Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais
2011
Priscila Alves de Souza
15 citations
Dentre as inúmeras plantas alucinógenas utilizadas por populações indígenas da bacia amazônica, talvez nenhuma delas seja mais interessante ou complexa em termos botânicos, químicos ou etnográficos, como a bebida alucinógena conhecida como ayahuasca, hoasca, medicina, vegetal ou daime. Ayahuasca é bebida psicotrópica da América do Sul de destacado uso no xamanismo de muitas tribos indígenas da...
Enrahonar An international journal of theoretical and practical reason
2011
Iker Puente
Este ensayo se propone reflexionar sobre la introducción e influencia de la filosofía oriental en el pensamiento occidental, y en particular su relación con las ciencias cognitivas. Se inicia la discusión con un repaso histórico de la introducción de la filosofía oriental en el pensamiento occidental. Después se repasa el progresivo aumento de interés que se produjo a lo largo del siglo xx,...
December 31, 2010
Rex Welshon
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the brain and nervous system. It is a large field and immediately splits into four subfields. Neuroanatomy is the scientific study of the form and structure of the brain and nervous system. Neurophysiology is the scientific study of the physical and biochemical processes of the brain and nervous system. Neuropsychology is the scientific study of the...
Pragmatics & Cognition
December 31, 2010
Shaun Gallagher
I review the problem of how to define consciousness. I suggest that rather than continuing that debate, we should turn to phenomenological description of experience to discover the common aspects of consciousness. In this way we can say that consciousness is characterized by intentionality, phenomenality, and non-reflective self-awareness. I explore this last characteristic in detail and I...
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,...
December 31, 2010
Rex Welshon
4 citations
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of recent years and presents an up to date...
O Mundo da Saúde
December 30, 2010
Manoel José Pereira Simão
7 citations
Transpersonal Psychology has been considered the fourth force in psychology, after behaviorism, psychoanalysis and thehumanist trend. It studies the states of consciousness and its application in health and education, and it understands humans as bio--psycho-social-spiritual beings. It integrates in practice many consecrated exercises used in Western and Eastern psychology. In the healthfield...
arXiv Preprint Archive
December 27, 2010
Andre Nathan, Valmir C. Barbosa
preprint
An information-theoretic framework known as integrated information theory (IIT) has been introduced recently for the study of the emergence of consciousness in the brain [D. Balduzzi and G. Tononi, PLoS Comput. Biol. 4, e1000091 (2008)]. IIT purports that this phenomenon is to be equated with the generation of information by the brain surpassing the information which the brain's constituents...
Oxford University Press eBooks
December 3, 2010
Andrea Knutson
Chapter 4 examines the impact that Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and its demonstration of probabilistic thinking had on William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience (Varieties) and demonstrates the central role the conversion dynamic plays in James’s work, focusing on his development of a psychology of religious experience in the Varieties and of pragmatism as a philosophy...
Revista gaucha de enfermagem
December 2010
Edite Lago da Silva Sena, Lucia Hisako Takase Gonçalves, Marcos José Müller Granzotto et al.
The strategy presented in this paper, called Analytics of ambiguity, is connected to the necessity of understanding findings in researches based on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. It was developed through a study of descriptions of life experiences from ten family members, members of a Mutual Help Group for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, conducted at a university in Florianopolis, Santa...