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July 27, 2018 Henry M. Vyner
One of the tenets of the prevailing paradigm of modern science is the belief that it is not possible to empirically study the phenomena that appear in the stream of consciousness. Chapter 5 shows that not only is it possible, but that it is already being done. The chapter begins by bringing into focus the inescapable truth that the events that occur in the stream of consciousness—our thoughts,...
European Journal of Philosophy July 25, 2018 B. Rousse
In this paper, I critically examine Dan Zahavi's multidimensional account of the self and show how the distinction he makes among “ pre ‐ reflective minimal, ” “ interpersonal, ” and “ normative ” dimensions of selfhood needs to be refined in order to accommodate what I call “ pre ‐ reflective self ‐ understanding. ” The latter is a normative dimension of selfhood manifest not in reflection and...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) July 25, 2018 Louis-David Lord, Paul Expert, Selen Atasoy et al. 10 citations preprint
Abstract Brain activity can be understood as the exploration of a dynamical landscape of activity configurations over both space and time. This dynamical landscape may be defined in terms of spontaneous transitions within a repertoire of discrete metastable states of functional connectivity (FC), which underlie different mental processes. However, it remains unclear how the brain’s dynamical...
July 24, 2018 Наталья Сергеевна Жиртуева, Natal'ya Zhirtueva
The monograph studies the mystical phenomenon as the essential core of religion and its universal principle. The comparative analysis of mystical traditions formed on the basis of world and national religions is realized. They have common features as the endeavor to "unite" with the reality of Absolute, which contributes to the transformation of the consciousness and personality of a person...
July 20, 2018 Adam Green
The extended mind thesis holds that the mental is not restricted to what happens in the brain. Rather, one can think of the extended mind thesis as an outgrowth of broader, physicalist commitments. In particular, views of the mental that tie it very strongly to consciousness seem to be in a position to resist the extension of mind. One way of taking the origin and force of the extended mind...
July 20, 2018 Shaun Gallagher 60 citations
Discussions of constitution in the new mechanist literature and phenomenology, however, do share a concern with questions about cognition, consciousness and the origins of meaning as it arises in relations between mind and world. Some versions of embodied cognition, including enactivist and extended mind approaches, putatively require a diachronic conception of constitution that includes...
Frontiers in Psychology July 20, 2018 Marek Havlík, Karolína Mladá, Iveta Fajnerová et al. 3 citations
The elusive relationship between the mental domain and the physical brain, known as the mind-body problem, is still a hot topic of discussion among philosophers and neuroscientists. Rather than solving this problem, our pilot study addresses the question as to whether personality features could influence intuitions of the mind-body problem, or more precisely, whether it is possible to identify...
arXiv Preprint Archive July 20, 2018 Éric Merle preprint
I start from the fundamental principles of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, without probability, and interpret them using the notion of coexistence: a quantum state can be read, not uniquely, as a coexistence of other quantum states, which are pairwise orthogonal. In this formalism, I prove that a conscious observer is necessarily a physical object that can memorize local events by setting...
Oxford Scholarship Online July 19, 2018 J. Gatta
“Imagination,” a word evidently central to the vocation and sensibility of English Romantic poets, is likewise invoked often as a defining term in American literary history. But what are the theological implications of this crucial category, beginning with Coleridge’s seminal statements about it? How might the human faculty of imagination—often but doubtfully associated with an abstractly...
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience July 14, 2018 Kenji Hashimoto, Chun Yang
The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist (R,S)ketamine has been hailed as the most important advance in the treatment of depression for the past 50 years. The rapid and sustained antidepressant effects of (R,S)-ketamine have spurred a great deal of research interest, with growing off-label use for the treatment of depression, although the concerns about the safety of repeated...