Page 2035 of 2,168: studies 20,341 to 20,350 of 21,671, newest first. Back to the meditation overview
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
The previous chapters show that there are systematic correlations between conscious processes, events, states and properties and neural events, states, processes and properties and that these correlations are to varying degrees localized to particular cortical regions. The ever-growing mountains of evidence for such localized systematic covariations are grist for the reductionist's mill,...
Pragmatics & Cognition December 31, 2010 Julian Kiverstein
InHow the Mind Uses the BrainRalph Ellis and Natika Newton develop a novel embodied, enactive theory of consciousness, according to which consciousness has its basis in neural systems that prepare the system to perform actions of emotional significance to the organism. Consciousness emerges out of self-organising processes which function in such a way as to contribute to, and maintain, the...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon 4 citations
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of recent years and presents an up to date...
O Mundo da Saúde December 30, 2010 Manoel José Pereira Simão 7 citations
Transpersonal Psychology has been considered the fourth force in psychology, after behaviorism, psychoanalysis and thehumanist trend. It studies the states of consciousness and its application in health and education, and it understands humans as bio--psycho-social-spiritual beings. It integrates in practice many consecrated exercises used in Western and Eastern psychology. In the healthfield...
The Primitive Mind and Modern Man December 30, 2010 John Alan Cohan
Shamanism is a widespread healing discipline, grounded in animism. Healing, divination, rain-making and settling disputes are among the shaman’s duties. Many people rely on shamans for primary health care and spiritual guidance. The mind, body and spirit are treated as a unit by shamans. The shaman will seek to determine the supernatural cause of an illness. This can be anything from the...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 17, 2010 Leonid Perlovsky preprint
Mathematical approaches to modeling the mind since the 1950s are reviewed. Difficulties faced by these approaches are related to the fundamental incompleteness of logic discovered by K. G\"odel. A recent mathematical advancement, dynamic logic (DL) overcame these past difficulties. DL is described conceptually and related to neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy. DL models...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 16, 2010 Benoy Chakraverty preprint
The article "Physics of Consciousness" treats mind as an abstract Hilbert space with a set of orthogonal base vectors to describe information like particles, which are considered to be the elementary excitation of a quantum field. A non-Hermitian operator of Self is introduced to create these information like particles which in turn will constitute a coherent information field. The non - zero...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research December 14, 2010 Susanna Schellenberg 71 citations
I develop a view of the common factor between subjectively indistinguishable perceptions and hallucinations that avoids analyzing experiences as involving awareness relations to abstract entities, sense‐data, or any other peculiar entities. The main thesis is that hallucinating subjects employ concepts (or analogous nonconceptual structures), namely the very same concepts that in a subjectively...
PLoS One December 8, 2010 Hui Kuang, Longnian Lin, Joe Z. Tsien
Ketamine is a widely used dissociative anesthetic which can induce some psychotic-like symptoms and memory deficits in some patients during the post-operative period. To understand its effects on neural population dynamics in the brain, we employed large-scale in vivo ensemble recording techniques to monitor the activity patterns of simultaneously recorded hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells and...
Oxford University Press eBooks December 3, 2010 Andrea Knutson
Chapter 4 examines the impact that Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and its demonstration of probabilistic thinking had on William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience (Varieties) and demonstrates the central role the conversion dynamic plays in James’s work, focusing on his development of a psychology of religious experience in the Varieties and of pragmatism as a philosophy...