Advances in Consciousness Research
November 29, 2000
46 citations
How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and third-person methods. This book introduces some of the creative ways in which these methods can...
Consciousness & Emotion
November 24, 2000
Thomas C. Dalton
Charles Darwin is generally credited with having formulated the first systematic attempt to explain the evolutionary origins and function of the expression of emotions in animals and humans. His ingenious theory, however, was burdened with popular misconceptions about human phylogenetic heritage and bore the philosophical and theoretical deficiencies of the brain science of his era that his...
Realism Regained
November 16, 2000
Robert C Koons
Abstract In this chapter, I want to look at a number of problems in the philosophy of mind, and discuss briefly the relevance of a teleological theory of mental representation to these problems, including downward causation, qualia, and free will. It’s inevitable that a discussion of the mind/body problem begin with Descartes. It was Descartes who crystallized the mind/body problem as it exists...
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
October 1, 2000
Consciousness: a brief review of the riddle.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
October 1, 2000
Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape.
Journal of Analytical Psychology
October 1, 2000
L Petchkovsky
Fifteen Central Australian Aboriginal adults (8 patients, 7 colleagues) were presented with a culturally modified version of Flavell's 'stream of consciousness' experiment (pictures of persons with empty or 'busy' thought-bubbles, and an invitation to assign a picture to the mental state of a second experimenter seen reading or sitting quietly). Only 4 people assigned the empty thought bubble...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
September 28, 2000
Peter Carruthers
414 citations
How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How can the technicolour phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural activities of our brains? Many have despaired of finding answers to these questions; and many have claimed that human consciousness is inherently mysterious. Peter Carruthers argues, on the contrary, that the subjective...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 2000
P Cariani
Possible systemic effects of general anesthetic agents on neural information processing are discussed in the context of the thalamocortical suppression hypothesis presented by Drs. Alkire, Haier, and Fallon (this issue) in their PET study of the anesthetized state. Accounts of the neural requisites of consciousness fall into two broad categories. Neuronal-specificity theories postulate that...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 2000
Anette Kjellgren, Torsten Norlander
14 citations
The purpose of this study was to provide information about experiences obtained by illegal drug users and evaluate if these are consistent with Stanislav Grof's expanded model of the human unconscious. Sixteen anonymous former drug users answered a questionnaire about use, experiences, circumstances, and influences of their life. All of them have had some experiences similar to Grof's...
Metarepresentations
August 31, 2000
David Rosenthal
Abstract Metacognition has attracted considerable attention in recent psychological research. There has been extensive investigation, for example, of our metacognitive sense that information is present in memory even when that information is not consciously available, as well as investigation of the degrees of confidence people have about recall responses and about how well something has been...