Behavioral and Brain Sciences
September 1, 1996
Sam S. Rakover
24 citations
Abstract Velmans (1991a; 1991b) proposed that consciousness plays a minor explanatory role in the information processing approach and that unconscious mechanisms process stimuli and responses and intervene between them. In contrast, the present commentary describes a thought experiment suggesting that, although input information is initially processed unconsciously, subsequent processing...
American Anthropologist
September 1, 1996
Laurel Kendall
71 citations
ABSTRACTS Recent studies have taught us that “religion” is not a fixed category but an instrument of popular consciousness. While the studies' subjects have often been victims of colonialism and capitalist exploitation, cultural production through magical means need not be restricted to a society's most oppressed elements. Counter to the expectations of Max Weber, for whom capitalism marched to...
Klinische Neurophysiologie
September 1, 1996
Boris B. Velichkovsky, T. Klemm, Peter W. Dettmar et al.
1 citation
The in part one [42] introduced method of evoked coherences was used in search for independent signs of the levels of processing effects on memory performance. 9 subjects in a visual pilot study and 16 subjects in the acoustic main experiments were presented 30 words each in a perceptive, semantic and metacognitive orientation condition. A 16-channel-EEG was recorded and stimulus-related...
International Journal of Neural Systems
September 1, 1996
F. Beck
21 citations
The role of quantum processes in brain activity has been discussed intensively in recent years. Some authors regard the indeterminacy of quantum events as key property to relate brain activity and consciousness on a scientific basis. Here we ask the question where quantum events could be effective in the complex cortical structure. We argue that only elementary microscopic processes like...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 1996
Dan Lloyd
1 citation
Commentary on “Searle and the ‘Deep Unconscious’” Dan Lloyd (bio) Can another person know my thoughts with better authority than I know them myself? With his affirmative answer to this question, Freud invented the twentieth-century human, a being whose mind is accessible to scrutiny from outside, and whose attempts at conscious self-explanation are at best partial and in many cases wrong. Even...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 1996
Royal Earl Alsup, Stanley Krippner
2 citations
The mythology of evil has assumed renewed importance among diverse spiritual groups in the West and among scholars of the anthropology of consciousness. An investigation of Yurok mythology reveals that it is conceptualized asian "imbalance" between individuals (or groups) and parts of themselves, other community members, nature, and/or the Great Spirit. Yurok teaching stories, as well as...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
August 13, 1996
Sara Rappe
46 citations
Plotinus anticipates Descartes in arguing both that the soul as subject of perception cannot be an extended substance, as well as in arguing that the mind necessarily knows itself. Like Descartes, Plotinus also invokes an introspective or subjective stance within his dialectical procedure. Methodologically, it will be seen, Plotinus shares along with Descartes in a tradition of philosophy of...
BMJ
August 1, 1996
J M Stell, J M Ryan
EDITOR,—We were interested in A Richard Green and Guy M Goodwin's editorial on ecstasy and neurodegeneration.1 We wish to draw attention to another recreational drug, which is taken in similar circumstances to ecstasy, whose use can lead to acute neurological effects. (gamma)-Hydroxybutyrate—also known as GHB, sodium oxybate, GBH, and liquid ecstasy—has been available in Britain since 1994,...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
August 1996
P Brown, M B Macmillan, R Meares et al.
Interest in the work of Pierre Janet is presently undergoing a scholarly revival and, in the process, his contribution to dynamic psychiatry is increasingly being recognised. This article compares and contrasts Pierre Janet's early studies on hysteria and the neuroses with those of Freud. The study surveys original works by Janet and Freud and contemporary scholarly exegeses. It particularly...
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
August 1, 1996
S Nagatomo, G Leisman
8 citations
This paper addresses a need to re-examine the mind-body dualism established since Descartes. Descartes' dualism has been regarded by modern philosophers as an extremely insufficient solution to the problem of mind and body, from which is derived a long opposition in modern epistomology between idealism and empiricism. This dualism, bifurcating the region of spirit and matter, and the...