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...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2008
Pamela M. Biela
The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to answer the question, "What is the meaning of the transformative dream for people who do not experience resolution of their problem immediately upon awakening?". Existential-phenomenology from the perspective of a story was used to describe the meaning of the experience for ten individuals, nine women and one man, whose ages ranged from 23 to...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
2008
Parvaneh Eskandari, Abbas Erfanian
Cognitive tasks using motor imagery have been used for generating and controlling EEG activity in most brain-computer interface (BCI). Nevertheless, during the performance of a particular mental task, different factors such as concentration, attention, level of consciousness and the difficulty of the task, may be affecting the changes in the EEG activity. Accordingly, training the subject to...
Asian Medicine
2008
Aspasia Leledaki, David J Brown
13 citations
Abstract This paper explores the transformation of a dualistic mind-body relationship as reported by participants in a recent qualitative study involving modern yoga and meditation practitioners. The stories of the practitioners focused strongly on transforming a body-self that was configured as a result of living a life in Western cultural contexts where philosophies of mind-body dualisms were...
Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
2008
Nicholas Humphrey
2 citations
The hard problem of consciousness is to explain the experience of qualia. But everything gets easier once we realise that what has to be explained is not how qualia can exist as objective entities but rather why the conscious subject should believe that they exist. This essay lays out a programme for doing this. It makes radical proposals as to how the “qualia illusion” is created, and why...
Time and Mind
2008
Charles D. Laughlin, C. Jason Throop
54 citations
The neurophenomenology of time-consciousness is presented. This lays a foundation for exploring the ways that society and culture influence the experience and interpretation of time without losing sight of the embodied, neurophysiological and universal aspects of time-consciousness. The neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are summarized as they relate to temporal perception and cognition....
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
2008
Peter J. Schulz
10 citations
Edith Stein's work revolves around one central question, namely, the identity of the person. Discussions of this topic are already present in Stein's dissertation. I examine her theory of identity, developed throughout her work and maturing in her magnum opus, Finite and Eternal Being, in three stages, each of which is historically relevant and original. First, Stein's development of the...
Kagaku tetsugaku
2008
Akira Haji
The present review concerns Yukihiro Nobuhara's masterpiece, Philosophy of Consciousness: Introduction to the Study of Qualia. This book should be highly acclaimed due to the fact that from an intentional / representational point of view, a modern orthodox naturalistic standpoint, the problems of qualia are examined conceptually by assimilating bodily sensations to perception, as well as that...