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2019 C. Coseru
The thriving contemporary enterprise of Consciousness Studies owes its success in large measure to two late 20th-century intellectual developments in cognitive science and its allied philosophy of mind: a growing interest in the study of the neurobiological processes that underlie consciousness and cognition, and the rehabilitation of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness...
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2019 Samuel J Gershman
The idea that the brain learns generative models of the world has been widely promulgated. Most approaches have assumed that the brain learns an explicit density model that assigns a probability to each possible state of the world. However, explicit density models are difficult to learn, requiring approximate inference techniques that may find poor solutions. An alternative approach is to learn...
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology 2019
Consciousness studies have nowadays become a general and an open question in the research areas. As the result of this situation, there are many research papers on this topic. Under this situation, it is worthwhile considering a present direction and a reason of those studies in order to find out a next direction and the reason for the further research. Then, from those the direction and the...
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology 2019
In this chapter, wet consciousness and dry consciousness will be defined. For doing the definitions, it illustrates the differences between wet consciousness and dry consciousness under the understandings at present. Wet consciousness is a living creature brain and dry consciousness is an entity made by a digital computer. Naturally, consciousness itself is also argued on what it is and on its...
University of Cambridge 2019 Ioannis Pappas
How do we define consciousness? Besides philosophical endeavours, the development of modern neuroimaging techniques fostered a principled way of quantifying the neural correlates of consciousness. Acquiring and analysing resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) data, has allowed neuroscientists to noninvasively map the brain's functional...
Progress in Brain Research 2019 Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Federica Mauro, Stefano Lasaponara et al.
Absorption, the ability to highly focus attention, as well as openness to self-altering experiences, is an important psychological construct, closely related to deep-meditation states and other altered states of consciousness. Yet, little is known about the electrophysiological profile of states of absorption, possibly due to the difficulty to induce this state in the lab. While most studies...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019
Archaeological studies have found evidence of ritual consumption of psychoactive plants among native cultures in South America. However, the evidence is fragmentary, preventing researchers from piecing together a coherent picture of hallucinogen use in ancient South America. Melanie Miller et al. (pp. 11207–11212) analyzed the chemical makeup of artifacts in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle...
Journal of cultural and social anthropology 2019 Paul C. Mocombe
This work highlights the nature and origin of consciousness in the universe according to Paul C. Mocombe‟s (2016, 2017, 2018) 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...
Siberian Journal of Philosophy 2019 M. Shcheglova
Speaking about the philosophy of mind researchers address the concept of «qualia». In spite of the fact that this term entered the philosophical discourse at the beginning of the 20th century, the legitimacy of its use is still in question. The starting methodological point of the dispute is whether it is necessary to study the quality nature of consciousness separately or we can treat this...
Open Theology 2019 Michael D. Barber
Abstract Amplifying the idea of religious experience as occurring within an encompassing “religious province of meaning” and developing the personal character of the experience of God in the Abrahamic religious traditions, this paper argues that mystics in those traditions experience God “objectively.” Their experience of God is that of experiencing God as what Alfred Schutz called a...