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F1000Research December 29, 2014 Sheila Bouten, J. Bruno Debruille
Qualia, the individual instances of subjective conscious experience, are private events. However, in everyday life, we assume qualia of others and their perceptual worlds, to be similar to ours. One way this similarity is possible is if qualia of others somehow contribute to the production of qualia by our own brain and vice versa. To test this hypothesis, we focused on the mean voltages of...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia December 29, 2014 Federica Buongiorno
“First” and “Third” Person Phenomenology: Searle and Dennett Critics of Husserl - In this paper I compare Searle’s and Dennett’s philosophies of mind with Husserl’s theory of consciousness. My aim is to show how they modified the phenomenological concept of intentionality turning it into a “third-person” model of description. This change leads to problematic consequences concerning mainly (i)...
Religions December 23, 2014 Sónia Silva 8 citations
The statements of researchers on the topic of basket divination and the statements of basket diviners in northwest Zambia, Africa, do not fully agree. While researchers rightly stress the importance of observation, analysis and interpretation in basket divination, going so far as to describe diviners as scientists, they fail to recognize that divination is not an abstract, disembodied...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 23, 2014 H. Valian, H. Bassereh, A. Barkhordari et al. preprint
One of the answers to the measurement problem in quantum theory is given by the Copenhagen-Interpretation of quantum theory (i.e. orthodox quantum theory) in which the wave function collapse happens in (by) the mind of observer. In fact, at first, great scientists like Von Neumann, London, Bauer and Wigner (initially) believed that the wave function collapse occurs in the brain or is caused by...
December 14, 2014
The ＂spirit＂ (shen) is a latent energy potential residing in the ＂collective unconscious.＂ This article will investi-gate how people can obtain this energy potential. After the ＂internal yin and yang＂ are rebalanced ＂Mandala＂ automatically unfolds, this is what Jung called ＂symbolic therapy＂ or what I call ＂enlightenment treatment＂. It is also the ＂formless elixir of life＂ and will be...
December 5, 2014 Susan Power Bratton
As the breakers pull seawards and regain their crests, tiny vortices in the thinning water betray small holes in the packed sand, where mollusc and worm burrows tap the life-giving ood. Unseen microscopic cells are swirling around my ankles, providing sustenance for the reclusive excavators residing under my ephemeral footprints. e scattered evidence for a matrix of living protoplasm buried in...
The Heythrop Journal December 5, 2014 Francesca Bugliani Knox 1 citation
Desolatione desolata est omnis terra Quia nullus est qui recogit corde Even traditionally minded critics have maintained that The Waste Land defies a coherent interpretation. ‘No critic,’ Helen Gardner wrote, ‘can provide them [i.e. readers] with a magic thread to take them through the labyrinth. Its connections are not connections of logic, but connections of feeling, often of violent...
Medical Care December 2014 Jill E Bormann, Doug Oman, Kristen H Walter et al.
Several evidence-based treatments are available to veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, not all veterans benefit from these treatments or prefer to engage in them. The current study explored whether (1) a mantram repetition program (MRP) increased mindful attention among veterans with PTSD, (2) mindful attention mediated reduced PTSD symptom severity and...
Current Opinion in Neurology December 1, 2014 Peter Brugger, Bigna Lenggenhager
Purpose of review: The experience of ourselves as an embodied agent with a first-person perspective is referred to as 'bodily self'. We present a selective overview of relevant clinical and experimental studies. Recent findings: Sharing multisensory body space with others can be observed in patients with structurally altered bodies (amputations, congenital absence of limbs), with altered...
Folia Medica December 1, 2014 Jakob Korf
Abstract Qualia are private conscious experiences of which the associated feelings can be reported to other people. Whether qualia are amenable to scientific exploration has often been questioned, which is challenged by the present article. The following arguments are given: 1. the configuration of the brain changes continuously and irreversibly, because of genetic and environmental influences...