Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
June 27, 2022
Xiu-Yuan Liang, Zi-Hao Guo, Xiao-Dong Wang et al.
Classical notion claims that a memory is implicit if has nothing to do with consciousness during the information retrieval from storage, or is otherwise explicit. Here, we demonstrate event-related potential evidence for involuntary consciousness during implicit memory retrieval. We designed a passive oddball paradigm for retrieval of implicit memory in which an auditory stream of Shepard tones...
Linguistics Vanguard
June 27, 2022
S. Torres-Martínez
Abstract In an interesting paper, Casasanto, Daniel & Tom Gijssels. 2015. What makes a metaphor an embodied metaphor? Linguistics Vanguard 1(1). 327–337 introduce a skeptical view of recent studies into the embodied character of metaphorical source domains. According to the authors, there cannot be conclusive evidence on the matter thus far, since, for a metaphor to be embodied, specific...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
June 27, 2022
Hubert Gerwe, Feng He, Eline Pottie et al.
21 citations
Classical psychedelics are a group of hallucinogens which trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness through activation of the 5-HT2A receptor (5-HT2A R) in the brain. However, the exact mechanism of how 5-HT2A R agonism alters perception remains elusive. When studying receptor signaling, tools which work at the same spatiotemporal resolution as the receptor are exceptionally useful. To...
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
June 26, 2022
Anthony J. Lambert
ABSTRACT For most of the twentieth century, consciousness was the elephant in the living room of science – we all knew it was there, but no‐one wanted to talk about it. Aspirations for a science of consciousness faced an array of formidable philosophical, theoretical and methodological challenges, thought by many to be insurmountable. In recent decades, pessimism has been replaced by increasing...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
June 25, 2022
Paulina Wróbel-knybel, Michał Flis, Joanna Róg et al.
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state associated with the inability to move while conscious. Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis (RISP) is a type of REM parasomnia. Individuals experiencing anxiety disorders, PTSD, exposure to chronic stress, or shift work are at risk of developing this sleep disorder. This study aimed to assess: (1) the prevalence, frequency, and...
Religions
June 24, 2022
Johannes Bronkhorst
15 citations
This paper proposes to study mystical experience by contrasting it with “ordinary” experience, i.e., with standard consciousness. It emphasises the construed nature of standard consciousness and the role that the mutual connectedness of mental contents plays in its construction. It then shows that removal of the factors that are responsible for the “making” of standard consciousness accounts...
Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research
June 22, 2022
Paul C. Mocombe
This article vindicates the notion of Platonic forms within Mocombe's theory of phenomenological structuralism (PS).Mocombe uses his consciousness field theory to ground Plato's notions of forms as scientific fact.Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and things of the multiverse, which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
June 21, 2022
R. Evrard, E. Pratte, Th. Rabeyron
13 citations
In their recent paper, Parnia and colleagues propose a new label for the near‐death experience (NDE): recalled experience of death. They claimed NDEs are “authentic” only when an objective danger is present and that authentic NDEs have a proven core phenomenology. We consider that these claims are insufficiently supported by empirical data. NDEs appear as a continuum of heterogeneous...
Noûs
June 18, 2022
P. Epstein
: A recurring theme dominates recent philosophical debates about the nature of conscious perception: naïve realism’s opponents claim that the view is directly contradicted by empirical science. I argue that, despite their current popularity, empirical arguments against naïve realism are fundamentally flawed. The non-empirical premises needed to get from empirical scientific findings to...
PsyArXiv
June 18, 2022
Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin, Cedric Cannard et al.
preprint
The nature of consciousness is considered one of the most perplexing and persistent mysteries in science. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within today’s neuroscience is that all aspects of consciousness arise solely from interactions among neurons in the brain. However, the origin...