New research in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy merits a reexamination of the neurobiology and phenomenology of psychedelic states. First person accounts of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy are used to re-conceptualize the ego boundary as a defense mechanism which regulates the significance that objects hold for the self. Therapeutic action is attributed to ego dissolution, which enables...
The temporal structure of self-generated cognition is a key attribute to the formation of a meaningful stream of consciousness. When at rest, our mind wanders from thought to thought in distinct mental states. Despite the marked importance of ongoing mental processes, it is challenging to capture and relate these states to specific cognitive contents. In this work, we employed ultra-high field...
HeliyonJuly 1, 2019Mohammad Jamali, Mehdi Golshani, Yousef Jamali
In quantum approaches to consciousness, the authors try to propose a model and mechanism for the mind-brain interaction using modern physics and some quantum concepts which do not exist in the classical physics. The independent effect of mind on the brain has been one of the challenging issues in the history of science and philosophy. In some recent mind-brain interaction models, the direct...
This article reevaluates the mystical techniques and experiences peculiar to Abraham Abulafia’s Kabbalah and attempts to offer an alternative approach to their dominant understanding, which largely depends on Moshe Idel’s work. Current scholars of Jewish mysticism have a habit of highlighting the “unique character” of Abulafia’s mystical practices while asserting that they cannot be compared...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Knowing whether a subject is conscious or not is a current challenge with a deep potential clinical impact. Recent theoretical considerations suggest that consciousness is linked to the complexity of distributed interactions within the corticothalamic system. The fractal dimension (FD) is a quantitative parameter that has been extensively used to analyse the complexity...
Jonardon Ganeri's Attention, Not Self is groundbreaking. It shows a way to transform the rich theoretical vocabulary in Pāli commentarial tradition for concepts of mind, consciousness, and conscious states into an empirically informed philosophy of mind. The book is focused on commentaries attributed to a single philosopher, the fifth-century Theravāda monk Buddhaghosa. The title of the book...
An altered sense of the experience of time represents one of the nine dimensions that is conceived as characterizing a state of flow. While a number of other factors necessarily contribute to this overall experience of flow, subjective time perception is of particular quantitative interest and thus serves as the focus of the present meta-analysis. The extant body of relevant quantitative...
The aim of the study was to investigate differences in cortical networks based on the state of consciousness. Five subjects performed a serial-awakening paradigm with electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. We considered four states of consciousness: (1) non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep with no conscious experience, (2) NREM sleep with conscious experience, (3) rapid eye movement (REM)...
DiogenesJune 30, 2019Manol Manolov, Alexander Voznyuk
The article demonstrates some important direct and indirect facts about human consciousness being the main value of a man and human society, since consciousness is necessary and sufficient, system-forming quality of a human being as a representative of Homo sapiens. These facts enable to unfold some theoretical speculations helping to formulate some conclusions about consciousness revealing...
¿Cómo habitar, con nuestro cuerpo sensible y empático, un entorno descrito por un texto? El presente artículo explora dicha cuestión a partir de una serie de investigaciones desarrolladas a lo largo de las últimas décadas en el ámbito de las neurociencias en torno a la cognición encarnada y los estados alterados de consciencia. A partir de las investigaciones mencionadas, trataremos de...