Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine
September 1, 2010
Viktoriya Kuntsevich, William C. Bushell, Neil D. Theise
57 citations
Mechanisms underlying the modulating effects of yogic cognitive-behavioral practices (eg, meditation, yoga asanas, pranayama breathing, caloric restriction) on human physiology can be classified into 4 transduction pathways: humoral factors, nervous system activity, cell trafficking, and bioelectromagnetism. Here we give examples of these transduction pathways and how, through them, yogic...
Activitas Nervosa Superior
September 1, 2010
Copthorne Macdonald
3 citations
Abstract Ever since introspectionism was abandoned early in this century, the scientific community has shown little interest in training people to observe the functioning of their own minds with greater than ordinary clarity. Thus, despite advanced academic training and much knowledge about physical phenomena and processes, few consciousness theorists or experimentalists have any special...
New Directions for Community Colleges
September 1, 2010
Rick Repetti
38 citations
Abstract This chapter introduces contemplative practices, studies, and pedagogy and argues in support of a contemplative pedagogy.
Activitas Nervosa Superior
September 1, 2010
John O’Dea
3 citations
Abstract Because a conception of consciousness based on direct self-awareness does not generalise easily to other cases, a fully general theory of consciousness under this conception may not be possible, as Ned Block (2003) has pointed out. In this paper, i discuss the possibility of doing away with the underlying idea, common in philosophical and scientific circles, that consciousness is a...
Activitas Nervosa Superior
September 1, 2010
Douglas J. Matzke
Abstract This dualist model of mind-body addresses the formal and physical limits to computation that critics of artificial intelligence argue are the reason computers will never produce really intelligent machines. This model describes potential ideal computational leverage mechanisms that are based upon primitive properties of the universe (such as space, time, and number of dimensions)...
Journal of Religion and Health
September 1, 2010
Bruce Stephen Kerievsky
1 citation
This paper examines the attractions of passionate involvement in wanting particular outcomes, which is popularly known as rooting. The author's lifelong personal experience is the source of his analysis, along with the insights provided by spiritual literature and especially the work of Dr. Thomas Hora, with whom the author studied for 30 years. The phrase "choiceless awareness," utilized by J....
The Journal of Positive Psychology
September 1, 2010
Michael Cohn, Barbara L. Fredrickson
302 citations
A number of positive psychology interventions have successfully helped people learn skills for improving mood and building personal resources (e.g., psychological resilience and social support). However, little is known about whether intervention activities remain effective in the long term, or whether new resources are maintained after the intervention ends. We address these issues in a...
Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
August 30, 2010
Philip Murray McCullough
The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible resolution to one of the main objections to machine thought as propounded by Alan Turing in the imitation game that bears his name. That machines will, at some point, be able to think is the central idea of this text, a claim supported by a schema posited by Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their paper, “The Extended Mind” (1998). Their notion...
Open Collections
August 24, 2010
Katie Lynn Chapman, Shannon S. D. Bredin
7 citations
Yoga, a philosophy of Indian descent, is becoming popular as a physical, healing, and spiritual practice adapted for diverse cultures and patient care settings. As the methods of this ancient tradition begin to influence the physical, cognitive, social, and environmental culture of the Western world, research examining how yoga affects health, disease-status, and longevity becomes integral to...
M/C Journal
August 19, 2010
Cornelia Sears, Jessica Johnston
5 citations
We take as our subject what many would deem a waste of good celluloid: the degraded cultural form of the stoner film. Stoner films plot the experiences of the wasted (those intoxicated on marijuana) as they exhibit wastefulness—excessiveness, improvidence, decay—on a number of fronts. Stoners waste time in constantly hunting for pot and in failing to pursue more productive activity whilst...