Since the end of the last century, the problem of consciousness has come to the fore in the world science. The unresolved nature of this problem until today is connected with the insurmountability of the “border” between phenomenal and psychological (cognitive) consciousness. One of the directions for solving this problem is connected with the provision on the existence of different languages...
This is the first part of the article, which presents arguments in favour of an approach to consciousness, which is called illusionism. This is the view that phenomenal consciousness is illusory. According to illusionists, our sense that our conscious experiences are like something is a result of the fact that we systematically misrepresent them or their objects as having phenomenal...
This is the second part of the article devoted to the approach to the problem of consciousness, which is called illusionism. Illusionism claims that phenomenal consciousness is illusory, because conscious experience is misrepresented as having phenomenal properties. Illusionism replaces the hard problem of consciousness with the problem of illusion. In this part, special attention is paid to...
The Danish thinker and mystic Martinus presented a comprehensive metaphysical system that explores and explains a wide range of topics, from the nature of consciousness and reality to an objective ethics and the structure of a just and fair society. Although a mystic, his argumentative justification for this system is not based on transcendent experiences but instead on rational arguments and...
To explore the mindfulness practice, its long-term effects, facilitators and barriers, in clinical clerkship students 2 years after participation in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training. A qualitative study was performed by semi-structured in-depth interviews with 16 clinical clerkship students selected by purposive sampling. Students had participated in a MBSR training...
Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are present in multiple brain regions and produce complex influences on brain functioning. An increasing number of research findings indicate that the function of these interneurons is more complex than solely to inhibit pyramidal neurons in the cortex. They generate feedback and feedforward inhibition of cortical neurons, and they are critically involved in the...
Neural NetworksJanuary 2022Angela J Langdon, Matthew Botvinick, Hiroyuki Nakahara et al.
The intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) research has created synergistic effects in both fields. While neuroscientific discoveries have inspired the development of AI architectures, new ideas and algorithms from AI research have produced new ways to study brain mechanisms. A well-known example is the case of reinforcement learning (RL), which has stimulated...
The last decade has witnessed a remarkable progress in our understanding of the brain. This has mainly been based on the scrutiny and modeling of the transmission of activity among neurons across lively synapses. A main conclusion, thus far, is that essential features of the mind rely on collective phenomena that emerge from a willful interaction of many neurons that, mediating other cells,...
Hypnosis can be conceived as a unique opportunity to explore how top-down effects can influence various conscious and non-conscious processes. In the field of perception, such modulatory effects have been described in distinct sensory modalities. In the present study we focused on the auditory channel and aimed at creating a radical deafness to elementary sounds by a specific hypnotic...
The "theory of dissoanalysis", structured on an axis that has the closest interactional dynamic with each individual and social element of the "multiple consciousness system" and "multiple memory phenomenon" conjugated with traumatic experiences, has its scientific roots in modern psychotraumatology studies conducted by Öztürk, a trauma therapist and a psychohistorian. Dissoanalysis makes...