Cortex
December 1, 2019
S. Seghezzi, Gianluigi Giannini, L. Zapparoli
95 citations
Self-consciousness consists of several dissociable experiences, including the sense of ownership of one's body and the sense of agency over one's action consequences. The relationship between body-ownership and the sense of agency has been described by different neurocognitive models, each providing specific neurofunctional predictions. According to an "additive" model, the sense of agency...
Journal of Religion and Health
December 1, 2019
Milena Nardini-Bubols, Daniele Silva Da Silva, Andrea Dos Santos-Silva et al.
8 citations
Transpersonal approach in psychotherapy is a controversial field, and there is a lack in scientific information. A search of Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO and SciELO databases using: ["Altered states of consciousness" AND "Psychotherapy"] and ["Transpersonal" AND "Psychotherapy"] in December 2017 was conducted. From 629 articles found, 14 empirical studies were analyzed....
Continental Philosophy Review
November 30, 2019
Anna Bortolan
21 citations
In the contemporary phenomenological literature it has been argued that it is possible to distinguish between two forms of selfhood: the “minimal” and “narrative” self. This paper discusses a claim which is central to this account, namely that the minimal and narrative self complement each other but are fundamentally distinct dimensions. In particular, I challenge the idea that while the...
bioRxiv
November 29, 2019
Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood
preprint
Cognition is not always directed to the events in the here and now and we often self-generate thoughts and images in imagination. Important aspects of these self-generated experiences are associated with various dispositional traits. In this study, we explored whether these psychological associations relate to a common underlying neurocognitive mechanism. We acquired resting state functional...
Brain and Behavior
November 29, 2019
Davide Sattin, Matilde Leonardi, Mario Picozzi
Introduction: One of the hardest challenges of the third century is to develop theories that could joint different results for a global explanation of human consciousness. Some important theories have been proposed, trying to explain the emergence of consciousness as the result of different progressive changes in the elaboration of information during brain processing, giving particular...
November 28, 2019
Peter Carruthers
Abstract The present chapter argues that the problem of animal consciousness can’t be tackled directly, without commitment to any particular theory of consciousness. In the course of doing so, it discusses evidence of the existence of unconscious perceptual states, as well as one recent effort to put the emergence of consciousness into phylogenetic context. Finally, it outlines the constraints...
Human and Animal Minds
November 28, 2019
Peter Carruthers
Abstract This chapter shows that global-workspace theory can be developed into a satisfying, fully reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness. It shows how globally broadcast nonconceptual content enables higher-order thoughts about that content, where those thoughts can lack conceptual connections with physical, functional, or representational facts. As a result, zombies are conceivable...
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
November 27, 2019
Gustavo Sánchez Canales
To date, Rebecca Goldstein’s The Mind-Body Problem (1983) has been mostly analysed from two points of view. On the one hand, the significance of Renee Feuer’s Orthodox Jewish background in addressing the/her mind-body problem; on the other, the implications of the Holocaust for Noam’s life and, therefore, for the Noam-Renee relationship. Surprisingly, this novel has not been studied from a...
Clinical Neurophysiology
November 27, 2019
Olivia Gosseries, Matteo Fecchio, Audrey Wolff et al.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2019.11.011 1388-2457/ 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of In This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativ Cognitive trance is defined as a volitional, purposeful and selfinduced modified state of consciousness (inherited from shamanic traditional practice), characterized by lucid but narrowed awareness of...
November 26, 2019
Alan Page Fiske
What are often called ‘mystical’ experiences of union with divinity or with nature, as well as experiences on MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly) on sometimes other hallucinogenic drugs, typically consist of exceptionally strong kama muta motes. The communal sharing motives that ecstatic motes generate are so strong that they often transform identity and social relations. The phenomenology of mystical...