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CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
This chapter introduces seven long-standing problems of consciousness that seriously clash with the principles of classical physics and force some philosophers to defend flawed theories of consciousness that contradict our own introspective testimony. The problems are the physical boundary problem, the binding problem, the causal potency problem, the free will problem, the inner privacy...
CRC Press eBooks December 6, 2017 Danko Dimchev Georgiev
This chapter shows that classically there is no satisfactory physical mechanism that sets the boundary of the mind. It also shows that functional and reductive approaches have opposing implications for the causal potency of conscious experiences and the ability of human consciousness to evolve. Historically, the compatibility between free will and determinism has been the subject of a prolonged...
Scientific Reports December 5, 2017 Sakari Kallio, Mika Koivisto, Johanna K. Kaakinen 10 citations
Are synaesthetic experiences congenital and so hard-wired, or can a functional analogue be created? We induced an equivalent of form-colour synaesthesia using hypnotic suggestions in which symbols in an array (circles, crosses, squares) were suggested always to have a certain colour. In a Stroop type-naming task, three of the four highly hypnotizable participants showed a strong...
The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory December 4, 2017 Georg Theiner
The “extended mind” (EM) thesis asserts that cognitive processes are not bound by the skull or even skin of biological individuals, but actively incorporate environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, media, cultural practices, norms, groups, or institutions. By distributing cognition across space, time, and people in canny ways, we circumvent or overcome the biological...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science December 2, 2017 Michael Silberstein 5 citations
It is argued that when it comes to the hard problem of consciousness neutral monism beats out the competition. It is further argued that neutral monism provides a unique route to a novel type of panentheism via Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.
Physical review. E December 2017 Diego M. Mateos, Richard Wennberg, Ramón Guevara et al.
We seek general principles of the structure of the cellular collective activity associated with conscious awareness. Can we obtain evidence for features of the optimal brain organization that allows for adequate processing of stimuli and that may guide the emergence of cognition and consciousness? Analyzing brain recordings in conscious and unconscious states, we followed initially the classic...
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being December 1, 2017 Benjamin Brew, Ciaran Shannon, Lesley Storey et al.
Over recent years there has been a growing interest in identifying the early stages of psychosis. The At Risk Mental State (ARMS) is characteristic of the prodromal stages of psychosis and its identification gives rise to a number of clinical and research opportunities including early intervention and prevention of psychosis. This study employs interpretative phenomenological analysis to gain...
Balkan Medical Journal December 1, 2017 Kenneth Hugdahl
In this invited review article, I present a translational perspective and overview of our research on auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia at the University of Bergen, Norway, with a focus on the neuronal mechanisms underlying the phenomenology of experiencing "hearing voices". An auditory verbal hallucination (i.e. hearing a voice) is defined as a sensory experience in the absence of a...
Philosophy Compass December 1, 2017 Robert Eamon Briscoe 31 citations
Abstract The first part of this survey article offered a cartography of some of the more extensively studied forms of multisensory processing. In this second part, I turn to examining some of the different possible ways in which the structure of conscious perceptual experience might also be characterized as multisensory. In addition, I discuss the significance of research on multisensory...
Philosophical Perspectives December 1, 2017 Anil Gomes 9 citations
What method should we use to determine the nature of perceptual experience?My focus here is the Kantian thought that transcendental arguments can be used to determine the nature of perceptual experience.I set out a dilemma for the use of transcendental arguments in the philosophy of perception, one which turns on a comparison of the transcendental method with the first-personal method of early...