André S. Nilsen, Bjørn E. Juel, Benjamin Thürer et al.
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Knowledge of which brain properties are required for consciousness is essential for improving clinical diagnostics and therapy as well as for investigating consciousness per se. The search for such properties has yielded many methods and measures for distinguishing conscious and apparently unconscious brain states. Here, we present a systematic literature review of 255 electroencephalography...
Mohammad Ali Taheri, Sara Torabi, Noushin Nabavi et al.
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Task fMRI has played a critical role in recognizing the specific functions of the different regions of human brain during various cognitive activities. This study aimed to investigate group analysis and functional connectivity in the Faradarmangars brain during the Faradarmani CF (FCF) connection. Using task functional MRI (task-fMRI), we attempted the identification of different activated and...
Paul Dennison
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Most if not all research into consciousness in neuroscience and philosophy has dealt with the consciousness we all live within from birth, which in Dennison (2019) I termed the “human default sensory consciousness”. This was to contrast this mode to a quite different form of consciousness that develops in the Buddhist practice of jhāna meditation. This little known practice implicitly requires...
Rhonda K. Rodgers, Vanessa L. Kettering, Jeremy P. Hunter
Organizational leaders and decision makers are searching for those who “do the right thing” regardless of moral complexities or cultural norms. Researchers have categorized these individuals as mindful, authentic, etc., and suggest their more attentive, and less reactive nature enables them to maintain unique ways of seeing, thinking, and acting in the world. Interest is building in secular...
Suvosree Bhattacharya, Pritha Mukhopadhyay
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Abstract Background Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have shown effectiveness in anxiety disorders with most studies suggesting moderate level of efficacy. Majority of the studies are based on outcome and efficacy measures of intervention. Enough attention on the process of intervention and mechanism of change in MBI has not been widely explored. In this context, the present study focused...
Anira Escrichs, Ana Sanjuán, Selen Atasoy et al.
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Abstract Over the past 2,500 years, contemplative traditions have explored the nature of the mind using meditation. More recently, neuroimaging research on meditation has revealed differences in brain function and structure in meditators. Nevertheless, the underlying neural mechanisms are still unclear. In order to understand how meditation shapes global activity through the brain, we...
Arthur Stewart
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Six prominent theories of consciousness (HOT, GWT, IIT, RPT, PP, AST) disagree about the mechanism that produces consciousness. They agree on what they import to operate as theories of consciousness at all. The paper reads the six theories in three registers. The explicit register reports what each theory publicly claims. The deployed register reports what each has to put to work for the claims...
Ashkan Farhadi
Consciousness is usually perceived as a state of being aware of one’s environment as well as self. Despite its omnipresence in our life, understanding this concept is challenging. This has given rise to several theories attempting to explain the nature of consciousness, as well as hard and soft problems of consciousness. In fact, the boundaries of consciousness defined by these theories are a...
Georgios Fradelos
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This paper advances a single central claim: within the present framework, a necessary architectural condition for consciousness is that an organism be able to reduce a high-dimensional field of sensory or informational complexity, decide that this reduction is good enough, assign the result to an internal object, accept that object as linked to the ontological object in the world, and compare...
Edwin Creely
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The arrival of generative artificial intelligence systems capable of fluent language, plausible images, and seemingly thoughtful responses has reignited a question in urgent terms: can a machine be conscious? This integrative review brings together philosophical argument, empirical evidence from psychology and neuroscience, and contemplative perspectives drawn from Buddhist thought to examine...