Girasol/Revista humanidades
September 13, 2015
Katherine M. Iverson
Este ensayo destaca la importancia del sujeto en los estudios de la conciencia. Inicia con el “problema duro” del nexo psicofísico según David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel y Colin McGinn. Luego se exponen el materialismo y el dualismo en contraste con la ontología budista, seguido de una breve descripción de la neurofenomenología de Francisco Varela. Finalmente, se presenta la meditación budista como...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
September 11, 2015
Riccardo Williams
In this paper, two main aspects of Cristina Meini’s From Cradle to Internet. The Social Nature of Personal Identity are taken into consideration. In the first place, Meini’s argument concerning the structuring role for self development of caregivers’ communicative mirroring is analysed in the light of current literature concerning the multi-layered architecture of identity. I propose to...
September 9, 2015
D. Pal
The hibernation and the ‘Vital Living Force’ (~ = Prâna) that, in turn, is responsible for maintaining the "life function" can be explained through the developed consciousness model involving thought-carrying particles (TCP), thought retaining particles (TRP) and thought force (TF). Our consciousness model signifies the existence of universal consciousness that exists along with the universe....
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
September 1, 2015
Jay A Hamm, Benjamin Buck, Paul Henry Lysaker
3 citations
Self-Experience in Schizophrenia: Metacognition as a Construct to Advance Understanding Jay A. Hamm (bio), Benjamin Buck (bio), and Paul H. Lysaker (bio) Keywords metacognition, self-disturbance, affectivity, recovery, psychosis In our original piece (Hamm et al. 2015), we suggested that contemporary phenomenological models of schizophrenia such as the ipseity-disturbance model emphasize...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
September 1, 2015
Kathryn A Culver, Kathryn Whetten, David L Boyd et al.
To measure trauma-related distress and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an 8-week yoga intervention (YI) in reducing trauma-related symptoms and emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD) among children living in orphanages in Haiti. Case comparison with random assignment to YI or aerobic dance control (DC) plus a nonrandomized wait-list control (WLC) group....
Neuroimage
September 1, 2015
Ju Lynn Ong, Danyang Kong, Tiffany T Y Chia et al.
Spontaneous eye-closures that herald sleep onset become more frequent when we are sleep deprived. Although these are typically associated with decreased responsiveness to external stimuli, it is less clear what occurs in the brain at these transitions to drowsiness and light sleep. To investigate this, task-free fMRI of sleep-deprived participants was acquired. BOLD activity associated with...
PLoS Comput. Biol.
September 1, 2015
Michael A. Cerullo
Summary In the last decade, Guilio Tononi has developed the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness. IIT postulates that consciousness is equal to integrated information (F). The goal of this paper is to show that IIT fails in its stated goal of quantifying consciousness. The paper will challenge the theoretical and empirical arguments in support of IIT. The main theoretical...
Routledge eBooks
August 27, 2015
Sheldon Z. Kramer
1 citation
This chapter establishes Kabbalistic concepts and methods and demonstrates how these teachings are used to heal psychological discord and spiritual deprivation. The mystical dimension can be integrated into everyday life when one follows an inner and outer discipline reflecting these teachings. The chapter explains combining mindfulness-based cognitive therapy which helps to decrease anxiety...
Scientific Reports
August 27, 2015
Sebastian T Philipp, Tobias Kalisch, Thomas Wachtler et al.
Bodily training typically evokes behavioral and perceptual gains, enforcing neuroplastic processes and affecting neural representations. We investigated the effect on somatosensory perception of a three-day Zen meditation exercise, a purely mental intervention. Tactile spatial discrimination of the right index finger was persistently improved by only 6 hours of mental-sensory focusing on this...
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
August 26, 2015
Afeltowicz Łukasz, Wachowski Witold
The aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of distributed cognition (DCog) in the context of classic questions posed by mainstream cognitive science. We support our remarks by appealing to empirical evidence from the fields of cognitive science and ethnography. Particular attention is paid to the structure and functioning of a cognitive system, as well as its external representations. We...