Naturalizing consciousness: a theoretical framework.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences April 17, 2003
Naturalizing consciousness: a theoretical framework.
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Mind, Reason and Imagination
March 31, 2003 Jane Heal
Recent philosophy of mind has had a mistaken conception of the nature of psychological concepts. It has assumed too much similarity between psychological judgments and those of natural science and has thus overlooked the fact that other people are not just objects whose thoughts we may try to predict and control but fellow creatures with whom we talk and co-operate. In this collection of...
Unanticipated Inner Experiences: Three Cases and a Reflection on Discernment
Toronto Journal of Theology March 1, 2003 Frans Jozef van Beeck
This essay, "a spiritual-theological sinfonietta in five movements of unequal length" is written to draw the reader's attention to a distinctive phase of growth in the affective life with both God and God's entire human family, the latter often referred to as "the neighbour" (i.e., any actual neighbour(s)). Being distinctive, it is possible to describe it; it actually has been described, not...
A Quantum Biomechanical Basis for Near-Death Life Reviews
Journal of Near-Death Studies March 1, 2003 Thomas E. Beck, Janet E. Colli
Near-death life reviews pose a challenge to current memory research in terms of the sheer amount of instantaneous and empathetic information recall. Advances in quantum physics, biomechanics, holographic information theory, and consciousness studies support for the first time a fully realizable quantum biomechanical basis for near-death life reviews. We introduce the unifying paradigm of the...
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Near-death experience
Life review
Memory
Non-local communication
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Trance, Possession, Shamanism and Sex
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 2003 I. M. Lewis 18 citations
Altered States of Consciousness is an umbrella term applied in the study of psychological, sociological and religious phenomena that are regularly encountered experientially in the study of trance, possession, and shamanism, all of which have complex and problematic links with music. Beginning with trance, and stressing the pervasive sexual imagery invoked, this paper reviews the role ofASC in...
Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present
Trends in Cognitive Sciences March 1, 2003 Frank Tong 73 citations
Can the brain, when stimulated, yield entirely novel experiences? Blanke et al. (2002) describe a patient who reported spontaneous out-of-body experiences during electrical stimulation of her angular gyrus. These findings, although apparently extraordinary, agree with much earlier reports from a patient tested by Wilder Penfield. Such studies can provide clues about the nature of conscious...
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Angular gyrus
Stimulation
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive science
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Sleep, consciousness and the spontaneous and evoked electrical activity of the brain. Is there a cortical integrating mechanism?
Neurophysiologie Clinique February 2003 B M Evans
The physiological mechanisms that underlie consciousness and unconsciousness are the sleep/wake mechanisms. Deep sleep is a state of physiological reversible unconsciousness. The change from that state to wakefulness is mediated by the reticular activating mechanism. The reverse change from wakefulness to sleep is also an active process effected by an arousal inhibitory mechanism based on a...
A framework for consciousness
Nature Neuroscience February 1, 2003 Francis C. Crick, Christof Koch
Here we summarize our present approach to the problem of consciousness. After an introduction outlining our general strategy, we describe what is meant by the term 'framework' and set it out under ten headings. This framework offers a coherent scheme for explaining the neural correlates of (visual) consciousness in terms of competing cellular assemblies. Most of the ideas we favor have been...
The protective mechanisms of the basic rest-activity cycle as an indirect manifestation of this rhythm in waking: preliminary report.
International Journal of Neuroscience February 2003 Katarzyna Duchniewska, Andrzej Kokoszka
The hypothesis of the Basic Rest Activity Cycle (BRAC), that underlies approximately 90-min fluctuations in states of consciousness, has gained strong documentation during sleep in cyclical occurrence of its REM and NON-REM stages, however, there is no convicting evidence of this rhythm in waking. According to the concept of protective mechanisms of BRAC (Kokoszka, 1990), the rest phase of the...
Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics
Consciousness January 23, 2003 Quentin Smith
Abstract There is something fundamentally disturbing about contemporary philosophy of mind and philosophical cognitive science. Almost without exception (exceptions such as Lockwood (1989) and Chalmers (1996, see esp. p. 349) ), the philosophical theories are logically inconsistent with the most well-confirmed theory ever developed by humans, namely, quantum mechanics. Why do philosophers...