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New Directions for Community Colleges September 1, 2010 Rick Repetti 38 citations
Abstract This chapter introduces contemplative practices, studies, and pedagogy and argues in support of a contemplative pedagogy.
Activitas Nervosa Superior September 1, 2010 John O’Dea 3 citations
Abstract Because a conception of consciousness based on direct self-awareness does not generalise easily to other cases, a fully general theory of consciousness under this conception may not be possible, as Ned Block (2003) has pointed out. In this paper, i discuss the possibility of doing away with the underlying idea, common in philosophical and scientific circles, that consciousness is a...
Cognitive Neuroscience September 1, 2010 Victor A. F. Lamme
Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions about consciousness that are troubling scientists and laypersons alike. Moreover, these questions share a striking feature: They seem to have been around forever, yet neither science nor philosophy has been able to...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences September 1, 2010 S. Haan, L. Bruin 40 citations
We challenge Gallagher’s distinction between the sense of ownership (SO) and the sense of agency (SA) as two separable modalities of experience of the minimal self and argue that a careful investigation of the examples provided to promote this distinction in fact reveals that SO and SA are intimately related and modulate each other. We propose a way to differentiate between the various notions...
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research August 31, 2010 Cameron Aggs, Matthew Bambling 69 citations
Abstract Introduction: Initially proposed as a treatment modality for psychological disorders, mindfulness is now being promoted as a means of enhancing both therapist self care and therapeutic efficacy. The degree to which mindfulness can be learned by therapists to manage their own and clients' processes in therapy is as yet unknown. This study examines training outcomes of a standardised...
Psychopathology August 25, 2010 Mads G Henriksen, Borut Škodlar, Louis Sass et al.
Background: Autistic traits and perplexity are considered core features of schizophrenia in phenomenological psychiatry. They express a fundamental disturbance of the self-world relation (including disturbances of self and intersubjectivity). The aim of our study was to examine this disturbance by exploring in detail how autism and perplexity are experienced subjectively. Methods: It is a...
International Journal of Machine Consciousness August 24, 2010 Raúl Arrabales, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis 9 citations
The progress in the machine consciousness research fiel has to be assessed in terms of the features demonstrated by the new models and implementations currently being designed. In this paper, we focus on the functional aspects of consciousness and propose the application of a revision of ConsScale a biologically inspired scale for measuring cognitive development in artificial agents in order to...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine August 20, 2010 Aaron Mishara
Kafka's writings are frequently interpreted as representing the historical period of modernism in which he was writing. Little attention has been paid, however, to the possibility that his writings may reflect neural mechanisms in the processing of self during hypnagogic (i.e., between waking and sleep) states. Kafka suffered from dream-like, hypnagogic hallucinations during a sleep-deprived...
M/C Journal August 19, 2010 Cornelia Sears, Jessica Johnston 5 citations
We take as our subject what many would deem a waste of good celluloid: the degraded cultural form of the stoner film. Stoner films plot the experiences of the wasted (those intoxicated on marijuana) as they exhibit wastefulness—excessiveness, improvidence, decay—on a number of fronts. Stoners waste time in constantly hunting for pot and in failing to pursue more productive activity whilst...
Cognitive Neuroscience August 18, 2010 Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett 3 citations
Abstract A satisfying neuroscience of consciousness must account for phenomenological properties in terms of neural properties. While pursuing this project may challenge our intuitions about what we are conscious of, evidence from behavior and introspection should not be discounted. All three lines of evidence need to be integrated in order to naturalize phenomenal experience.