Abstract: Resilience is a character quality that enables people to successfully navigate difficult situations, change, and grow. Mindfulness is defined as paying attention to a state of consciousness that shows the mind is present and has a heightened and purposeful awareness of internal and external sensations occurring at a specific time. The aim of the present study was to investigate the...
Consciousness is a classical discourse among scientists, philosophers, and theologians across time and space. It has become a hard problem from many angles: What it is? How do we approach it? How it is being discussed? What is the objective? Etc. The vast scope of the topic causes consciousness to become an intriguing topic to many disciplines. This paper offers multidisciplinary research to...
Delta (1 – 4 Hz) EEG/MEG activity is generally indicative of loss of consciousness and cortical down states, particularly when it is diffuse and high amplitude. Remarkably, however, drug challenge studies of several diverse classes of pharmacological agents—including antiepileptics, GABA-B-ergics, anticholinergics, and psychedelic tryptamines—demonstrate that participants appear to be...
Behavioral SciencesJanuary 30, 2023Mohammed Laeequddin, K Abdul Waheed, Vinita Sahay
Research studies have established that mindfulness helps in psychological well-being, stress reduction, chronic pain management, behavioral therapy, and other areas including organizational development. Mindfulness often refers to a state of consciousness, but mindfulness can also be understood as a personality trait. State mindfulness is referred as the individual's capacity to cultivate a...
Consciousness refers to mental states of a cognitive agent that make it aware of elements of its environment and its own state. Phenomena of consciousness have been studied in Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of consciousness has broadened to include questions such as “When is an AI system conscious?”, “What role does...
The paper proposes to integrate literary studies in consciousness research to develop a strong ethical and existential dimension in the field. More specifically, it considers the value of fictional narrative for developing concepts of selfhood and personal identity that cohere with the reductionist explanations of human consciousness and self in modern empirical consciousness research. My...
In this paper we present an exploratory study on the understanding of reality among scientists. The nature of reality has been a conundrum for generations of theologians, philosophers, and scientists as well as the lay public. It also appears as a scientific problem in various disciplines, from physics to psychiatry and neuroscience. For the purpose of our study, we employed Chamber REST...
Objectives Contemplative practice can occasion powerful psychological experiences. Yet few empirical studies have investigated whether their occurrence is associated with intensive meditation-based interventions. Here, we assess the prevalence of profound, meaningful, and mystical experiences in experienced meditators during a month-long insight meditation retreat compared to a control group of...
Beyond the distinction between speech acts and acts of conscience (intentionale Erlebnisse) – certainly correct, but proposed with some oversimplification by certain handbooks –, the paper reflects on the logic of testimony and presence in the religious language. The point of convergence between analytical (in its pragmatic point of view) and continental philosophy (especially in the...
Abstract This chapter discusses findings from patients who have undergone commissurotomy and callosotomy using lateralization techniques. Commissurotomy is a neurosurgical procedure that aims to prevent seizure activity from generalizing from one hemisphere across the corpus callosum to the other. Complete commissurotomy patients are known as split-brain subjects. The chapter first reviews the...