Qualitative Health Research
June 2010
Reinhard Stelter
Two theoretical constructs that lay the foundation for experience-based, body-anchored interviewing are presented: the first-person perspective and the concept of meaning. These theoretical concepts are concretized, first, by means of a methodological framework for experience-based, body-anchored interviewing, and second, by an interview guide that explores a research participant's personal...
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
June 1, 2010
Edwin R. Lewis, Ronald J. MacGregor
7 citations
We begin with premises about natural science, its fundamental protocols and its limitations. With those in mind, we construct alternative descriptive models of consciousness, each comprising a synthesis of recent literature in cognitive science. Presuming that consciousness arose through natural selection, we eliminate the subset of alternatives that lack selectable physical phenotypes, leaving...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness
June 1, 2010
Aaron Sloman
30 citations
This paper extends three decades of work arguing that researchers who discuss consciousness should not restrict themselves only to (adult) human minds, but should study (and attempt to model) many kinds of minds, natural and artificial, thereby contributing to our understanding of the space containing all of them. We need to study what they do or can do, how they can do it, and how the natural...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 1, 2010
M. G. F. Martin, Anthony O’Hear
27 citations
Listening to someone from some distance in a crowded room you may experience the following phenomenon: when looking at them speak, you may both hear and see where the source of the sounds is; but when your eyes are turned elsewhere, you may no longer be able to detect exactly where the voice must be coming from. With your eyes again fixed on the speaker, and the movement of her lips a clear...
British Journal of Wellbeing
June 1, 2010
Vidyamala Burch, Colin Duff
Mindfulness is a mental and physical health intervention that is growing in popularity, particularly in the treatment of depression. Vidyamala Burch and Colin Duff from Breathworks describe how mindfulness works and how it is helping people in North West England to manage chronic pain and other problems
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
June 1, 2010
Perceptual qualia and local network behavior in the cerebral cortex.
Activitas Nervosa Superior
June 1, 2010
Copthorne Macdonald
1 citation
Abstract The author postulates a universe in which mentality is as fundamental as physicality, explores the implications of that, and presents hypotheses concerning the evolution and functioning of human cognitive systems in such an environment. Of the several interpretations of reality which consider the physical and the mental to be equally real and equally fundamental, two compatible...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
June 2010
Joaquín Barutta, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Carlos Cornejo et al.
In cognitive neuroscience, the reissue of the notion of emergence and downward causation has been used as an interlevel model of mind-brain interactions from different perspectives. Within this perspective, intentionality has been interpreted as global to local determination (downward causation) on the neurophysiological level. Consciousness would act as the large-scale, global activity of the...
Mentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika
June 1, 2010
Tibor Porosz
Az írás áttekintést ad a buddhista pszichológia tradicionális irodalmának nyugati recepciójáról, illetve egyes gondolatainak a nyugati pszichológiával történt összehasonlító elemzéseiről. Ezt követően a nyugati és a buddhista pszichológia általános jellegzetességeit veti egybe, hasonlóságaikat és különbségeiket foglalja össze. Ehhez kapcsolódóan a cikk a nyugati tudományosság és a buddhista...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness
June 1, 2010
Cristiano Castelfranchi
1 citation
After discussing a possible contradiction in Sloman's very challenging intervention, I stress the need for not identifying with phenomenal consciousness and with the qualia problem. I claim that it is necessary to distinguish different forms and functions of and to explicitly model them, also by exploiting the specific advantage of AI: to make experiments impossible in nature, by separating...