Predicting recovery of consciousness in patients who survive their coma but evolve to a vegetative state (recently coined unresponsive wakefulness syndrome) remains a challenge. Most previous prognostic studies have focused on the acute coma phase. A novel outcome scale (combining behavioural, aetiology, electroencephalographic, sleep electroencephalographic and somatosensory evoked potential data) has been proposed for patients in subacute unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. The scales clinical application awaits validation in a larger population.
Poster (2017, March). INTRODUCTION: Following severe acute brain damage, patients typically evolve from coma to an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/VS; wakefulness without awareness) and later to a ... [more ▼]. INTRODUCTION: Following severe acute brain damage, patients typically evolve from coma to an unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/VS; wakefulness without awareness) and later to a minimally conscious state (MCS; fluctuating but consistent nonreflex behaviors). MCS is subcategorized in MCS+ (i.e., command following) and MCS- (i.e., visual pursuit, localization of noxious stimulation or contingent behaviours). Reliable and consistent interactive communication and/or functional use of objects indicate the next boundary - emergence from MCS (EMCS). To date, there is still no reliable predictive model of recovery from the UWS/VS and the MCS. A better understanding of patients outcome would help in decisions regarding patients care and ...
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PhD student (FNRS : clinicien chercheur doctorant).. Promoters : Pr. A. Mouraux; Pr. S. Laureys (Liège Coma Science Group). As a neurorehabilitation clinician, I am in charge of a care unit for patients with prolonged disorder of consciousness (i.e. patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or in minimally conscious state). The aim of my research project is to understand how these severely brain injured patients are able to perceive pain using non-invasive methods such as surface EEG recordings. These investigations should also be of interest to develop a novel approach to study the relationship between pain perception and consciousness.. ...
Many theistic apologists have claimed that the existence of non-physical consciousness proves the existence of God. However, this is by no means obvious. In contemporary philosophy, the most prominent defenders of non-physical consciousness are atheists. This is true of both John Searle and David Chalmers. Other examples of nontheistic philosophers who reject the physicalist view of consciousness are Thomas Nagel and Paul Draper. At the popular level this view has been promoted by Sam Harris. What theists need is an argument that consciousness is evidence for the existence of God, but they rarely bother to try to give such an argument. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro have claimed to present such an argument, but they seem to be stuck in the same confusions as other theists. For example, they talk about restrict[ing] ourselves... to the explanatory framework of an ideal physics with mass and energy, which misses the point, because this is not the approach taken by philosophers such as ...
Many theistic apologists have claimed that the existence of non-physical consciousness proves the existence of God. However, this is by no means obvious. In contemporary philosophy, the most prominent defenders of non-physical consciousness are atheists. This is true of both John Searle and David Chalmers. Other examples of nontheistic philosophers who reject the physicalist view of consciousness are Thomas Nagel and Paul Draper. At the popular level this view has been promoted by Sam Harris. What theists need is an argument that consciousness is evidence for the existence of God, but they rarely bother to try to give such an argument. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro have claimed to present such an argument, but they seem to be stuck in the same confusions as other theists. For example, they talk about restrict[ing] ourselves... to the explanatory framework of an ideal physics with mass and energy, which misses the point, because this is not the approach taken by philosophers such as ...
Your brain doesnt care who you are. Your brain probably doesnt even know you exist. So how does consciousness arise from the aggregate of trillions of cells, none of which (we think) are conscious? Im no expert in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience or any other field for that matter. One, two or thirty Google searches later and Im still no expert. Its a real big banger of a question. It is the hard problem. Do our brains create consciousness? How do we have consciousness? First of all, what is consciousness? We only ever have access to one consciousness - our own. We canonly see the physiological and behavioural correlates of others consciousness - attention, self-awareness, comprehension and so on. All consciousness that is not our own is inferred from behaviour. We consider other people as conscious only because they seem conscious. Consciousness is an immaterial thing, so we cannot observe it. Because it is an inherently subjective experience, its impossible to define it with third ...
My old friend Andy and I have two theories for what accounts for consciousness: Andy says his impressionistic idea of consciousness is that it is characteristic of sophisticated nervous systems and thus diminishes down the phylogenetic scale. In his view, consciousness is a consequence of a nervous systems myriad sensory input, making any creature down the phylogenetic scale less conscious than those up that scale. My only argument with his theory is that it is too narrow. For me, consciousness feels a great deal deeper. I think of consciousness, especially the synchronous, spontaneous moment-to-moment experience side of consciousness, as a consequence of quantum weirdness. Deep down quantum non-locality tunes the individuals consciousness into all of it - cosmic consciousness I guess youd say. Isnt this why, as chapter 21 puts it, As a thing the way is Shadowy, indistinct.. Andy maintains that the more sophisticated the nervous system, the more conscious. Conversely, I say everything ...
