Jurnal Riset Jurnalistik dan Media Digital
July 15, 2023
Muhammad Aldy Febiansyah, Firmansyah, Dadi Ahmadi
2 citations
Abstract. The film How To Change Your Mind is a film whose title explains that we have to change our thinking when watching this film. This film tells about how Michael Pollan and also the narrator in the film tell and explain how psychedelics change our minds. Psychedelic which means "Mind Manifestation" is an effect or condition when we try substances that have psychedelic effects or are now...
The Person and the Challenges The Journal of Theology Education Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
July 14, 2023
Tadeusz Pabjan
The issue of the relation between the mind and the brain is known as one of the most discussed problem of the philosophy of mind. The recent development of neuroscience contributed significantly to animate the discussion on this subject. This article is one voice in this discussion. It contains a critical analysis of some arguments in favor of the theory which claims that the mind is identical...
HUMANITARIAN STUDIOS: PEDAGOGICS, PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY
July 14, 2023
Kostyantyn Derid, Vera Dodonova
The article examines the modern discourse on the problem of consciousness in the context of theories about the biological and physical basis of consciousness. In order to consider problematic issues of consciousness, two theoretical approaches to consciousness are analyzed: Michael Graziano's attention schema theory and Bernard Baars' global workspace theory. By describing the key...
arXiv Preprint Archive
July 13, 2023
Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica
preprint
Physical systems are characterized by their structure and dynamics. But the physical laws only express relations, and their symmetries allow any possible relational structure to be also possible in a different parametrization or basis of the state space. If observers were reducible to their structure, observer-like structures from different parametrizations would identify differently the...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
July 13, 2023
Brian L Edlow, Mark Olchanyi, Holly J Freeman et al.
preprint
Consciousness is comprised of arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness. Substantial progress has been made in mapping the cortical networks that modulate awareness in the human brain, but knowledge about the subcortical networks that sustain arousal is lacking. We integrated data from ex vivo diffusion MRI, immunohistochemistry, and in vivo 7 Tesla functional MRI to map the connectivity of a...
Routledge eBooks
July 11, 2023
Helen Carter
This chapter sets out how the practice of a Buddhism-informed therapy and the themes presented in the book have necessitated the author to reflect upon the nature of self, its composite parts, and the experiences of them. She invites the reader to ponder “how does ‘self’ incorporate the aspects of spirit and soul?” and other dichotomies such as self and Self, Self and non-self. Theories and...
July 11, 2023
Heidi Haanila
The capacity to reflect on oneself is of utmost importance to human personhood. To elaborate on the manifold forms of reflective self-consciousness, this article endorses a multidimensional conception of self, according to which self-reflection essentially involves an experiential dimension. While classical analyses of reflective self-consciousness have highlighted unique epistemic and...
Research Square
July 11, 2023
Lucy Jane Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green
preprint
Abstract Exploring Southern African contemplative traditions addresses an important gap in the fields of mindfulness and contemplative science. In contrast to meditation practices drawn from Eastern wisdom traditions, practices embedded in African spirituality are sound- and movement-based and conducted in community settings. During a research retreat in South Africa, attended by traditional...
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...