Both voluntary mental imagery and dream imagery involve multisensory representations without externally present stimuli that can be categorized as offline perceptions. Due to common mechanisms, correlations between multisensory dream imagery profiles and multisensory voluntary mental imagery profiles were hypothesized. In a sample of 226 participants, correlations within the respective state of...
Unusual bodily experiences (UBEs) are illusory perceptions involving the body and its surroundings, such as body distortions and out-of-body experiences. This study examines UBEs in a controlled sleep laboratory using meditation and light stimulation to facilitate their occurrence. A total of N=35 healthy participants underwent high-density EEG with additional EMG, EOG, and ECG recordings....
The nature of the relationships between qualitative aspects of consciousness, or qualia, and their physical substrates remains unclear. The problem of qualia is one of the biggest challenges among the enigmas of consciousness. One difficulty in qualia research is characterization of qualia. Verbal descriptions and simple behavioral responses are unable to capture the richness of qualia, the...
Данная работа призвана дать ответ на вопрос: может ли быть найдена какая-то связь меж ду классическим панпсихизмом Алексея Александровича Козлова и современным панпси хизмом в аналитической философии сознания? Рассматриваются основные особенности панпсихизма Козлова и трудности, возникающие на пути современной интерпретации его учения. На протяжении работы автор демонстрирует варианты...
ABSTRACT Aim To discuss reflexivity for conducting hermeneutic phenomenology and to present the hermeneutic phenomenological circle. Design Discussion paper. Methods We employed data on the lived experience of loneliness of older adults in residential care homes during the COVID‐19 pandemic to demonstrate the reflexivity required for hermeneutic phenomenology. We showcased a reflective process...
This paper explores the experience of receiving a fatal medical diagnosis. It is meant to shed light on a phenomenon that, for obvious reasons, rarely gets reported on. The narrative takes one through the business of navigating a flawed medical system in search of an accurate diagnosis—and finally accepting that one’s condition is dire and untreatable. It is about bumping up against this wall...
There is growing scientific interest in advanced meditation, and particularly the Theravada Buddhist advanced concentrative absorption meditation known as jhana (ACAM-J). ACAM-J includes a series of eight consecutive meditative states, which are radically altered states of consciousness. The neuroscience of ACAM-J, specifically brain reorganization, remains underspecified in part due to the...
El funcionalismo se ha convertido rápidamente en la concepción preponderante en la filosofía de la mente y en el nuevo campo de la ciencia cognoscitiva. El funcionalismo y, en general, la construcción de teorías en estas áreas, se enfrentan a dos obstáculos: las propiedades funcionales y las propiedades semánticas. Estas constituyen obstáculos porque no está claro como puede tener eficacia...
The concept of the phenomenology of the experience of values in the views of Max Scheler in its connection with the functioning of the worldview is investigated in the article. It is established that values are based on the phenomenology of the experience of values. On the basis of the phenomenological axiology of Max Scheler, it is shown that the phenomenology of the experience of values is a...
Phenomenology as a research method is rooted in rigorous examination of first-person experiences, and identifying that which is essential to the appearance of the object. Phenomenology offers several important strengths that make it critical to include as a supplemental method to more empirical approaches. Strengths of phenomenology include the restoring of the lived world as the foundation of...