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Conscious-Robots.com is an Internet portal dedicated to the scientific research in Machine Consciousness. This field of artificial intelligence is very much related to cognitive robotics, and the following terms are often used as synonyms: Artificial Consciousness, Synthetic Consciousness and Robot Consciousness. Although much more detailed definitions can be found in these web pages, we could briefly define Machine Consciousness as the research on producing consciousness in an artificial device (like a robot) using engineering techniques. Understanding human consciousness is a great challenge, hence Machine Consciousness problem is even harder. There is no doubt that these problems have to be addressed from multiple disciplines. This site aim to follow this multidisciplinary approach including information and resources from many fields, from philosophy to genetic programming ...
Deepen your understanding of quantum physics and expanded states of awareness with Quantum Consciousness, an enlightening guide that helps you pull science and spirituality closer together. This book invites you to tour alternate realities, parallel lives, interdimensional consciousness, and even the very fabric of the universe. Specially emphasized are four aspects of quantum consciousness-the Creator Effect, Intanglement, Everywhereness, and Holographic Healing. Youll also find a detailed exploration of the various realms of consciousness, including stored consciousness, alternate consciousness, parallel consciousness, and interdimensional consciousness. Quantum Consciousness helps you make life-changing discovers and move past the limitations of your current mindset.. ...
Your nature is the consciousness, in which the whole world wells up, like waves in the sea.. ~ Ashtavakra Gita. Consciousness is the greatest mystery ever encountered by humanity.. Mystics of all traditions have described consciousness as the ground of being in which the dance of life unfolds. Each tradition has developed different approaches and practices to explore the nature of consciousness, the paths of meditation, inquiry, prayer, art, mantras and movement…. Today the main lens through which our culture understands reality is science. For the past century science has viewed consciousness as something generated by the brain, yet there are major problems with this assumption. A new scientific paradigm is emerging which views consciousness as fundamental. Consciousness cannot be explained in terms of the existing laws of space, time, mass and energy. A new science has to be developed, a science that can accept consciousness as universal while investigating the connections between the ...
Your nature is the consciousness, in which the whole world wells up, like waves in the sea. ~ Ashtavakra Gita. Consciousness is the greatest mystery ever encountered by humanity.. Mystics of all traditions have described consciousness as the ground of being in which the dance of life unfolds. Each tradition has developed different approaches and practices to explore the nature of consciousness, the paths of meditation, inquiry, prayer, art, mantras and movement…. Today the main lens through which our culture understands reality is science. For the past century science has viewed consciousness as something generated by the brain, yet there are major problems with this assumption. A new scientific paradigm is emerging which views consciousness as fundamental. Consciousness cannot be explained in terms of the existing laws of space, time, mass and energy. A new science has to be developed, a science that can accept consciousness as universal while investigating the connections between the ...
The science of consciousness is founded on identifying the minimally sufficient neural correlates of consciousness. However, I have argued that science really seeks identification of the neural constitution of consciousness, and that there are no empirical strategies for distinguishing the correlates and constitution of consciousness. Here I review this correlation/constitution distinction problem, drawing on recording, inhibition, stimulation and combined inhibition/stimulation approaches. I propose the Jenga analogy to explain why the minimally sufficient neural correlates of consciousness should not be considered the ultimate target of consciousness science. I then show how combined inhibition/stimulation strategies might identify some constitutive neural activities but not the whole constitution of consciousness. Clarifications, objections and related issues are also discussed and I propose new foundational claims for consciousness science.
The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. Ned Block. 1stPublisher: Bradford BookFormat: Paperback. Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works in neuropsychology) on consciousness through 1997, and includes some forthcoming articles. Its extensive coverage strikes a balance between seminal works of the past few decades and the leading edge of philosophical research on consciousness.As no other anthology currently does, The Nature of Consciousness provides a substantial introduction to the field, and imposes structure on a vast and complicated literature, with sections covering stream of consciousness, theoretical issues, consciousness and representation, the function of consciousness, subjectivity and the explanatory gap, the knowledge argument, qualia, and monitoring conceptions of ...
Beyond time and space. Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company.. Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.. The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.. Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead. And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness, which migrated ...
Assigning Consciousness. Even when DOS is highly optimized, LB does not assign consciousness to sensory data, but goes through the extra step of passing on intensity values sent to it by sensory receptors to VP, based on which, VP assigns consciousness.. The reason for the same is that besides sensory data, which are physical phenomena, judgements are also needed for intramural communication, i.e. thoughts, which are mental phenomena, where VP needs to consider different aspects of intramural communication using its capabilities of utilizing past data and future projections in order to make decisions and finalize executions, and thus, need consciousness to be assigned. In simple words, VP needs to assign consciousness to both, physical sensations and thoughts.. To identify them separately while explaining their workings, when VP assigns consciousness to sensory data, I will call it Sensory Consciousness, when it assigns to intramural communication, I will call it Intramural ...
