Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
July 11, 2023
M. Cleerens, Veerle Leenaerts, Sandra Verelst
Nitrous oxide: no laughing matter In this case study, the authors discuss the dangers and medical relevance of the increasing recreational use of nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is a legal and readily available gas that has been gaining popularity as a drug in recent years, especially among young people. Unlike medicinal use where the nitrous oxide is mixed with oxygen, this is not the case when...
July 10, 2023
Loriliai Biernacki
This chapter offers a comparative assessment of the 11th-century Hindu philosopher Abhinavagupta’s nondualist Tantric panentheism, the Pratyabhijñā, or Recognition philosophy in relation to a contemporary, currently popular neuroscientific theory addressing the relation between the mind and the body, Integrated Information Theory (IIT 3.0). Drawing on earlier work pointing to the logical...
Body Politics
July 10, 2023
Caroline Welsh
English Abstract: In contemporary theories of embodiment, resonance is used frequently to emphasize the complex interdependencies between body, mind and environment. A closer look at scientific, philosophical, and aesthetic theory of the enlightenment shows that resonance as a metaphor and figure of thought, describing increasingly complex phenomena of interaction and interdependencies, was...
Theory & Psychology
July 10, 2023
Henrik Høgh‐Olesen
1 citation
An overview is provided of the psychological constituents of the emotional register, and special focus is given to the longer-lasting existential moods—our being-attuned to being—that we as humans experience. The classic concepts of existentialism (Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre) are reviewed and challenged. Moods, such as emptiness, meaninglessness, existential anxiety for freedom and...
Journal of Personality
July 9, 2023
Stephanie C. Goodhew, Mark J. Edwards
1 citation
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether there are individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable images, and if so, to identify some of the psychological factors that predict them. BACKGROUND: Bistable images - which have two competing perceptual interpretations - have long been used in the scientific study of consciousness. Here we applied a different lens and investigated emotional reactions...
July 7, 2023
Galen Strawson
1 citation
Abstract This chapter offers an account of what a genuinely realistic materialism or genuinely realistic physicalism looks like. (The key is that it must be all-out realist about consciousness.) It combines this with an exposition of some of the work of Charles Augustus Strong—who is, according to this account, an exemplary, genuinely realistic materialist. C. A. Strong, who has been almost...
July 7, 2023
Megan A. K. Peters
2 citations
preprint
In this article, I discuss recent media attention paid to consciousness research through coverage of the “25 years of consciousness” event at the 2023 Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness annual meeting, including:NatureScienceThe EconomistThe New York TimesScientific AmericanScienceAlertTheDebriefNewScientistNautilusI present critical additional context to these pieces,...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 7, 2023
Alessandro Guardascione
2 citations
This paper presents a critical comparison between two phenomenological accounts of schizophrenic experience: on the one side, Blankenburg’s seminal work on the basal disturbance (Grundstörung) of schizophrenia as loss of natural self-evidence (Natürlichen Selbstverständlichkeit); on the other side, Tatossian’s insight, briefly elaborated in a lecture presented in Heidelberg in 1994 and largely...
July 7, 2023
Preston Lennon
41 citations
Abstract The sensory constraint on conscious thought says that if a thought is phenomenally conscious, its phenomenal properties must be reducible to some sensory phenomenal character. This chapter argues that the burgeoning psychological literature on aphantasia, an impoverishment in the ability to generate mental imagery, provides a counterexample to the sensory constraint. The best...
July 7, 2023
Davide Bordini
5 citations
Abstract Since the 1990s the so-called transparency of experience has played a crucial role in core debates in philosophy of mind. However, recent developments in the literature have made transparency itself quite opaque. The very idea of transparent experience has become quite fuzzy, due to the articulation of many different notions of transparency and transparency theses. Absent a unified...