Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background There is a growing body of empirical research that shows that psychological risk factors such as stress, type D personality, anger and hostility can lead to depression, anxiety, social isolation, and low socio-economics status. Psychological risk factors increase the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and contribute...
Revista de Gestão Social e AmbientalMay 23, 2023Fernando Campos Barbosa, Rodrigo Martins Tadine, Janaína Drawanz Pereira Rezende et al.1 citation
Objectives: Evaluate the available informations about dreams, analyzing hypotheses of the neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It is proposed to show discoveries of the dreams’ neurobiology as well as how psychology can explain this phenomenon, in order to observe an integration between these perspectives. Methods: For this literature review studies were selected (databases - MEDLINE, PUBMED,...
Research SquareMay 22, 2023Sylvain Penaud, Delphine Yeh, Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde et al.
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Abstract Recent studies suggest that the human body plays a critical role in encoding and retrieving episodic memories of past events, yet the precise relationship between bodily self-consciousness and memory formation, especially in real-life contexts, remains a topic of ongoing research. The present study investigated the relationship between bodily self-consciousness and episodic memory...
Contents of consciousness change over time. However, the study of dynamics in consciousness has been largely neglected. Aru and Bachmann have recently brought to the attention of scientists dealing with consciousness the relevance of making inquiries about its temporal evolution. Importantly, they also pointed out several experimental questions as guidelines for researchers interested in...
What does it mean for a thought, idea, belief, or wish to be about something? And what do we mean when we say that we are aware of thinking, presenting, believing, or wishing when we do? Much of the philosophy of mind of the 20th and 21st centuries has focused on these two questions. Perhaps due to a certain dominant way of doing the history of philosophy in England and the United States after...
Perception of one’s self and body in time and space are fundamental aspects of self-consciousness. It scaffolds our subjective experience of being present, in the here and now, a vital condition for our survival and wellbeing. Depersonalisation (DP) is characterized by distressing feeling of being ‘spaced out’, detached from one’s self, body and the world, as well as atypical ‘flat’ time...
Chan tea practice is a Chinese Buddhist practice (Zen in Japanese and English) that stresses the value of simple utensils, humble spaces and anti-performative values such as avoidance of self-consciousness, display or theatrical effects. Since 2019 I have been practicing under the guidance of a Chinese monk, VK, within a group of sangha members from a local Buddhist priory. In this essay, I...
Abstract In Matter and Memory, Bergson introduces theories of perception and memory that feature his concept of the virtual. Perception is virtual action and memory is virtual experience. Virtual existence is the mode of being common to tendencies, dispositions, generalities, and habits, as well as memories and the past itself. Bergson’s theory of memory is an alternative to practically...
Unprecedented advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) have given rise to ethical questions about how to recognize and respect autonomy and a sense of agency of the personhood when those capacities are themselves disordered, as they typically are in patients with DoC. At the intersection of these questions rests the distinction between...
Originally developed as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory provides a mathematical framework to quantify the causal irreducibility of systems and subsets of units in the system. Specifically, mechanism integrated information quantifies how much of the causal powers of a subset of units in a state, also referred to as a mechanism, cannot be accounted for by its parts. If...