The claim that language is in principle inaccessible to consciousness may look counterintuitive but is not as challenging as finding an answer to the subsequent question of why that must be the case -- if language is a function that is in the service of consciousness and we cannot imagine why language would have existed at all without the existence of consciousness. On the one hand, language is the cognitive capacity that seems best fit to support consciousness in its monitoring and control functions; on the other hand, language learning (learning the rules of ones own language), language structure and language processing turn out upon closer scrutiny to be in principle inaccessible to consciousness. I present a set of arguments in favour of the thesis that language is in principle inaccessible to consciousness on the basis of a set of asymmetries between sentence structure and the structure of consciousness. If the thesis in question is on the right track, we have to face two basic problems. ...
An exciting and emerging area of study, Consciousness Studies focus on the transformative experiences, practices and beliefs of many cultural, religious, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic traditions. The Consciousness Studies Concentration, available to students enrolled in any of the degree options within the Goddard Graduate Institute, is an interdisciplinary education that draws upon a number of disciplines, including the neurosciences, philosophy of mind, anthropology of consciousness, Jungian psychology, religious studies, psychology, the arts and the humanities.. Students pursuing the Consciousness Studies Concentration develop an integrated understanding of the origin, evolution, and expansion of human consciousness. The emphasis at Goddard is on developing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness that is open to a range of perspectives from the scientific to the transpersonal.. Our integral approach to the study of consciousness honors equally:. ...
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A great way to understand consciousness is to study those that increase consciousness in others.. A mother who cajoles and exchanges smiles with her baby. A teacher who transmits knowledge. A neurologist who awakens a comatose by electrostimulations. A mystic who shares holist ideas.. There are many ways to define an increase in consciousness. Is there anything in common in all these ways that helps us to understand what consciousness is fundamentally?. Each way is anchored in a different level of information. This is why the consciences they describe appear so dissimilar. The only thing in common is the actual increase in consciousness, regardless of the medium of information.. This common feature is the addition of additional levels of information. We readily call this phenomenon an enlargement of consciousness. But its more of a stack. Higher-level information synthesizes previous ones.. The baby includes more elaborate signals from the mother. The teacher allows his students to access a ...
Would it be worth summarising what the issues are about this topic? Ill have a go, and perhaps we can reach some consensus:. 1) The epimestological question of whether artificial consciousness is possible or whether the term is an oxymoron, i.e. that by definition consciousness cannot be artificial because it wouldnt then be consciousness at all. To get around this, we either have to remove the need for thought from the definition of consciousness or change the title of the piece to simulated concsiousness.. 2) The question of whether consciousness or indeed artificial consciousness necessarily requires a predictive capability, as suggested in the original article. Evidence from alternative sources should be provided to justify the original claim, and I have suggested that the alternative of anticipation should be included to cover his requirement.. 3) The question of whether it is possible to define an average human for the purposes of setting criteria against which to measure the ...
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WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS ? Consciousness is described as a state of knowing, or awareness, or recognizing the existence, truth, or fact of something. What is that something that is known or recognized by Consciousness ? I propose to explore the contents of Consciousness to answer the question of what is Consciousness ? CONSCIOUSNESS IS A…
Of course, ultimately, when your soul raises its consciousness enough it will reintegrate with its Over-Soul. Thereby ceasing Incarnation, becoming a seamless part of its Over-Soul, and contributing to the evolution of the Over-Souls consciousness - which is good because your Over-Soul is essentially thehigher/wider level of you!. NOTE: Much of the information in this article comes from The Ascension Papers - Book 1 andBook 2. If you find this article interesting then I highly recommend these books and other information produced by its author, Zingdad.. What Are Densities of Consciousness?. You may be wondering where the term densities which was used in the title of this article comes from and how it applies to levels of consciousness. Density is a term that has come into common usage to refer to the levels/states of consciousness. The origin of this term is a bit obscure and confusing. Densities are related to the level of consciousness, and the frequency level, at which a reality is created ...
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There is one sense in which our consciousness, say of our surroundings, can vary continuously: the content of the consciousness can vary pretty much continuously in terms of the level of detail and discrimination. After waking up, I come to be aware more determinately of what is around me, after all. This is an uninteresting (from the point of view of my present interest) form of continuous variation of consciousness. The interesting form of continuous variation would be where the content is fixed, but somehow the degree of consciousness varies. It is hard to imagine what fixed-content variation in the level of consciousness would be like. I would be aware of exactly the same detail, but differently. More vibrantly? More focusedly or more concentratedly? Focus and concentration are a promising start. But it seems to me that less or concentrated focused consciousness does at least tend to have a lower level of detail of content. When I concentrate on a part of the visual field, I see more detail ...
