Within consciousness research, the most appropriate assessment of visual awareness is matter of a controversial debate: Subjective measures rely on introspections of the observer related to perceptual experiences, whereas objective measures are based on performance of the observer to accurately detect or discriminate the stimulus in question across a series of trials. In the present study, we...
Abstract This chapter presents the biological foundations for the authors’ position that life and sentience are coterminous, that all (and only) living organisms have a palpable internal, felt, experiential life, that they have valenced sensory inputs, and make appropriate determinations about the impact of the events that occur around and within them—that they are conscious beings. This...
For thinking, brain activity occurs, yet not every area of our brain is active when we think about various things. There are significant ramifications for cognitive psychology and neuroscience from functional brain areas. It should enable us to apply neurophilosophical theories to the brain. This review aims to draw attention to neurophilosophy and its focus on fundamental problems in...
In a conventional (Stroop) priming paradigm, it was well documented that objective prime-target incongruency delays response time (RT) to target compared to prime-target congruent condition. Recent evidence suggests that incongruency between the target and subjectively reported prime identity also delays RT over and above the classic congruency effect. When the prime is rendered invisible, the...
Abstract The standard approach in the field of consciousness research involves identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) by comparing neural activity between conscious and unconscious trials. However, this method has been met with criticism due to the lack of consensus on how to operationalize and measure consciousness. In this paper, I propose an alternative approach: the...
According to Kenneth Wilber, ‘Objective measurement and verification could no longer be the mark of absolute reality, because the measured object could never be separated from the measuring subject, the measured and the measurer. The blurring between subject and object is one of the cornerstones of the new physics and centrally important to any general understanding of the paranormal, since it...
It is shown that the formation of a «digital footprint» left by Internet users can be used to establish objective laws of thinking, which is not always based on logic in the classical (binary) understanding of this term. Real mechanisms of thinking can use, among other things, other varieties of logic that are actively being studied at the present time. «Digital traces» as information objects...
October 4, 2023Inês Hipólito, Sofia Tzima2 citations
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This paper argues that cultural embodiment plays a pivotal factor in shaping psychological experiences, influencing both the development and treatment of mental health conditions. Traditional analytic philosophy of mind proposes that the efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapy should be understood as a brain computational model update. Beyond the scientific understanding of neural activity, we...
This chapter explicates Nancy’s radical and foundational rereading of Descartes, first in the 1978 monograph, Ego sum, then over the course of the rest of Nancy’s work. Nancy reads Descartes’s cogito as singularly interrupted, or “iterative.” He urges us to grasp the foundational statement, ego sum, ego existo, as necessarily iterative, as having to be repeated in its singularity, “each time.”...
In Chapter 1, the authors laid out their view of Rogers as an organismic psychologist, implicitly drawing on process or process-relational philosophy. In this chapter, and drawing on the work of Jean Gebser, they consider the implication for a person-centred epistemology, that is, a theory of mind and consciousness.