Many recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies have revealed the importance of investigating meditation states and traits to achieve an increased understanding of cognitive and affective neuroplasticity, attention and self-awareness, as well as for their increasingly recognized clinical relevance. The investigation of states and traits related to meditation has especially pronounced...
Machine Consciousness is the study of consciousness in a biological, philosophical, mathematical and physical perspective and designing a model that can fit into a programmable system architecture. Prime objective of the study is to make the system architecture behave consciously like a biological model does. Present work has developed a feasible definition of consciousness, that characterizes...
NeurologyJanuary 26, 2010S Silva, X Alacoque, O Fourcade et al.
The ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) modulates circadian wakefulness, which is preserved in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Its metabolism is preserved. Impairment of metabolism in the polymodal associative cortices (i.e., precuneus) is characteristic of PVS where awareness is abolished. Because the interaction of these 2 structures allows conscious sensory perception, our...
Chapter 8 prepare the ground for, and then plunges into, the relation of Deleuze’s (bio)panpsychism and the “mind in life” position of Evan Thompson (2007); the “enactive” biology of Varela, Thompson, Ezequiel Di Paolo, and Hans Jonas; and some contemporary biological work on the E. coli bacterium.
Chapter 9 examines the relation of Deleuze’s (bio)panpsychism and the “mind in life” position of Evan Thompson; the “enactive” biology of Varela, Thompson, Ezequiel Di Paolo, and Hans Jonas; and contemporary biological work on the E. coli bacterium.
What certainty is there for personal survival after death? Five key authors, critically analysed in this thesis, think that OB/ND experiences offer such assurances. Most OB/ND events follow severe clinical crises profoundly embarrassing cerebral function. At the nadir of brain function, invariably resulting in unconsciousness, authors aver that the escape of soul (Sabom), mind, or free...
Introduction One of the most important challenges of this century is to understand the neural bases of consciousness from the molecular to the highest cognitive level, in other words, to bridge “the hump from neurochemistry to subjective feeling” (Searle, 2000). Yet, due to the complexity of the human brain, it is not anticipated that a single concept, method, or experimental finding will ever...
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...
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....
We review the literature on the neurobiology of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep states and associated dreams. REM is associated with enhanced activation of limbic and amygdalar networks and decreased activation in dorsal prefrontal regions while stage II NREM is associated with greater cortical activation than REM. Not surprisingly, these disparate brain...