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In recent years, the primary focus of many philosophers of mind (though not Fodor) has shifted to consciousness. And a growing number of philosophers, attempting to exploit some of the advances of the previous decades work on intentionality, are advocating representational theories of consciousness. Representationalists have spent much time defending their characteristic thesis (RT) and have devoted much effort to some of the peculiar problems facing theories of consciousness (examples: inverted spectrum, absent qualia). They have expended precious little energy answering more basic questions like What makes a conscious state a conscious state?, What conditions are necessary and sufficient for consciousness?, and What can be said on behalf of the naturalization of consciousness? It is my suspicion, fuelled by the remarks of Armstrong, Lycan and Levine quoted in the paper, that representationalists have thought that these problems are solved (or at least reduced to the corresponding ...
Chalmers takes these facts literally: our statements about consciousness are part of our cognitive life, and therefore can be explained quite naturally, just like any other behavior. I speak about my feelings the same way i raise a hand. There is a physical process that explains why i do both. It also happens that we are conscious, not just that we talk about it, and that part cannot be explained (yet). If we had a detailed understanding of the brain, we could predict when someone would utter the words I feel pain. So Chalmers believes that our talk about consciousness will be explained just like any other cognitive process, just like any other bodily process. This is not the same as explaining the conscious feelings themselves, and it leaves open the option that feelings are but an accessory, an evolutionary accident, a by-product of our cognitive life with no direct relevance to our actions ...
This article explains the importance and the necessity of a conceptually new method of rehabilitation of children in reduced state of consciousness after severe brain injury. During the period from 2014 to 2015 29 children in a reduced state of consciousness have been treated in the Clinical and Research Institute of Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma. 14 children ages 7 to 17 have been passed neurorehabilitation course in an approach of clinical anthropocentrism. Using comparative method the authors present the results of the recovery process of working with children in reduced state of consciousness, with the use of clinical and anthropocentric approach and standard comprehensive rehabilitation. The results of the two groups of patients were evaluated on the parameters: 1. Level of consciousness - GCS, Scale of Dobrokhotova-Zaitsev, Scale communicative activity (SCABLn). 2. Motor opportunities - The scale of the Committee for Medical Research (for R.Van der Ploeg, 1984), Scale of spasticity ...
It is not difficult for human being to realize that the older a child is the higher his level of consciousness is. That is because childs level of consciousness generally is beneath the one of the adults. Once a person becomes 18 years, it will be difficult for others to determine his consciousness level.. Drugs and alcohol affect the mind access to the knowledge, which an individual has. By using those kinds of stuffs the access time to the knowledge becomes also slower. Those stuffs might be a fast way to decrease your consciousness level temporarily. A conscious living being is aware of his existence, but that could be different by animals. Conscious feeling grows gradually by learning and that growth has no limits. Every unit of knowledge contributes to our consciousness.. I saw once how a fabric produced chickens. It was very impressive, because the chickens from the moment that they come out from the egg had a planned life until they were ready for production. The question is, do chickens ...
So humans seem to have this subjective state of being we call consciousness. What about other animals, insects, or creatures we see around Earth? Are they conscious? Can they perceive?. Many think so, for the right reasons. The result of these contemplations has led many to believe that consciousness is one. When they say this, they mean that feeling of perceiving, this ability to perceive, is all connected, in that we as humans can see each other, bats can use sound waves to know were here, snakes can sense our warmth, and they can sense each other, to an extent. We may perceive it differently, but we all perceive something, and this state of perception is what we call consciousness. This is a common philosophical view of consciousness in that all sentient beings can perceive, and therefore consciousness is connected, its one.. While this is one plausible view, I had the opposite realization - while it is all connected in the sense mentioned above, its infinitely separated. As humans ...
In his Light Body Consciousness courses, (LB941-LB945) DaBen leads you to experience states of consciousness that have been called awakened where you leave behind time and space, entering into the Allness of the present moment. You will explore many states of consciousness where you can directly experience the Self that you are beyond your three-dimensional self. You gain an increasing awareness of a greater You and the Immense Space that you have consciousness in. With this awareness you can change what you experience and draw to you in your daily life. These are truly transformative courses that will change how you perceive the world, yourself, other people, and reality itself. Most people have described their experiences of light and energy, of expanded realizations and new senses as priceless, practical, and a gift of consciousness from Source they are deeply grateful to have realized.. The five levels teach you invaluable skills for moving into higher dimensions and states of ...
It is the abrupt quality of how the process of altering of state of consciousness occurs (which often goes hand by hand with the phenomenon of discontinuous memory [Spivak, 1988]) that allowed C. T. Tart to speak about the discreteness of states of consciousness (and, hence, the introduction of the term discrete state of consciousness [Tart, 1975]). For example, the state of dreaming is such a discrete state in which one tends to be unaware of the dreaming quality of experience. However, as V. V. Nalimov (1982) has pointed out in his theoretical research, any discreteness (discontinuity) dialectically involves continuity; and when the state of dreaming is integrated into the continuum of consciousness the subject gets access to lucid dreaming in which he or she becomes aware that he sleeps and witnesses a dream (Wilber, 2000; LaBerge, 1985). It seems that this supports the J. A. Hobsons proposal that, according to his neurophysiological states of consciousness model, lucid dreaming ...
