Analysis
June 20, 2011
John Cottingham
We are all familiar with the alleged ‘hard problem’ of consciousness – explaining how the subjective world of conscious awareness could arise out of neuronal activity. Owen Flanagan, an out-and-out naturalist, is committed to dissolving this much discussed problem without any appeal to ‘spooky’ immaterial entities or properties. Instead, he proposes that the solution depends on accepting what...
Philosophical Psychology
June 18, 2011
Michele Merritt
3 citations
The hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC), or the claim that cognitive processes are not entirely organism-bound and can extend into the world, has received a barrage of criticism. Likewise, defenders of HEC have responded and even retreated into more moderate positions. In this paper, I trace the debate, rehearsing what I take to be the three strongest cases against HEC: nonderived content,...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 15, 2011
Georges Dicker
This chapter surveys, formulates, and evaluates Berkeley's main arguments for the foundational doctrine of his philosophy, namely that we perceive only our own ideas or, as he puts it, that sensible qualities are only ideas or sensations in the mind: the pleasure-pain argument, two subtly different versions of the argument from perceptual relativity (one of which invokes, in effect, the...
NeuroQuantology
June 2, 2011
Alexander Ya Temkin
1 citation
In this paper the general definitions of the concepts of consciousness, conscious and subconscious thinking are formulated. In the present article the central problem of the thinking that is how the thinking is governed is considered. It was established that it is governed not directly on the level of the set of thoughts, i. e., mind, but indirectly on the level of the metric space over the...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
June 1, 2011
Noel Henricksen
As a medical practitioner, Peter Goldsworthy has been confronted, all too frequently, with human suffering, morbidity and mortality: he wrestles with their existential meaning in his poetry, essays and stories. Death, in Goldsworthy’s works, is ubiquitous: it becomes an engine for tension between belief and scepticism, for contention between the legacy of his childhood Methodism and his...
American journal of primatology
June 2011
Jaak Panksepp
Do we need to consider mental processes in our analysis of brain functions in other animals? Obviously we do, if such BrainMind functions exist in the animals we wish to understand. If so, how do we proceed, while still retaining materialistic-mechanistic perspectives? This essay outlines the historical forces that led to emotional feelings in animals being marginalized in behavioristic...
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
June 1, 2011
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Vincent C. Müller
75 citations
The dialogue develops arguments for and against adopting a new world system, info-computationalist naturalism, that is poised to replace the traditional mechanistic world system. We try to figure out what the info-computational paradigm would mean, in particular its pancomputationalism. We make some steps towards developing the notion of computing that is necessary here, especially in relation...
Counselling Psychology Quarterly
June 1, 2011
Patrizia Collard
P: Mr Whitfield, how did you first become interested in Mindfulness? H: I once spent 4 hours a day for 12 days in a row on retreat, receiving TIR and related techniques as a client (TIR is an integ...
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
June 2011
Somporn Rungreangkulkij, Wiwat Wongtakee, Sawitta Thongyot
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of Buddhist group therapy on patients with type 2 diabetes who had depressive symptoms. A quasi-experimental design study using a control group with matching technique was conducted. After informed consent was obtained, the "Nine questions for assessing depressive disorder symptom" (Isan language) was used to determine the patient's...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 2011
Shirley Telles, Kanchan Maharana, Budhi Balrana et al.
Prior research has shown that methods of meditation, breath control, and different kinds of yoga breathing affect attention and visual perception, including decreasing the size of certain optical illusions. Evaluating relationships sheds light on the perceptual and cognitive changes induced by yoga and related methods, and the locus of the effects. In the present study, the degree of optical...