Advances in experimental medicine and biology
2011
Riccardo Manzotti
Sooner or later, machine consciousness will have to address the elusive notion of free will either to dismiss it or to produce a machine implementation. It is unclear whether freedom and consciousness are independent aspects of the human mind or by-product of the same underlying structure. Here, the relevant literature is reviewed focusing on the connection between determinism and...
Mens Sana Monographs
2011
R Balasubramanian
A human being is a complex entity consisting of the Self (also known as Consciousness), mind, senses and the body. The Vedānta tradition holds that the mind, the senses and the body are essentially different from the Self or Consciousness. It is through consciousness that we are able to know the things of the world, making use of the medium of the mind and the senses. Furthermore, the mind,...
Frontiers in Physiology
2011
Stephanie L Hawkins
American psychologist and philosopher William James devoted the entirety of his career to exploring the nature of volition, as expressed by such phenomena as will, attention, and belief. As part of that endeavor, James's unorthodox scientific pursuits, from his experiments with nitrous oxide and hallucinogenic drugs to his investigation of spiritualist mediums, represent his attempt to address...
Behavioural Neurology
2011
Markus Reuber, M Kurthen
23 citations
Non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD) is one of the most important differential diagnoses of epilepsy. Impairment of consciousness is the key feature of non-epileptic attacks (NEAs). The first half of this review summarises the clinical research literature featuring observations relating to consciousness in NEAD. The second half places this evidence in the wider context of the recent discourse...
Philosophy East and West
2011
Jay L. Garfield
13 citations
Hey, Buddha! Don’t Think! Just Act!—A Response to Bronwyn Finnigan Jay L. Garfield The Problem: How a Buddhist can Conceptualize a Buddha’s Enlightened Action In the course of a careful and astute discussion of the difficulties facing a Buddhist account of the moral agency of a buddha, Bronwyn Finnigan develops a challenging critique of a proposal I made in a recent article (Garfield 2006)....
Journal of Religion in Africa
2011
Carine Plancke
17 citations
Abstract Among the rural Punu of Congo-Brazzaville, possession trance is an essential part of the mainly female celebrations dedicated to the bayisi or water spirits. It is a privileged medium through which these spirits reveal their wishes and conditions their willingness to assure the community’s well-being. On the human side, in order to be possessed an ‘opening of the mind’ is requested and...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
2011
Wolf Mehling, Judith Wrubel, Jennifer Daubenmier et al.
465 citations
Enhancing body awareness has been described as a key element or a mechanism of action for therapeutic approaches often categorized as mind-body approaches, such as yoga, TaiChi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Body Awareness Therapy, mindfulness based therapies/meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Method, Breath Therapy and others with reported benefits for a variety of health conditions. To better...
Time and Mind
2011
David Luke
6 citations
(2011). The Light from the Forest: The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil. Time and Mind: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 361-364.
Journal of Seon Studies
December 31, 2010
Mi-Ja Kang
본 논문은 반야심경을 활용한 止觀명상과 심리치료적 요인 그리고 空통찰이 정신분석치료?인지치료와 어떻게 소통?보완 될 수 있는지 고찰하였다. 먼저 반야심경을 활용한 止명상인 집중명상의 방법으로는 반야심경에서 일체 苦를 없앤다는 반야바라밀다 주문인”아제 아제 바라아제 바라승아제 모지사바하”라는 만트라(진언)를 염송하거나 또는 반야심경 독경을 통해 집중명상을 한다. 집중명상 수행의 결과는 삼매 또는 定을 얻는 것이다. 마음이 대상에 깊게 집중되어 있을 때 욕정, 탐욕, 분노, 무지, 자만과 같은 번뇌들이 대상에 몰입해 있는 마음에서 멀리 떨어져 나가게 된다는 것을 알 수 있다. 반야심경의 觀명상은 반야심경의 핵심사상인 空性을 관하는 것이다. 空 통찰명상의 심리치료적 요인으로, 먼저 sati명상의...
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,...