The mind-body problem has been in the news lately. A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine had a special issue on mind and brain, with a lead story by Steven Pinker on the mystery of consciousness, along with brief sidebar articles on consciousness by Bernard Baars, Dan Dennett, Antonio Damasio, Michael Gazzaniga, Colin McGinn. Now the New Yorker has just published a long article by Larissa MacFarquhar on Pat and Paul Churchland (not online, unfortunately), with a lot of nice biographical and sociological background and some philosophical discussion along the way. I talked to Larissa for this article a year or two ago, when it was a general article on the problem of consciousness, and a fair amount of philosophical background on consciousness has survived into the final version.
This new way of thinking about consciousness has been spreading throughout the physics community at an exponential rate within the past few years. Considering consciousness as an actual state of matter would be huge, considering the fact that modern day definitions of matter require a substance to have mass, which consciousness does not have. What it does have, however, is some sort of effect on our physical material world, and the extent of this effect and how far it goes is the next step for science.. The quantum double slit experiment is a very popular experiment used to examine how consciousness and our physical material world are intertwined. It is a great example that documents how factors associated with consciousness and our physical material world are connected in some way.. One potential revelation of this experience is that,. ...
Otto Warmbier, the former North Korean detainee returned to the US, died at 2:20 pm, his parents reported Monday. He had suffered severe brain damage while in detention, doctors said.
The general thesis of this paper is that drug experience can be understood only if it is viewed as an altered state of consciousness rather than as a pharmacological event. A subthesis is that this approach will make it possible for society to reduce significantly the problems now associated with the use of psychoactive drugs. All of us experience occasional states of consciousness different from our ordinary waking state. Obviously, sleep is such a state. Less obviously, perhaps, are daydreaming and movie watching unusual modes of awareness. Other distinct varieties of conscious states are trance, hypnosis, psychosis, general anesthesia, delirium, meditation, and mystic rapture. In our country, until recently, there has been no serious investigation of altered states of consciousness as such, because most Western scientists who study the mind regard consciousness as annoyingly nonmaterial and, therefore, inaccessible to direct investigation. Their research has focused on the objective ...
The nature of consciousness remains deeply mysterious and profoundly important, with existential, medical and spiritual implication. We know what it is like to be conscious - to have awareness, a conscious mind, but who, or what, are we who know such things? How is the subjective nature of phenomenal experience - our inner life - to be explained in scientific terms? What consciousness actually is, and how it comes about remain unknown. The general assumption in modern science and philosophy - the standard model - is that consciousness emerges from complex computation among brain neurons, computation whose currency is seen as neuronal firings (spikes) and synaptic transmissions, equated with binary bits in digital computing. Consciousness is presumed to emerge from complex neuronal computation, and to have arisen during biological evolution as an adaptation of living systems, extrinsic to the makeup of the universe. On the other hand, spiritual and contemplative traditions, and some ...
Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anaesthetic drug takes effect.. Brian Pollard, Professor of Anaesthesia at Manchester Medical School, will tell the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam today (Saturday) that the real-time 3-D images seemed to show that losing consciousness involves a change in electrical activity deep within the brain, changing the activity of certain groups of nerve cells (neurons) and hindering communication between different parts of the brain.. He said the findings appear to support a hypothesis put forward by Professor Susan Greenfield, of the University of Oxford, about the nature of consciousness itself. Prof Greenfield suggests consciousness is formed by different groups of brain cells (neural assemblies), which work efficiently together, or not, depending on the available sensory stimulations, and that consciousness is not an all-or-none state but more like a dimmer switch, changing ...
In this interdisciplinary program, we will focus on advanced topics in consciousness studies and the psychology of dreams. Well explore consciousness by examining dreams and personal belief systems using both scientific research and first-person experience. Well explore dynamics of the psyche by examining the following questions. What is the psyche, what is consciousness, and what are their properties and dynamics? Are there different types of consciousness? What is the relationship between unconscious and conscious mental processes?
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From the PEAR website: The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program, which flourished for nearly three decades under the aegis of Princeton Universitys School of Engineering and Applied Science, has completed its experimental agenda of studying the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes, and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. Since the closing of the program, recent efforts have moved to a new organization, the International Consciousness Research Laboratories, or ICRL. ICRL promotes, encourages, and advances the study, research and dissemination of knowledge related to the broad field of human consciousness, including recognition of the role of anomalous phenomena for understanding the human mind and acknowledgement of subjectivity as a critical ingredient in any comprehensive model of physical reality. Click ...
A difficult problem for interdisciplinary study is deciding what constructs from other fields will comport well with the concerns of ones own academic area. Consciousness is a crucial concept for any discipline concerned with human behavior, but is particularly problematic for human communication scholars since it is not a primitive concept for speech communication. This essay advocates choosing a conception of consciousness that reflects the active role of language in shaping human consciousness and is presented in the theories of Vygotsky and Luria. The author suggests that such a perspective would be more practical and heuristic for communication studies than others currently being advanced since assessments of linguistic competency could then be used to investigate human consciousness ...
