Theory & Psychology
June 1, 2008
Tjeerd Van de Laar
10 citations
In this paper I compare heterophenomenology and neurophenomenology as methodologies for a science of consciousness. I give introductions of heterophenomenology (HP) and neurophenomenology (NP), respectively. Than I briefly relate HP and NP to mainstream cognitive science methodology and to each other. I claim that although HP and NP are indeed different methodologies for studying consciousness,...
May 30, 2008
Beata Stawarska
12 citations
The reader of Merleau-Ponty can trace a thread running through his writings, from the earliest The Structure of Behavior up to the unfinished and posthumously published The Visible and the Invisible . This thread weaves together the philosopher's commitment to phenomenology and lived experience, along with psychoanalytic theory and its preoccupations with the regions of human life that...
The Senses and Society
May 18, 2008
Anthony Enns
29 citations
This paper examines the impact of psychical research on the development of wireless technology as well as the influence of wireless on scientific interpretations of psychic phenomena. The invention of wireless was originally based on the notion that an invisible yet material ether permeated the universe, and this theory was employed to explain sensory perception as well as the transmission of...
Oxford University Press eBooks
May 15, 2008
Michael Silberstein
38 citations
The first section characterises the kind of emergence defended in this chapter and situates it largely in the enactive paradigm of consciousness and cognition. The second section begins to cast doubt on physicalism and related doctrines in philosophy of mind that speak against ontological emergence. In the process, it becomes clear that ontological emergence cum enactivism is philosophically...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 7, 2008
Shih-Yu Lo, Su-Ling Yeh
Consciousness researchers are interested in distinguishing between mental activity that occurs with and without awareness (i.e., explicit versus implicit processes). The inattentional blindness (IB) paradigm is an excellent tool for this question because it permits the independent manipulation of processing time and awareness. In the present study, we show that implicit texture segregation can...
May 1, 2008
D. Moran
Phenomenology, understood as a philosophy of immanence, has had an ambiguous, uneasy relationship with transcendence, with the wholly other, with the numinous. If phenomenology restricts its evidence to givenness and to what has phenomenality, what becomes of that which is withheld or cannot in principle come to givenness? In this paper I examine attempts to acknowledge the transcendent in the...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
May 2008
Joel Ashworth, Joseph Ciorciari, Con Stough
Dissociation involves a disruption of typically integrated functions including consciousness, information perception, and memory; however, dissociation may not always be of a pathologic nature. Increasingly, studies are identifying relations between inconsistent handedness, mixed hemispheric lateralization, and dissociative symptomatology in both clinical and nonclinical populations. The...
Anthropology of Consciousness
May 1, 2008
Adam J. Rock, Jessica Wilson, Luke Johnston et al.
18 citations
ABSTRACT The subjective effects and therapeutic potential of the shamanic practice of journeying is well known. However, previous research has neglected to provide a comprehensive assessment of the subjective effects of shamanic‐like journeying techniques on non‐shamans. Shamanic‐like techniques are those that demonstrate some similarity to shamanic practices and yet deviate from what may...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
May 1, 2008
Melanie Boly, Christophe Phillips, Luaba Tshibanda et al.
396 citations
Spontaneous brain activity has recently received increasing interest in the neuroimaging community. However, the value of resting-state studies to a better understanding of brain-behavior relationships has been challenged. That altered states of consciousness are a privileged way to study the relationships between spontaneous brain activity and behavior is proposed, and common resting-state...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
April 18, 2008
Wolfgang Fasching
40 citations
Many spiritual traditions employ certain mental techniques (meditation) which consist in inhibiting mental activity whilst nonetheless remaining fully conscious, which is supposed to lead to a realisation of one’s own true nature prior to habitual self-substantialisation. In this paper I propose that this practice can be understood as a special means of becoming aware of consciousness itself as...