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Faith and destructiveness

Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Michael Eigen

A lot of therapy is about the slow recovery of faith, at least more of it, a more informed faith, wiser, fuller, ready for anything. Although S. Freud ostensibly developed a theory and clinical approach to neurosis, the author points out in The Psychotic Core that his concepts are heavily steeped in a phenomenology of psychosis. Freud spoke of flooding as a primal trauma. Mystics also attest to...

Mind-Body Relationship Based on Modern Neuroscience Research and Buddhist Meditation.

March 18, 2018 Polgolle Kusaladhamma

Neuroscientists and genetics started a new era in human history. Neuroscience is a modern science and it developed after 1950. Scientific study of the body investigates how the messages in transit from the senses to the brain and make decisions and feelings. The neuron system of the body is the coordinator of the transiting information in the body. Neurons are cells specialized for...

Consciousness and Dreams

March 15, 2018 Jennifer Windt 7 citations

Sleep is phenomenologically rich, supporting diverse kinds of conscious experience as well as transient loss of consciousness. Sleep is also cognitively and behaviorally rich, with different sleep stages supporting different kinds of memory processing as well as sleep behaviors ranging from subtle muscle twitches to seemingly goal-directed behaviors, as in sleepwalking, sleep talking, and rapid...

Integrated Information Theory

March 15, 2018 Francis Fallon 5 citations

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) accepts the Cartesian conviction that consciousness has immediate, self-evident properties, and outlines the implications of these phenomenological axioms for conscious physical systems. This characterization does not exhaustively describe the theoretical ambition of IIT. According to IIT, the physical state of any conscious system must converge with...

Multisensory Consciousness and Synesthesia

March 15, 2018 Berit “Brit” Brogaard, Elijah Chudnoff 1 citation

This chapter argues that the phenomenology of one type of multisensory experience that goes beyond mere co-consciousness derives exclusively from the individual sensory modalities. Call this type of experience "modal multisensory experience". The chapter also argues that another kind of normal multisensory experience that goes beyond mere co-consciousness requires a different treatment. The...

Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem in Indian Philosophy

March 15, 2018 Christian Coseru 3 citations

This chapter considers the sheer amount of literature associated with the exploration of consciousness in Indian philosophy. It focuses on a range of methodological and conceptual issues, drawing on three main sources: the naturalist theories of mind of Nyaya and Vaisesika, the mainly phenomenological accounts of mental activity and consciousness of Abhidharma and Yogacara Buddhism, and the...

Consciousness in Western Philosophy

March 15, 2018 Larry M. Jorgensen 21 citations

The search for consciousness in Ancient Greek philosophical texts may well be a fool&s;s errand. However, other scholars have noted some overlapping concepts or concerns in Ancient Greek texts, which—with the necessary translation—can be seen as in the family of issues related to consciousness. A naturalized theory is a theory that has no irresolvable "mysteries"—mysteries like those presented...

Consciousness and Emotion

March 15, 2018 Demian Whiting 7 citations

This chapter addresses three questions: first, what is meant by saying that emotions are conscious; second, why does it matter whether emotions are conscious; and third, is it the case that ­emotions are always conscious. The claim that emotions feel a certain way is consistent also with two further ideas. To begin with, it is consistent with the view that the what-it-is-likeness of emotion is...

Consciousness and Experimental Philosophy

March 15, 2018 Chad Gonnerman 2 citations

This chapter reviews research in the rapidly growing corner of the experimental philosophy of mind. A. I. Goldman and M. McGrath outline two ways of using cognitive science in epistemology. There are applications to the epistemic subject and applications to the epistemic attributor . One work that has shaped the experimental philosophy of consciousness is H. M. Gray, K. Gray, and D. Wegner....

A Deep Learning Model of Perception in Color-Letter Synesthesia

Big Data and Cognitive Computing March 13, 2018 J. Kathryn Bock 3 citations

Synesthesia is a psychological phenomenon where sensory signals become mixed. Input to one sensory modality produces an experience in a second, unstimulated modality. In “grapheme-color synesthesia”, viewed letters and numbers evoke mental imagery of colors. The study of this condition has implications for increasing our understanding of brain architecture and function, language, memory and...