A professor at Caltech, Christof Koch helped popularize consciousness as a topic for serious scientific investigation-instead of windy philosophical supposition-through his collaboration with the great Francis Crick, who had already cracked the genetic code and now wanted to solve the riddle of mind as well. In 1994 Koch outlined a theory, jointly fashioned by him and Crick, that 40-hertz brain waves might be a key to consciousness. Although I was skeptical of that particular theory, I liked the hard-nosed, materialist, reductionist approach that Koch and Crick took toward consciousness. I also liked the quirky intensity that Koch brought to his scientific work.. Koch, who since then has been my go-to source on neuroscience, is still chasing the white whale of consciousness …. ...
Introduction : Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major cause of severe disability and death world wide.The mortality rate in these patients largely depends on initial severity of trauma. In TBI, initial level of consciousness is most important prognostic indicator. The commonest scale is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Despite its widespread use, the GCS has some significant limitations, including variations in inter rater reliability and predictive validity. In order to overcome deficiencies of the GCS, an alternative scale called FOUR (Full Outline of Unresponsiveness score) has been developed and validated in several neurosurgical centers in North America. This study was an attempt to validate this score in Nepalese Setting. This study was carried out in the Department of Neurosurgery at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. The main objective ofthe study was to compare the FOUR with GCS in predicting outcome in patients with Traumatic brain injury.. MATERIAL AND ...
in Archives Italiennes de Biologie (2012), 150(2-3), 122-39. Electroencephalographic activity in the context of disorders of consciousness is a swiss knife like tool that can evaluate different aspects of cognitive residual function, detect consciousness and ... [more ▼]. Electroencephalographic activity in the context of disorders of consciousness is a swiss knife like tool that can evaluate different aspects of cognitive residual function, detect consciousness and provide a mean to communicate with the outside world without using muscular channels. Standard recordings in the neurological department offer a first global view of the electrogenesis of a patient and can spot abnormal epileptiform activity and therefore guide treatment. Although visual patterns have a prognosis value, they are not sufficient to provide a diagnosis between vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) patients. Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) processes ...
In clinical neurology, a comprehensive understanding of consciousness has been regarded as an abstract concept - best left to philosophers. However, times are changing and the need to clinically assess consciousness is increasingly becoming a real-world, practical challenge. Current methods for evaluating altered levels of consciousness are highly reliant on either behavioural measures or anatomical imaging. While these methods have some utility, estimates of misdiagnosis are worrisome (as high as 43%) - clearly this is a major clinical problem. The solution must involve objective, physiologically based measures that do not rely on behaviour. This paper reviews recent advances in physiologically based measures that enable better evaluation of consciousness states (coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and locked in syndrome). Based on the evidence to-date, electroencephalographic and neuroimaging based assessments of consciousness provide valuable information for evaluation of residual
More than 60,000 people trust Individualogist as the leading resource for archetypes and individuation. The Universal Consciousness Unknown Binding - January 1, 2009 See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions Inspire a love of … Your consciousness has very deep, eternal meaning that cannot be measured with a ruler, and so all scientific studies will miss that part of the picture. For what reason am I here? T I It is fundamental, truly! Synonyms, Antonyms, Derived Terms, Anagrams and senses of consciousness. Furthermore, you are additionally associated with all that you hate and dread. G One of them is the book entitled SACRED SEXUALITY: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TANTRA YOGA: The Art of Sex Sublimation and Universal Consciousness (English Edition) By Muata Ashby. L This course is an Introduction to Universal Consciousness. Explore Urdupoint dictionary to find out more meanings, definitions, synonyms and antonyms of the word Gain Consciousness. Evaluating Consciousness in Clinical ...
There is an overwhelming amount of literature about the nature of consciousness and its riddles. Yet one must necessarily work through this literature if one is interested in the philosophical and scientific details of the related debates. However, this means that this short book can be neither an exhaustive introduction nor a developed stance on the issue of consciousness - the problem of the mind-body relationship, the reduction of mental states to brain states, or the attribution of consciousness to single individuals. Something of that kind can be found elsewhere.1 As far as these issues are concerned, this Living Book is more of a call to pay attention to the current ways in which some of the scientific discussions about consciousness are framed. (more...) ...
This award-winning, nine unit course (The Neuronal Basis of Consciousness), taught in the spring of each year at Caltech, is concerned with the correlates of consciousness in the brain. The course focuses on the anatomy, physiology and psychology of sensory consciousness in the mammalian brain, in particular visual perception. Other topics include coma and other disturbances of consciousness, clinical case studies (e.g., prosopagnosia, neglect), attention, memory, zombie systems, free will and some philosophical questions of interest to the student of consciousness.. With the help of Leila Reddy, a graduate student in the Koch laboratory, and Leslie Maxfield and her team from Academic Media Technologies at Caltech, these lectures have been filmed, edited and put online.. They are organized into 16 lectures, each about one hour. They follow the textbook by the lecturer, Christof Koch (with much help from his close colleague and mentor, Francis Crick), The Quest for Consciousness - A ...
