CRC Press eBooks
August 17, 2018
Derek Steinberg
Baruch Spinoza described Mind as one of the attributes of God, the only other attribute knowable to Man being ‘extension’, or things, including the material body. Most of the modern neuroscientific literature on consciousness is monist, i.e. it assumes that the mind and consciousness are, indeed can only be, products of the physical brain. John Searle, in his excellent review of the work of...
CRC Press eBooks
August 17, 2018
Derek Steinberg
The state of the study of consciousness at the beginning of the twenty-first century involves, appropriately, a degree of bafflement and controversy, particularly over the question of the core nature or even existence of something called Self. As recently as 1995 Sutherland, in compiling his International Dictionary of Psychology , was able to say that ‘Consciousness is a fascinating but...
Journal of MCU Peace Studies
August 16, 2018
Phramaha Surachai Jayabhivaddhano, Sawat Anothai, Somboon Boondo
The objectives of this research are as followings: 1) to study the process of wisdom development in western and Buddhist philosophies; 2) to study the Essence of Mind (or Original Mind) in Zen and Theravada Buddhist philosophies; 3) to study western and Buddhist hermeneutics as the tools of dissertation; 4) to apply Buddhist hermeneutics on the Essence of Mind in the process of wisdom...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 15, 2018
Christopher Timmermann, Leor Roseman, L. Williams et al.
228 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Potential similarities between both subjective states have been noted previously, including the subjective feeling of transcending one's body and...
Pacific philosophical quarterly
August 14, 2018
Matthew J Davidson
1 citation
Abstract In this article, I explore various views on which mind–body dualism is true, but the soul is located in the body. I argue that this sort of dualism (which I call ‘somatic dualism’) once was a not‐uncommon view in the philosophy of mind. I also argue that it has the resources to reply to some of the problems thought to affect Cartesian dualism.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
August 10, 2018
Ken Solt
General anesthesia provides an invaluable experimental tool to probe the essential neural circuits that underlie consciousness. A new study reports that cholinergic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex restores wake-like behaviors in anesthetized rodents, suggesting that cholinergic inputs to the prefrontal cortex play a fundamental role in modulating consciousness.
August 9, 2018
Manuel Dries
Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our...
Behavioral Sciences
August 9, 2018
Andrea Schiavio, Dylan Van der Schyff
79 citations
Recent approaches in the cognitive and psychological sciences conceive of mind as an Embodied, Embedded, Extended, and Enactive (or 4E) phenomenon. While this has stimulated important discussions and debates across a vast array of disciplines, its principles, applications, and explanatory power have not yet been properly addressed in the domain of musical development. Accordingly, it remains...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
August 8, 2018
Tanya M Luhrmann, Ben Alderson-Day, Vaughan Bell et al.
74 citations
That trauma can play a significant role in the onset and maintenance of voice-hearing is one of the most striking and important developments in the recent study of psychosis. Yet the finding that trauma increases the risk for hallucination and for psychosis is quite different from the claim that trauma is necessary for either to occur. Trauma is often but not always associated with...
PLoS One
August 8, 2018
Stephen LaBerge, Kristen Lamarca, Benjamin Baird
59 citations
Lucid dreaming is a remarkable state of consciousness in which one is aware of the fact that one is dreaming while continuing to dream. Based on the strong relationship between physiological activation during rapid eye-movement sleep and lucid dreaming, our pilot research investigated whether enhancing cortical activation via acetylcholinesterease inhibition (AChEI) would increase the frequency...