Frontiers in Psychology
2010
Stephen J Flusberg, Paul H Thibodeau, Daniel A Sternberg et al.
A growing body of data has been gathered in support of the view that the mind is embodied and that cognition is grounded in sensory-motor processes. Some researchers have gone so far as to claim that this paradigm poses a serious challenge to central tenets of cognitive science, including the widely held view that the mind can be analyzed in terms of abstract computational principles. On the...
Estudios pedagógicos
2010
Sergio Toro Arévalo
3 citations
El propósito de este ensayo es presentar algunos de los conceptos principales de la neurociencia, específicamente los planteados por Francisco Varela, Antonio Damasio, Shaun Gallagher y Alva Nóe.El objetivo del estudio es analizar y extraer puntos de encuentro entre la Neurofenomenología de Francisco Varela y el aprendizaje, basados en el supuesto de que son conceptos complementarios o...
History of the Human Sciences
2010
Benjamin Carter
The English Neoplatonic philosopher Ralph Cudworth introduced the term "consciousness" into the English philosophical lexicon. Cudworth uses the term to define the form and structure of cognitive acts, including acts of freewill. In this article I highlight the important role of theological disputes over the place and extent of human freewill within an overarching system of providence....
2010
Ming-Ni Lee
3 citations
The objectives of this study were to explore (a) the relationships between dream reflective awareness and different types of impactful dreams, (b) the relationships between waking reflective awareness and dream reflective awareness following loss and trauma, and (c) the self-transformative potential of reflective awareness within dreams. We conducted a 2 (loss/trauma experiences) X 3...
The Humanistic Psychologist
2010
Will W. Adams
13 citations
The dominant tradition in Western culture has constructed an idiosyncratic view of nature and consciousness, one that relationally impoverishes both humankind and the rest of the natural world. Psyche, consciousness, and mind are typically thought to exist exclusively in humans (or just our brains); nature is deemed merely an object, resource, or lower life-form. Guided by hermeneutic...
The Humanistic Psychologist
2010
Bernd Paul Jäger
5 citations
“We speak of a human world not because it was made by human beings, or because human bodies and human voices can be seen and heard there. We call the world human because it is a place of dialogue.” —Hannah Arendt The word contemplation retains traces of the timeless insight that we can come to fully understand the other only by becoming that other's neighbor. The word refers us to the Roman...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
2010
John H. Hick
Most neurophysiologists work on some highly specialised area of brain research and are not particularly interested in the philosophical issue, as they see it, of the relationship between brain and consciousness. For it does not make any practical difference to them whether consciousness is identical with, or caused by, or only correlated with brain activity. But those who do concern themselves...
Brain and language
January 2010
Leonardo Fernandino, Marco Iacoboni
The embodied cognition approach to the study of the mind proposes that higher order mental processes such as concept formation and language are essentially based on perceptual and motor processes. Contrary to the classical approach in cognitive science, in which concepts are viewed as amodal, arbitrary symbols, embodied semantics argues that concepts must be "grounded" in sensorimotor...
2010
Meins G.S. Coetsier
3 citations
"You-Consciousness" is the symbolic form of the soul's response to the transcendent irruption of the "Presence." This unusual symbolic form, coined by Coetsier, is embedded in Etty Hillesum's Letters and diaries, and his paper is an attempt to describe it. His study of You-Consciousness focuses on Etty Hillesum's experience and symbolization of the divine presence as "You" ("Jij"), i.e. her...
European Psychiatry
2010
A. Dalal
The paper reviewed the relevance and richness of the traditional healing practices in India, and argued that they are based on complex psychological theories of mind and human nature. They provide practical solutions to personal, familial and social problems, and have been integrated within the communal life for centuries. The paper endeavoured to understand the way traditional healing works to...