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2018 Jittiwat Narakornpaichit
One of the major debates in philosophy of mind is the complication about how to explain the manifestation of qualia in the scientific image. Qualia have usually been understood as phenomenal properties of mental states; and their resistance against physical explanation is famously demonstrated by Joseph Levine as the explanatory gap and by David Chalmers as the hard problem of consciousness....
IRIS 2018 Paolo Pecere
In this paper I offer an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond's thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I argue first that late 19th C. Germany is the neglected context of the emergence of what David Chalmers has called the «hard problem of consciousness», and I show that many contemporary thought experiments and arguments find their...
2018 Tina Lindhard 5 citations
Based on the Arka's theory of the six main levels of consciousness, this study predicted that people would show a trend towards a more Feeling-Mind heart-based consciousness after being trained to go below their thinking mind. In order to test this, a scale was constructed under the name of the Feeling Consciousness Scale (FCS). The scale items were based on Arka´s work and information derived...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Isabella Pasqualini, Maria Laura Blefari, Tej Tadi et al.
The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment. The interaction of the bodily senses with the space surrounding the body can be tested experimentally through the manipulation of multisensory stimulation and measured via a range of behaviors...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Sabrina Bhangal, Christina Merrick, Hyein Cho et al.
High-level cognitions can enter consciousness through the activation of certain action sets and the presentation of external stimuli ("set-based entry," for short). Set-based entry arises in a manner that is involuntary and systematic. In the Reflexive Imagery Task, for example, subjects are presented with visual objects and instructed to not think of the names of the objects. Involuntary...
Frontiers in Neurology 2018 Amelie Haugg, Rhodri Cusack, Laura E. González-Lara et al.
It is well established that some patients, who are deemed to have disorders of consciousness, remain entirely behaviorally non-responsive and are diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, yet can nevertheless demonstrate covert awareness of their external environment by modulating their brain activity, a phenomenon known as cognitive-motor dissociation. However, the extent to which these...
PLoS One 2018 Albert H Van der Veer, Adrian J T Alsmith, Matthew R Longo et al.
It is currently not well understood whether people experience themselves to be located in one or more specific part(s) of their body. Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used as a tool to study aspects of bodily perception and self-consciousness, due to its strong experimental control and ease in manipulating multi-sensory aspects of bodily experience. To investigate where people self-locate...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Jasmin M Kizilirmak, Violetta Serger, Judith Kehl et al.
When we are confronted with a new problem, we typically try to apply strategies that have worked in the past and which usually lead closer to the solution incrementally. However, sometimes, either during a problem-solving attempt that does not seem to lead closer to the solution, or when we have given up on problem-solving for the moment, the solution seems to appear out of nowhere. This is...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2018 Umberto Olcese, Matthijs N Oude Lohuis, Cyriel M A Pennartz
Neuronal activity is markedly different across brain states: it varies from desynchronized activity during wakefulness to the synchronous alternation between active and silent states characteristic of deep sleep. Surprisingly, limited attention has been paid to investigating how brain states affect sensory processing. While it was long assumed that the brain was mostly disconnected from...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Satoshi Shibuya, Satoshi Unenaka, Yukari Ohki
Bodily self-consciousness consists of agency (i.e., the feeling of controlling one's actions and causing external events) and body ownership (i.e., the feeling that one's body belongs to one's self). If a visual presentation of a virtual (fake) hand matches the active movement of a real hand, both the agency and body ownership of the virtual hand are induced [i.e., the active virtual hand...