bioRxiv
October 17, 2023
Matthew Zipple, Caleb Hazelwood, Mackenzie Webster et al.
preprint
Do animals have emotions? Scientists and philosophers have long struggled with this question, with debates ranging from whether animals experience an “internal world” to whether we are capable of studying it. Recently, theoretical, and methodological advances have rekindled this debate, yet, it is unclear where the scientific consensus on these topics lies today. To address this gap, we...
Brain
October 17, 2023
Laura Crucianelli, A. Reader, H. Ehrsson
Abstract The sense of body ownership (i.e. the feeling that our body or its parts belong to us) plays a key role in bodily self-consciousness and is believed to stem from multisensory integration. Experimental paradigms such as the rubber hand illusion have been developed to allow the controlled manipulation of body ownership in laboratory settings, providing effective tools for investigating...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
October 16, 2023
Marc Applebaum
7 citations
Mindfulness practices adapted from Theravada Buddhism have become widespread among many in Western societies who seek stress reduction and greater present-centeredness. Less well-known is the mindfulness practice in Sufism–the mystical path of Islam–known as meditative remembrance ( dhikr). While mindfulness is often understood as a self-help technique, the aim of Buddhist and Sufi meditative...
CRC Press eBooks
October 16, 2023
John Steven Torday
Consciousness is the aggregate of our evolutionary history, forged by ontogeny and phylogeny via cell-cell communication. Cell-cell signaling provides the connection of physiology all the way back to the origin of life, and to the consciousness of the Cosmos as the way in which gravity initiated life, i.e. as lipid molecules submersed in the ocean, packing together, their negatively charged...
October 16, 2023
George H Denfield, Evan J. Kyzar
preprint
Subjective experience is central to the nature of mental illness, yet it has not played a central role in most empirical approaches to psychopathology. Despite some recent progress, we lack detailed phenomenological models for psychopathological processes and mental disorders. Here, we present a framework through which such models could be constructed. This framework is derived from the Nested...
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
October 15, 2023
Dan Zahavi, Dominik Želinský
28 citations
Abstract Sociologists tend to see G. H. Mead's conceptualization of self as fundamentally correct. In this paper, we develop a critique of Mead's notion of the self as constituted through social interactions. Our focus will be on Mead's categorial distinction between the socially constructed self and subjective experience, as well as on the tendency of post‐Meadian sociologists to push Mead's...
PsyArXiv Preprints
October 14, 2023
preprint
Dissociation is a phenomenon characterised by a disconnection or detachment from one’s thoughts, identity, consciousness, or surroundings, and can manifest in various psychiatric disorders. Existing measures of dissociation vary considerably in quality and psychometric properties. A comprehensive systematic review of these measures is lacking. This review aimed to assess the psychometric...
Rangahau Aranga AUT Graduate Review
October 12, 2023
Cristian Rodriguez
Object-oriented cognition suggests that human thinking and perception are largely based on our interactions with objects in the world, and that our ability to recognise objects and understand their properties is fundamental to how we make sense of the world. Similarly, Enactivism emphasises the role of bodily interactions and experiences in shaping our cognitive processes, from imagining or...
Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences
October 12, 2023
Muhammad Ashir Shafique
The pursuit of artificial consciousness introduces profound ethical considerations despite the current absence of conscious machines. This study delves into the multifaceted dimensions of artificial consciousness, scrutinizing its components and the epistemological hurdles surrounding its comprehension. The intricate nature of consciousness mandates a comprehensive understanding before...
Psychiatriki
October 12, 2023
Orestis Giotakos
1 citation
In philosophy, intentionality involves directedness, aboutness, or reference of mental states. It seems to have intense connections with mental representation, consciousness, as well as evolutionary selected functions. Naturalizing intentionality, in terms of tracking or functional roles, is one of the most important goals in philosophy of mind. Such what-matters models would be useful,...