Yi Liu
As people's pace of life accelerates, the pressure of life they face is increasing. The handling of work, study, affairs and other events in daily life will bring various difficulties and problems, and people's improper handling of these events will cause mental health problems. With the continuous in-depth research of major depressive disorder researchers, researchers have found that there is...
Ian Phillips
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Blindsight is a neuropsychological condition defined by residual visual function following destruction of primary visual cortex. This residual visual function is almost universally held to include capacities for voluntary discrimination in the total absence of awareness. So conceived, blindsight has had an enormous impact on the scientific study of consciousness. It is held to reveal a dramatic...
Ayao Edoh Zanou
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This article is an attempt at the “hard problem” of Consciousness. As the era of Artificial Intelligence is looming ahead, we are concerned about our future environment. We define human Consciousness and medium Consciousness. We clarify the difference between the brain and the mind. We demonstrate how the brain creates the mind but must do so only in the presence of Consciousness. We define a...
Luciano Pederzoli, Elena Prati, Arianna Ballati et al.
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Four participants, chosen for their experience in reaching an Out-of-Body state of consciousness via hypnotic induction, were asked to describe five different and unknown locations, at first using Remote Viewing conditions in an ordinary state of consciousness and then again using Remote Viewing in Out-of-Body state of consciousness. According to an assessment by two independent judges, the...
Anil Kumar Bheemaiah
Abstract:Theta waves, generated in intense 10 minute superconscious meditation has been known to reducethe incidence of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics, in a study using the Muse Headset, a newera of personal EEG wearables, the author, over a period of 3 weeks has proven the efficacy ofsuperconscious meditation in successfully preventing psychosis in schizophrenia spectrumdisorder, in...
Kevin A. Caulfield, Matthew T. Savoca, James W. Lopez et al.
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Abstract: Background: The perturbational complexity index (PCI) is a useful measure of consciousness that combines transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with electroencephalography (EEG). However, the PCI has not been assessed for reliability between sessions nor is there a clear best stimulation target to acquire a PCI. Objective/Hypothesis: We assessed the reliability of within-subject PCIs...
Xiaoyang Yu
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Consciousness is only a byproduct of brain’s physical activities. Consciousness has no influence on the physical activities of the brain.
Controversial hypotheses to explain consciousness exist in many fields of science, psychology and philosophy. Recent experimental findings in quantum cognition and magnetic resonance imaging have added new controversies to the field, suggesting that the mind may be based on quantum computing. Quantum computers process information in quantum bits (qubits) using quantum gates. At a first glance,...
Dian Lu, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Shruti Naik et al.
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Abstract Brain activity is intrinsically organised into spatiotemporal patterns, but it is still not clear whether the intrinsic dynamical patterns are functional or epiphenomenal. Using a simultaneous fMRI-EEG implementation of a well-known bi-stable visual task, we showed that the latent transient states (~100-ms) in the intrinsic EEG oscillations can predict the upcoming involuntarily...
Hiroe Hu, Harold D. Roth
While the effects of mindfulness practices on the self are not widely recognized, a reduction in self-centered or “self-referential” processing stands as one of the central therapeutic mechanisms of mindfulness-based psychotherapy. In this literature-based research, I compared two cultural variations of mindfulness-based psychotherapy: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), developed...