I dont think consciousness is in the brain. The brain receives consciousness. Consciousness is probably a non-local function of the space-time continuum and every individual brain is an individual receiver. Just like the world is full of television signals and each television set is a receiver. The delusion that you are in your body is a primitive, savage kind of logic, taking the data of perception at face value, similar to the delusion that Johnny Carson is inside your television set. Johnny Carson is not in your television set. Johnny Carson is in Hollywood. Your television set just receives Johnny Carsons signals. And consciousness is not in the brain, the brain just receives signals from the vast undifferentiated ocean of consciousness that makes up the space-time continuum. -Robert Anton Wilson. The faculty of consciousness can be likened to the light from a video projector. The projector shines light on to a screen, modifying the light so as to produce any one of an infinity of ...
This book presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness. The initial chapter distinguishes six main forms of consciousness and sketches an account of each one. Later chapters focus on phenomenal consciousness, consciousness of, and introspective consciousness. In discussing phenomenal consciousness, Hill develops the representational theory of mind in new directions, arguing that all awareness involves representations, even awareness of qualitative states like pain. He then uses this view to undercut dualistic accounts of qualitative states. Other topics include visual awareness, visual appearances, emotional qualia, and meta-cognitive processing. This important work will interest a wide readership of students and scholars in philosophy of mind and cognitive science ...
Christophe Menant writes, Let me inform you about a submission I just made to AAAI fall 2007 Symposium on AI and Consciousness. Title is Proposal for an Approach to Artificial Consciousness Based on Self-Consciousness (PDF format). It is close to [robots.net] posts made last year on Robot anxiety and consciousness. Feel free to comment. For those not familiar with Menants research, he proposes that consciousness (in the phenomenal sense) evolved from self-consciousness, which in turn evolved from self-representation. He believes using self-consciousness rather than phenomenal consciousness as a reference model will be a more productive route to developing artificial consciousness. This could also lead to interesting new ideas for robot perception and behavior ...
|i|Background. |/i|Despite a lack of clear evidence, multiple neurostimulants are commonly provided after severe brain injury (BI). The purpose of this study is to determine if the number of neurostimulants received during rehabilitation was associated with recovery of full consciousness or improved neurobehavioral function after severe BI.|i| Method. |/i|Data from 115 participants were extracted from a neurobehavioral observational study database for this exploratory, retrospective analysis. Univariate optimal data analysis was conducted to determine if the number of neurostimulants influenced classification of four outcomes: recovery of full consciousness during rehabilitation, recovery of full consciousness within one year of injury, and meaningful neurobehavioral improvement during rehabilitation defined as|i| either|/i| at least a 4.7 unit (minimal detectable change) or 2.58 unit (minimal clinically important difference) gain on the Disorders of Consciousness Scale-25 (DOCS-25).|i| Results.|/i|
The Center for Consciousness Studies (CCS) at the University of Arizona was established in 1997 by the Arizona Board of Regents. CCS is hosted by the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.. Toward a Science of Consciousness is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology and contemplative approaches. Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is presented by the Center for Consciousness Studies (CCS) at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Ariz. (even-numbered years, from 1994 including 1999 Quantum Mind in Flagstaff and 2003 Quantum Mind in Tucson and various locations around the world (odd-numbered ...
When Srila Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1966, he chose the term Krishna consciousness over God consciousness to emphasize the specific, attractive personality of Krishna, who is the Supreme Being mentioned in so much of Vedic literature as the source of all that exists and the ultimate source of all energies.. The practices of Krishna consciousness include hearing about Krishna from the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam-which describes His form, activities, and home in detail. Also recommended are chanting Krishnas names, such as the Hare Krishna mantra, eating spiritualized food prepared and offered to Krishna with devotion, serving Krishnas Deity form in the temple, and many other activities meant to keep oneself steadily absorbed in thought of Krishna. Naturally, the more someone adopts such practices, the more Krishna conscious they become.. Krishna consciousness is beneficial on many levels. The great sixteenth century authority on ...
When Srila Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1966, he chose the term Krishna consciousness over God consciousness to emphasize the specific, attractive personality of Krishna, who is the Supreme Being mentioned in so much of Vedic literature as the source of all that exists and the ultimate source of all energies.. The practices of Krishna consciousness include hearing about Krishna from the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam-which describes His form, activities, and home in detail. Also recommended are chanting Krishnas names, such as the Hare Krishna mantra, eating spiritualized food prepared and offered to Krishna with devotion, serving Krishnas Deity form in the temple, and many other activities meant to keep oneself steadily absorbed in thought of Krishna. Naturally, the more someone adopts such practices, the more Krishna conscious they become.. Krishna consciousness is beneficial on many levels. The great sixteenth century authority on ...
