Famously posed by seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes, the mind-body problem remains unresolved in western philosophy and science, with both disciplines unable to move convincingly beyond the dualistic model. The persistence of dualism calls for a reframing of the problem through interdisciplinary modes of inquiry that include non-western points of view. One such perspective...
Recent research on psychedelics and hypnosis demonstrates the value of both methods in the treatment of a range of psychopathologies with overlapping applications and neurophenomenological features. The potential of harnessing the power of suggestion to influence the phenomenological response to psychedelics toward more therapeutic action has remained unexplored in recent research and thereby...
Key theories of consciousness predict that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays important roles, but there has been relatively little causal evidence showing that manipulation of activity in the region can broadly affect conscious experiences. A new study provides crucial findings to help resolve this issue, showing that direct pharmacological stimulation of PFC restores wakefulness in...
Abstract Much phenomenological work on race has focused on the bodily experiences of persons of color in white spaces or in the face of the white gaze. But comparatively little has been written about how to change these bodily experiences. This article fills this gap by discussing the perspective of those who enact bodily habits alienate persons of color, or what this article calls “racializing...
중국 문명이 생겨난 과정과 발달정도를 논급할 때, 城市는 하나의 중요한 지표가 된다. 중국 고대 城市에 관한 연구 성과는 이미 많이 축적되어 있다. 이 논문은 주로 城市의 建造와 城市의 生活에서의 巫祝儀式에 대해 논의하고 있는데, 이는 기존의 연구자들이 그다지 주목하지 않았던 주제이다. 巫祝활동과 儒家의례는 때로 구분하기가 어렵지만, 여기서는 巫術 활동을 위주로 논의하고 후자도 겸하여 논하는 방식으로 진행한다.BR 『吳越春秋』에는 周나라의 先祖인 古公亶父가 邠(豳)에서 歧山으로 옮겨 기거할 때의 “居三月成城郭, 一年成邑, 二年成都, 而民五倍其初”라는 기록이 있다. 이는 처음 城郭을 건설하고 다시 邑과 都로 확장할 때, 城市의 발전 과정과 규모를 반영한다. 따라서 본문에서는 “都邑”의 개념을 사용하여,...
A vivid discussion revolves around the role of the human mind in the quantum measurement process. While some authors argue that conscious observation is a necessary element to achieve the transition from quantum to classical states during measurement (Wigner, 1963), some go even further and propose a more active influence of the human mind on the probabilities of quantum measurement outcomes...
This study, conducted by the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences (FREE), represents the first comprehensive investigation on individuals (N = 3,256) who have reported to have had various forms of contact experience (CE) with a non-human intelligent being (NHI) associated with or without an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP). Our...
The aim of this research is to examine the main concepts of human beings established by the saints and wise men in the Perennial Philosophy, and to reveal that the human view of Perennial Philosophy is consistent with the view of human beings of Daesoon Thought. In addition, Kant, who synthesizes Western modern philosophy, also sets out the ultimate goal of his philosophy of identifying human...
Why are we conscious?How can it be that information processed in the human brain is accompanied by subjective experience?An integral part of the problem of consciousness is the methodology of its solution.A lot of different methods in the study of consciousness, the author define as a convergence of the basic properties of consciousness in connection with the change in the methodological...
Notice: a peer-reviewed version of this preprint has been published in Behavior Research Methods and is available freely at http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1162-0 Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS) is a popular method for suppressing visual stimuli from awareness for relatively long periods. Thus far, it has only been used for suppressing two-dimensional images presented...