Studia Leibnitiana
2017
Hans Poser
The mind-body problem is a central problem of modern philosophy. Leibniz’s Monadology as a model of a solution is picked up again and again even today. In order to characterize three of these completely different new monadologies of today, the basic difficulty of the mind-body-problem is outlined as a background, followed by a short sketch of the Leibnitian solution. - The first new monadology,...
Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
2017
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Rachel Menezes Aisengart
12 citations
Abstract This article consists of a theoretical review of the conjunction between lived experience of family belonging and religious encompassment in modern societies, resorting to data resulting from a comparative study of personhood, family and religion in urban Brazil, concentrated in a network of upper social strata and in a medical context of palliative care. In both contexts people move...
2017
R. Wallace
The Data Rate Theorem that establishes a formal linkage between control theory and information theory carries deep implications for the study of embodied cognition and its dysfunctions across human, machine, and composite man–machine cockpit entities. The stabilization of such cognition is a dynamic process deeply intertwined with it, constituting, in a sense, the riverbanks directing the flow...
Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe
2017
Matthew Owen
This study undertakes a comprehensive examination of neurofiction – a genre of literary fiction which has emerged in response to what scholars have termed neuroculture. Neuroculture refers to the cultural ascendancy of neuroscience witnessed by Anglo- American society over approximately the past thirty years, and the associated predominance of materialist conceptions of consciousness. By...
Animal Sentience
2017
Yoram Gutfreund
2 citations
Woodruff’s target article provides a detailed review of comparative studies on brain and behavior in teleosts. However, the relevance of the scientific data to the question of consciousness rests solely on the validity of a small set of so-called "requirements for consciousness." I use the target article to demonstrate that the neuroscientific study of animal consciousness in general relies on...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2017
James G. Matlock
Six neardeath experiences (NDEs) and three reincarnationintermission experiences (IEs) recorded between the 1880s and the 1950s among the Tlingit Indians of the southeastern Alaskan panhandle are compared to NDEs and IEs reported from other Amerindian peoples and are shown to have many features in common with them. Tlingit and other Amerindian NDEs are also similar to NDEs from smallscale...
Yakugaku Zasshi
2017
Kazuki Nagayasu
Growing evidence indicates that serotonergic neurons play a crucial role in brain function and dysfunction, such as in major depressive disorder. However, the complexity of serotonergic projections severely hampers the elucidation of their precise mechanisms. Here we summarize our recent studies on the effects of ketamine and olanzapine, which have been reported to be effective in...
2017
M. Woodruff
: Ray-finned fish are often excluded from the group of non-human animals considered to have phenomenal consciousness. This is generally done on the grounds that the fish pallium lacks a sufficiently expansive gross parcellation, as well as even minimally sufficient neuronal organization, intrinsic connectivity, and reciprocal extrinsic connections with the thalamus to support the subjective...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
2017
Hu-Quan Kang
1: Placebo effect sometimes plausibly has powerful effects. 2: Buddhism philosophy holds that every living animal is sentient, and has a consciousness and killing them is bad for the killer and freeing them is good somehow. Consciousness may involve some aspects of quantum mechanism as Roger Penrose’s Orch OR' theory of consciousness pointed out. 3: Although previous studies show that there is...
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
2017
Soichiro Arai, J. Takeno
Abstract What is “self-awareness”? How can explicit consciousness and sub-consciousness be mapped in relation to each other? How are they related to the self? How can these entities be represented in an artificial conscious system? These questions are the focus of this article. People are aware of only the behavior that they are focusing on; they cannot be directly aware of routine behavior...