Neuroimage
July 12, 2017
Candace R. Lewis, Katrin H. Preller, Rainer Kraehenmann et al.
105 citations
Psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, is an agonist of various serotonin receptors. Seminal psilocybin positron emission tomography (PET) research suggested regional increases in glucose metabolism in frontal cortex (hyperfrontality). However, a recent arterial spin labeling (ASL) study suggests psilocybin may lead to hypo-perfusion in various brain regions. In this...
July 9, 2017
Mamata Mandal
This paper presents an arrangement with the idea of Alayavijñāna, the Storehouse consciousness, of Buddhism, in parallel with the concept of consciousness itself within the modern world. Drawing from Buddhist philosophical traditions, particularly the Yogācāra school, this study investigates Alayavijñāna as the fundamental, general, and underlying consciousness to bring forth other forms...
July 8, 2017
Ajitpaul Mangat
1 citation
This paper argues that the autistic condition necessitates a reimagining of consciousness. Consciousness has been understood to be dependent on language. In so far as autism involves deficits in verbal communication, the individual with autism could, according to the classical model of consciousness put forward by the cognitive sciences, be understood to be impaired in or even lack...
July 8, 2017
Dániel Panka
1 citation
The paper examines the literary treatment of qualia in two sf novels each thematising the creation of an artificial intelligence: Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers and WhenHARLIEWas One (1972) by David Gerrold. The works exemplify two basic attitudes towards the qualia problem: Gerrold takes a typically postmodernist stance applying the maxim of the total superiority of language to reality,...
Consciousness and Cognition
July 8, 2017
Charlotte Martial, Vanessa Charland-Verville, Héléna Cassol et al.
24 citations
Memories of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) seem to be very detailed and stable over time. At present, there is still no satisfactory explanation for the NDEs' rich phenomenology. Here we compared phenomenological characteristics of NDE memories with the reported experience's intensity. We included 152 individuals with a self-reported "classical" NDE (i.e. occurring in life-threatening...
July 6, 2017
Svend Brinkmann
22 citations
Today's approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind...
July 5, 2017
Bruiger Dan
Mind-body dualism involves the radical difference between the first-person and third-person points of view—a distinction reflected directly in many languages. The mental must be physically embodied somehow; yet the physical is a concept in someone&s;s mind. This mutuality makes for a certain amount of tail-chasing confusion, rendering any definitive understanding of the mind-body relationship...
Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy
July 5, 2017
D. Shimkhada
One night I found myself seated at a table with a group of eminent people, enjoying dinner after attending an invitational lecture at the college where I taught. There was a biologist and a physicist in our midst; I was the only person qualified to be called a humanist. That particular semester I was teaching a course called “Theory and Practice of Yoga.” In one conversation during the evening,...
Res Rhetorica
July 1, 2017
Lance Cummings
1 citation
Since Thomas Kuhn’s revolutionary look at the social construction of science, research into the rhetorics of science has shown how science is a persuasive form of discourse, rarely as transparent and self-evident as is often understood. Rhetorical studies have taken this cue to examine how science is constructed through available means beyond mere logic. Arguably, the resurgence of creationist...
Cerebral Cortex
July 1, 2017
P. Tacikowski, Christopher C. Berger, H. Ehrsson
Conceptual self-awareness is a mental state in which the content of one's consciousness refers to a particular aspect of semantic knowledge about oneself. This form of consciousness plays a crucial role in shaping human behavior; however, little is known about its neural basis. Here, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a visual masked priming paradigm to dissociate the...