Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
May 1, 2018
Daniela Rabellino, Dalila Burin, Sherain Harricharan et al.
55 citations
Traumatic experiences have been linked to the development of altered states of consciousness affecting bodily perception, including alterations in body ownership and sense of agency, the conscious experience of the body as one’s own and under voluntary control. Severe psychological trauma and prolonged distress may lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Together, symptoms of derealization...
Disputatio
May 1, 2018
Nicholas D'Aloisio‐Montilla
Abstract The question of whether phenomenal consciousness is limited to the capacity of cognitive access remains a contentious issue in philosophy. Overflow theorists argue that the capacity of conscious experience outstrips the capacity of cognitive access. This paper demonstrates a resolution to the overflow debate is found in acknowledging a difference in phenomenological timing required by...
Neuroimage
May 1, 2018
Gregor Wilbertz, Madhura Ketkar, Matthias Guggenmos et al.
The phenomenon of bistable perception, in which perception alternates spontaneously despite constant sensory stimulation, has been particularly useful in probing the neural bases of conscious perception. The study of such bistability requires access to the observer's perceptual dynamics, which is usually achieved via active report. This report, however, constitutes a confounding factor in the...
Revista Ideação
April 30, 2018
Rafael Silva de Souza
1 citation
Através do pensamento de um dos mais influentes pensadores da filosofia da mente de nosso tempo, o filósofo australiano David John Chalmers, esse trabalho apresentará uma visão dualista da consciência que possibilita o desenvolvimento de teorias não reducionistas da consciência. Para esse propósito, faremos inicialmente uma distinção entre os problemas pertencentes ao desempenho de funções...
Explore
April 30, 2018
S. Schwartz
S omething very profound is happening in science, something not seen in more than a century is occurring: the paradigm of science is changing. Consciousness, particularly nonlocal non-physiological consciousness, is becoming mainstream. The world view of materialism is increasingly inconsistent with the reported experimental data in a spectrum of disciplines, as any search of PubMed,...
Psychiatria Polska
April 30, 2018
Joanna Szczotka, Bartosz Majchrowicz
18 citations
Theories of schizophrenia propose numerous mechanisms underlying development of this disorder, yet the account including satisfactory etiological explanation is still lacking. Current trend is to indicate core, basic factors which may further give rise to whole diversity of symptoms. Experimental data and patients' reports show that such key factor may be selfexperience disturbed on a basic,...
Philosophy Study
April 28, 2018
Marc Jean-Bernard
The philosophical horizon of this essay is theoretically comparative and hermeneutically dialogic. Its main philosophical and theological tonality expresses, in first person and through three discursive moments, the differentiated fusion of horizons between phenomenological and grammatical description and understanding of experience. After a philosophical overture—outlining the éthos of the...
April 27, 2018
Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko
The problem of consciousness relates to what the world is made of, how it began, the nature of selves, and above all the mind–body problem. In philosophy, dualism is the idea that mind and matter are distinct – a common belief in most societies and religions. In Cartesian dualism (described by René Descartes), mind and matter are separate substances. Objections to this, and other forms of...
April 27, 2018
Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko
Can the brain tell us everything we need to know about consciousness? Some materialists say yes, while theorists of ‘extended mind’ and ‘embodied cognition’ criticise ‘neurocentrism’ and say no. Mysterians claim that we can never understand consciousness at all. This chapter briefly reviews the anatomy and function of the human nervous system, from spinal cord to neocortex. In searching for the...
April 27, 2018
Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko
Introspection is essential to the study of subjective experience but is problematic. Some call for a special ‘first-person science’ of consciousness based on irreducible subjective facts; others claim that ‘first-person methods’ such as introspection, meditation, or other personal explorations and training are valid, but science is a collective enterprise and a science of consciousness is no...