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Progress in Brain Research 2008 Narayanan Srinivasan
Research on attention has been closely linked with possible advances in the study of consciousness. Various theories and models have been proposed for attention in the past 50 years. Behavioural, computational, and neuroscientific approaches have been successful in improving our understanding of attentional processes. Given the current status of attention research, what can we say about the...
Progress in Brain Research 2008 Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton
In this chapter we present a computational architecture intended to add clarity to the concept of consciousness. We briefly review some of the motivations of work done in this area in various institutes around the world and looks closely at our own work which specifically includes phenomenology, the sense of a self in a perceptual world. This breaks consciousness into five axioms: presence,...
Educational Philosophy and Theory 2008 Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce‐Kapler, Tammy Iftody 19 citations
In this essay, the authors describe human consciousness as an embodied experience that emerges from a complex relationship of the biological and the phenomenological. Following arguments made by ) and ), they argue that one primary way that human beings develop self‐awareness of their own minds is by becoming aware of other minds. These mind‐reading abilities become fundamental to the continual...
Electromagnetic biology and medicine 2008 J N Booth, Stanley A. Koren, Michael A. Persinger
Previous research has shown that exposure to circumcerebral weak magnetic fields with different rates of acceleration applied in a counterclockwise rotation around the head was associated with increased estimations of subjective time and as much as a 30% increase in power within the theta range within quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) recordings. The largest effect was associated with...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence January 1, 2008 Harry Sumnall, Kerry Woolfall, Sara Edwards et al.
Self-reported use of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) among clubbers has increased over the last decade, and is often reported in the scientific literature in association with negative events such as amnesia, overdose, and use in drug facilitated sexual assault. However, there has been relatively little work investigating the phenomenology of GHB intoxication, and the reasons underlying use. In this...
Mission studies 2008 Guy Lancaster
136 Book Reviews / Mission Studies 25 (2008) 115–152 Th e Unity of Mystical Traditions: Th e Transformation of Consciousness in Tibetan and German Mysticism . By Randall Studstill. Leiden, Brill 2005. Pp. xii + 304. $127.00. “Mysticism” is a term bandied about so much in popular discourse that it has almost been stripped of meaning, constituting a veritable Rorschach blot whose definition is in...
Existential Analysis Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 2008 Kurt Dauer Keller 10 citations
What characterizes any phenomenological approach is the attempt to conceptualize in as close connection with the actual experience of the phenomena as possible. Thus, we have to look for the intentionality in the psychosis, the wild and chaotic structuring of meaning as angst. For psychosis basically has to do with angst in a sense that has been explicated by existentialism, psychoanalysis and...
Investigaciones Fenomenológicas 2008 Urbano Mestre Sidoncha
1. Da possibilidade -e necessidade -de um debate entre materialismo e fenomenologia Falar do debate entre materialismo reducionista e fenomenologia é, indiscutivelmente, um exercício cuja legitimidade não se obtém de imediato, num só lance.Aparentemente, trata-se de um debate que não foi solicitado por nenhuma das partes, convictas que estão da "incomunicabilidade" dos seus procedimentos, e do...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2008 J. Green
Article presenting the case study of the "death journey" or near-death experience (NDE) of Don Talayesva, a Hopi Indian, whose experience occurred between 1900 and 1910. The article compares and contrasts his experience with 11 accounts of Native American NDEs reported by Jenny Wade, as well as with modern day NDEs.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 2008 David V Forrest
In response to a new psychological study of persons who believe they have been abducted by space aliens that found that sleep paralysis, a history of being hypnotized, and preoccupation with the paranormal and extraterrestrial were predisposing experiences, I noted that many of the frequently reported particulars of the abduction experience bear more than a passing resemblance to...