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Consciousness and its Objects March 25, 2004 Colin Mcginn
Abstract The problem of consciousness is not that there are a number of competing explanatory theories, for which we lack the evidence that would enable us to choose between them; it is that we have no sense of what a possible explanation would even look like. Two senses in which consciousness might be mysterious to us are distinguished: an ontological or metaphysical sense in which...
Consciousness and its Objects March 25, 2004 Colin Mcginn
Abstract The source and nature of the mind-body problem – the problem of relating consciousness and the brain – is diagnosed. With Russell’s distinction between knowledge by description and knowledge by acquaintance in mind, McGinn suggests that our knowledge of the essence of consciousness is acquired by acquaintance, and that this justifiably produces our sense of the problem. Since knowledge...
arXiv (Cornell University) March 5, 2004 Jean Faber, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa preprint
We criticize the Hameroff Penrose model in the context of quantum brain model\nby gravitational collapse orchestrated objective reduction, orch. OR, assumed\nby Penrose, and we propose instead that the decoherence process is caused by\ninteraction with the environment. We consider it useful to exploit this\npossibility because of the growing importance of decoherence theory in...
arXiv Preprint Archive March 5, 2004 Jean Faber, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa preprint
We criticize the Hameroff Penrose model in the context of quantum brain model by gravitational collapse orchestrated objective reduction, orch. OR, assumed by Penrose, and we propose instead that the decoherence process is caused by interaction with the environment. We consider it useful to exploit this possibility because of the growing importance of decoherence theory in quantum measurement,...
Mind, Morality, and Explanation February 19, 2004 Frank Jackson, Philip N. Pettit
Abstract: Causation has come to play an increasingly important role in the philosophy of mind, reaching its apotheosis in the doctrine that to be a mental state of kind K is to fill the causal role definitive of that kind of mental state: the typology of mental states is a typology of causal roles. However, ironically, there is, from this very functionalist perspective, a problem about how to...
Journal of Organizational Change Management February 1, 2004 Maia Duerr
As part of a qualitative research project to map the use of contemplative practices in secular settings, in‐depth interviews were conducted with 79 people who have founded or lead organizations where contemplative practices play a key role. In a number of interviews, contemplative practices were introduced into the workplace not only as ancillary stress‐reduction techniques for individuals, but...
January 31, 2004 K. Sterelny
In original contributions, internationally leading authors address themselves to one of the most important questions of contemporary theoretical philosophy. The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of...
Identifying the Mind January 15, 2004 George Graham, Elizabeth R. Valentine
Abstract The story I shall tell is a piece of autobiography. But it is not, as you might sup pose, a record of my own mystical experiences. For I do not claim to have had any. It is rather a record of a thought process that led from a childhood interest in religion, through an adolescent interest in mystical experience as a psycho logical phenomenon, to the publication forty years ago in the...
Medical Hypotheses 2004 F M Corrigan
Although psychotherapy is successful in altering emotional distress, the biological mechanism by which it achieves this has not been the subject of intensive neurobiological investigation. Mindful processing of emotion has been proposed [Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, The Guilford Press, New York, 2002] to be a key factor in prevention of relapse in depressive illness and...
Journal of General Internal Medicine January 2004 Peter M Wolsko, David M Eisenberg, Roger B Davis et al.
Research demonstrating connections between the mind and body has increased interest in the potential of mind-body therapies. Our aim was to examine the use of mind-body therapies, using data available from a national survey. Analysis of a large nationally representative dataset that comprehensively evaluated the use of mind-body therapies in the last year. United States households. A total of...