Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 1, 2019
Romana Kress, Margaret Kerr
This paper will show the results of a study into the experience of using ritual in contemporary psychotherapy*. Dr. Kress and Kerr have named this experience psycheritual as it is relevant for psychotherapy work and is a form of transition ritual which has transformative properties. Psycheritual can be defined as: an intentional act of communication between the conscious and the unconscious,...
Neuroimage
March 1, 2019
Heonsoo Lee, Daniel Golkowski, Denis Jordan et al.
ABSTRACT Recent modeling and empirical studies support the hypothesis that large‐scale brain networks function near a critical state. Similar functional connectivity patterns derived from resting state empirical data and brain network models at criticality provide further support. However, despite the strong implication of a relationship, there has been no principled explanation of how...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2019
P. Craffert
28 citations
Abstract The growing body of research on near‐death experiences ( NDE s) is an indication of the large number of people claiming such experiences. A surprising feature of the research is that conceptually there is no agreement on what an NDE is and consequently a large number of definitions characterize this field of research. In order to address the definitional quagmire, a first step consists...
PsyCh Journal
March 1, 2019
Brice Martin, Nicolas Franck, Anne Giersch
14 citations
Phenomenologists have provided a detailed description of the disorders of the subjective experience associated with minimal-self disorders in patients with schizophrenia. Those patients report a range of distortions of their conscious experiences, including a sense of inner void, confusion between self and others, and, sometimes, a disruption of the sense of time. These reports have been...
PsyCh Journal
March 1, 2019
Sylvie Droit-Volet, Michael Dambrun
72 citations
What do humans mean when they say that time passes quickly or slowly? In this article, we try to respond to this question on the basis of our studies on the judgment of the passage of time and its links with the judgment of physical durations. The awareness of the passage of time when consciousness is altered by meditation is also discussed. A dissociation is then made among the "self-time...
PAAKAT: Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad
February 28, 2019
Alexandre Quaresma
A major difficulty for the engineers and designers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been to replicate consciousness. After all, it has always been assumed that only living beings may be conscious or not. The paper examines the nature of consciousness in the biological world and the conditions that must be fulfilled before consciousness can be attributed to some organism. States of...
TV Series
February 26, 2019
Florent Favard
This paper describes how the science fiction television series Westworld (HBO, 2016-present) questions the very nature of consciousness through a reflexive narrative blending matters of free will and self interest with clues on how to write a serial character, thus drawing on the rich heritage of narratively complex science fiction television series of the last decades. After detailing the...
Consciousness and Cognition
February 26, 2019
R. Prentner
43 citations
There are strong reasons to believe that our conscious inner life is structured, suggested both by introspection as well as scientific psychology. One of the most salient structural characteristics of conscious experiences is known as unity of consciousness. In this contribution, we wish to demonstrate how features of experience that pertain to the unity of consciousness could be made precise...
L’Année psychologique
February 22, 2019
James H. Smith-Spark
Ce commentaire examine les arguments avancés dans l’article de Kolinsky et Morais du point de vue de leur application à deux domaines de la recherche et de l’intérêt scientifique de l’auteur. Dans un premier temps, leur pertinence pour l’étude de la cognition dans la dyslexie du développement est évaluée, soulignant l’impact possible du port de « lunettes lettrées » dans la conception des...
February 21, 2019
Kevin M. Fisher
The significance of altered consciousness in cinema hinges on the medium’s unprecedented ability to turn the visual consciousness of an Other inside-out onscreen, making it visible and inhabitable to the spectator. Cinema thus transcends the limits of intersubjectivity through a ‘double occupancy of vision’, which it may predicate to the consciousness of any fictional character. Cinematic...