2020
Ivan Fomin, I. Ran
The article presents an overview of the key arguments of Terrence Deacon's theory of how mind emerged from matter. Deacon’s emergentism is analyzed as a way of refocusing the «hard problem» of consciousness. He suggests considering the phenomenon of consciousness as a dynamic coupling of mutually constraining processes. Such coupling is the defining feature of the subjective self and other...
2020
Shotaro Niimi, J. Takeno
Abstract In this study the authors focused on mental disorders as functional disorders of human consciousness from the viewpoints of cognitive science and information science. They further focused their study on depression, a disorder that is the most frequently seen of mental disorders and whose cause is unclear. The authors propose a model of consciousness for the pathogenesis of major...
Critical Care Medicine
2020
Sam Parnia, Tara Keshavarz, M. M. Mullin
Introduction/Hypothesis: While many intensive care unit survivors report negative long-term psychological outcomes including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, some report a positive transformational outcome associated with the recall of a unique cognitive experience, often referred to using the poorly defined term of near-death experiences (NDE). This aspect of ICU...
Encyclopedia of Creativity
2020
S. Krippner
This article explores the association between creative experience and behavior, and those aspects of waking human consciousness often referred to as altered and transitional states. All these hypothetical constructs (e.g., ‘creativity’ and ‘consciousness’) are social artifacts, viewed differently from culture to culture. As a result, several cross-cultural comparisons are made that demonstrate...
Philosophy International Journal
2020
PC Mocombe
1 citation
This work explores the nature of reason and rationality in Paul C. Mocombe's structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism.The author, building on the quantum computation of ORCH-OR theory and the multiverse ideas of Haitian ontology/epistemology and quantum mechanics abductively posits that consciousness is a fifth force of nature, a quantum material substance/energy, psychion, the...
F1000Research
2020
Patrizio Tressoldi, Lance Storm
This meta-analysis is an investigation into anomalous perception (i.e., conscious identification of information without any conventional sensorial means). The technique used for eliciting an effect is the ganzfeld condition (a form of sensory homogenization that eliminates distracting peripheral noise). The database consists of peer-reviewed studies published between January 1974 and June 2020...
Open Theology
2020
J. Černý
Abstract The article consists of two parts. The first part outlines two conceptions of religious experience that can be found in the last three philosophical books of Michel Henry: the first, broad conception of religious experience is connected with the transcendental relation of human self to God as proposed by Henry; the second, narrower conception concerns the story of salvation as told in...
Open Theology
2020
Michael D. Barber
Abstract Phenomenologies of religious experience have been developed by Max Scheler and via Alfred Schutz’s frameworks of “multiple realities” and “finite provinces of meaning.” For both, religious experience resists the pragmatic imperatives of the mechanistic worldview or world of working. Schutz’s paradigm begins with a distinctive noetic religious epoché opening the religious province, in...
2020
S. Dada
Consciousness research in neuroscience focuses on the awareness of internal and external existence. Scientists and philosophers have spent centuries analyzing what consciousness really is. Yet, the subject of consciousness remains controversial. This is because consciousness has a subjective aspect, and as such it is difficult to test empirically. These problems are further amplified when...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2020
Elise G Rowe, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Marta I. Garrido
Detecting changes in the environment is fundamental for our survival. According to predictive coding theory, detecting these irregularities relies both on incoming sensory information and our top-down prior expectations (or internal generative models) about the world. Prediction errors (PEs), detectable in event-related potentials (ERPs), occur when there is a mismatch between the sensory input...