, by integrating ideas from psychology and quantum mechanics. In the first part, the need for a paradigm change will be justified by presenting three types of...