Asian Philosophy
January 2, 2015
Monima Chadha
11 citations
One of the major aims of this article is to provide the theoretical account of mindfulness provided by the systematic Abhidharma epistemology of conscious states. I do not claim to present the one true version of mindfulness, because there is not one version of it in Buddhism; in addition to the Abhidharma model, there is, for example, the nondual Mahāmudrā tradition. A better understanding of...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2015
Irving C. Statler
3 citations
For centuries, the question of how a physical structure (the brain) generates the subjective feeling of consciousness has plagued neuroscientists, physiologists, psychologists, linguists, and philosophers. This has become known as the “hard problem of consciousness” and has been the subject of many publications. Although lots of answers have been proposed, none has been completely satisfactory....
International Journal of Yoga
2015
Hetal Amin, Rohit Sharma
Ayurveda is known for philosophical basis, and its approach to psychological ailments is quite different from conventional system of management. Satvavajaya Chikitsa (Ayurvedic psychotherapy) is a nonpharmacological approach aimed at control of mind and restraining it from unwholesome Artha (objects) or stressors. Withdrawal of the mind from unwholesome objects is known as Sattvavajaya Chikitsa...
Open Journal of Philosophy
2015
Sung Jang Chung
5 citations
The deeper structure of leptons and quarks is still not experimentally and/or objectively clearly elucidated. No detailed accepted theory is yet established. Consequently, experimental and theoretical physicists have been investigating to find experimental or objective proofs related to the deeper structure of fundamental elementary particles in quantum physics. The author proposed a hypothesis...
Comprehensive Psychology
2015
Miloslava Kozmová
5 citations
Emotions dreamers experience in dreams are considered simple experiential awareness and theorized as primary consciousness. The current study investigated emotions as part of a core variable of the problem-solving phenomenon. 979 dreams were analyzed by the method of grounded theory with questions applied through constant comparative analysis to individual instances of dreamers' problem...
Psychopathology
2015
Thomas Fuchs
57 citations
While the concept of disorders of basic self-experience as the clinical core of schizophrenia spectrum disorders has gained increasing significance and empirical support, several questions remain still unresolved. One major problem is to understand how the basic and prodromal self-disturbances are related to Schneider's first rank symptoms, in particular to the so-called 'ego disorders' found...
Avant
2015
Jacek Olender
The paper discusses artworks and artefacts considered as both cultural heritage and meaningful tokens for personal self-identity.The arguments come mostly from phenomenological understanding of self-identity and art, but the terminological toolkit comes mostly from the Extended Mind Thesis.While many museologists and theorists of culture argue that objects presented in a particular social...
Godisnjak Fakulteta za kulturu i medije - komunikacije mediji kultura
2015
Tatjana Đ. Milivojević, Borivoje Baltezarević
Many authors have claimed that magic is a characteristic form of belief in primitive communities, pertaining to a human still lacking the full capacity of abstract or logical reasoning. According to the evolutionary view, the magical thinking is a lower, prerational stage in the development of consciousness, which is characterized by perceptual, sensory thinking, i.e. thinking in images rather...
Balkan Journal of Philosophy
2015
Michel Weber
Rationality and consciousness are strictly correlated. If one evolves, the other necessarily changes accordingly. Of all the possible modes of inquiry, this paper adopts a process genetic perspective informed by the historical speculations of Julian Jaynes. First, we co-define consciousness and rationality. Second, we take up again Jaynes’s insight: (proto-)consciousness has a history, or...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2015
Alexander Batthyány
Abstract: Near-death experiences (NDEs) entail complex and structured conscious experience during conditions known to coincide with rapid loss of consciousness often associated with decline or disruption of the neurological correlates currently held to be causative factors of visual imagery and cognition. In this study , 653 NDE reports of cardiac and/or respiratory arrest patients were...