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Sociological Quarterly September 1, 1995 Robert J. Moore 24 citations
In this article, the concept of dereification in religion is developed, both theoretically and empirically, by analyzing Zen Buddhism. The central thesis is that Zen Buddhism, by virtue of the Mahayana concept of “emptiness” (sunyata), constitutes a dereifying persepctive. In addition, using the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz, the experience of dereifying perception, which is acquired through...
Neuropsychologia September 1, 1995 J Delacour
This paper summarizes the main steps in a scientific study of consciousness. From a survey of the recent literature, it appears that: (1) there is a clear tendency to consider consciousness as a scientific object; (2) consistent subjective and objective descriptions of consciousness are possible; an intentional-modeling structure accounts for its main features; (3) from the evolutionary biology...
Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie September 1995 M Schmidt-Degenhard
In this study delusion is regarded from the aspect of a phenomenology of imagination. Delusion as an experience of fictitious actualities is interpreted as the attempt of a psychotic person, to find a sense of existence in view of the threat by mental illness. After explaining the philosophical fundamentals, imagination is considered to be the dynamic origin of delusion and hallucinations. The...
Journal of Religion and Health September 1, 1995 C H Rosik
This study examines the process of unifying consciousness as described in the Christian mystical tradition and in the psychological treatment of dissociative identity disorder (DID). A comparison of the experience of the self in the contemplative and the DID patient is also undertaken to emphasize points of continuity. The present analysis proposes that differentiating first-order dissociation...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 1995 Charles D. Laughlin, John Mcmanus 12 citations
William James is usually associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and with his interest in religious experiences. But James also developed a methodology which has received far less attention. James called this methodology "radical empiricism," an approach that requires that (1) all of the ideas and theories in science be grounded in direct experience, and (2) no experience be excluded from...
Nature August 31, 1995 G Bottini, E Paulesu, R Sterzi et al.
Lack of awareness of touch associated with brain damage may transiently recover after stimulation of the vestibular system. We used positron emission tomographic regional cerebral blood flow measurements to study the neurophysiological effect of vestibular stimulation on touch imperception in a subject with a right brain lesion. We tested the hypothesis that the vestibular system aids conscious...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 28, 1995 Frederick A. Olafson
The approach to the philosophy of mind that has been adopted in this book does not attempt to demarcate a special domain of mental phenomena. Instead, the fact of presence – the “There is … ” – in its several dimensions has set the agenda for this inquiry, and the progressive differentiation of the concept of what there is – that is, of the world – has replaced the analysis of states of mind...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 28, 1995 Frederick A. Olafson
The importance of the decision one makes about where an inquiry is to begin can hardly be overestimated. That decision sets the character of the questions to be addressed; and by laying down the terms in which they are formulated, it can even carry an implicit commitment to a certain kind of answer to those questions. In the philosophy of mind especially, the terminology traditionally used to...
Advances in Consciousness Research June 29, 1995 Ralph D. Ellis
Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and acquisition of logical and apparently 'imageless' inference skills. It is argued that to be conscious of an...
Neurological research June 1995 J Sotelo, R Perez, P Guevara et al.
To investigate the possible participation of endogenous opioids in the cerebral events that take place at the moment of death we studied brain, cerebrospinal fluid and serum contents of beta-endorphin in dogs that were either conscious or unconscious at the moment of sudden death induced by cardiac arrest. Although with great interindividual variations, the animals that were conscious at the...