It is important to note that our use of the term Art here is very general and includes all forms of art, i.e., music, dance, film, painting, sculptor, and so on.. Consciousness is always present in any experience of any kind so when art is being appreciated, consciousness is present. Art is an integral part of human experience so we want to explore its intersection with consciousness - the ground of human experience.. Consciousness, our true nature, is permanence - that from which we arise is ever present - here&now … it is here more than we are. An artist attempts to capture/express the permanence through our inherent impermanence - through all the elements of our objective existence. Art helps us express the inexpressible.. An artist uses …the elements of the objective world, the appearance of all her changes, to explore and reveal that which is changeless, the thrill of her permanence… ~ Rupert Spira from Daphne Astors conversation with Rupert Spira on Consciousness and the ...
In science we have the knowledge becoming finer and finer. From large objects to molecules to atoms to electrons, protons, neutrons to leptons, mesons, quarks, bosons etc. to tiny strings. At this point, in my knowledge the presence of strings is not experimentally verified. However, even if it is verified, another question would come up as to from where are these strings coming up. As existing questions are answered, new questions come up without answers.. Finding ultimate truth via science looks like a mirage, the closer we go, farther it recedes.​​. The final answer that can be found via looking inwards is that everything is made up of consciousness. Now, if somebody asks how did consciousness come into existence, the answer is that only consciousness can ask this question as an inert thing cannot ask this question. So, the questioner himself is consciousness and the question is also taking place in consciousness. There is no question of when as there is nothing else but ...
Most neuroimaging studies of anesthetic action assume that loss of functional activity reflects the neural correlates of consciousness (Heinke and Schwarzbauer, 2002; Alkire et al., 2008; Brown et al., 2010). Yet, this approach lacks the ability to distinguish the consciousness-related changes from the epiphenomenal, e.g., drug-related, effects. Here, we used a different approach and investigated what turns back on when consciousness re-emerges following anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. The structures that activated when consciousness resumed were the brainstem, the thalamus, the hypothalamus, and the ACC (Figs. 2, 4, 5). Although only limited frontal and parietal activity was observed during the ROC, an active parietal region demonstrated greater functional connectivity with the ACC (and other frontal regions) during the conscious state (Fig. 3). These findings reveal a functional network that activates with restored consciousness to enable arousal, the subjective awareness of stimuli, and ...
In a video called The Conscious Mind (also the name of his 1996 book) Chalmers asks: How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?....How is it that all of this matter adds up to something as complex, as interesting and as unique as consciousness?. Clearly that is a question without an easy scientific solution. In 2006 evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins was asked What is the one question you most want to see answered? He replied, How does subjective consciousness work? How does it evolve?. The impact of thought is being actively explored around the world. A study on the role expectation plays in the effectiveness of drugs and one on the effect of patient belief on the course of recuperation illustrate the ways in which consciousness can be influential in health outcomes.. And while many exploring the impact of placebos are trying to pin down a physiological explanation for the effectiveness of pills and other treatments which include no ...
Stuart Hameroff. In:- The Emerging Physics of Consciousness - Ed: Tuszynski, J.. Hameroff classifies all the mainstream approaches to consciousness as classical functionalism. Functionalism takes no account of what the brain is made of or of anything finer grained than the level of neuron-to-neuron connections. It believes that these connections could be copied in another material such as silicon, and that the resulting construct would be conscious. However, Hameroff argues that although axonal spikes and synaptic connections clearly play a key role in information processing in the brain, they may not be the main currency of consciousness. Hameroff argues that quantum processing in microtubules within the dendrites and gap junctions between dendrites are the main currency of consciousness.. The main case against quantum processing in the brain has always been that any quantum coherence in the brain would decohere faster than the time taken for any useful biological process. Hameroff accepts ...
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When this third consciousness through interaction is formed, it expands the field of both parties. It awakens within it characteristics that neither of the parties involved had prior. In other words, it expands, it stretches the emotional field awareness and indeed the third meld consciousness, and this reaches back into and changes the individual awareness of both. The pet opens up your ability to remain positive in allowing you to express love, and you teach it , in a manner of speaking, to channel the greater part of its divine Sirian consciousness in doing so.. Your willingness for the interaction allows it to achieve its specific purpose, and there is an important growth on both sides unique to the field created between the two of you. The pet operated in group consciousness prior to the melding blend with the human, and the individuality of it was formed in the bond with the human. Do you understand?. Question to Metatron: Are you saying that animals are not individual unless they ...
Join us for the Consciousness Development Programme (CDP), which received the Kindred Spirit Magazines Life Transformation Award!. If you want to take a deep dive into topics such as out-of-body experience (astral travel or astral projection), bioenergy, consciousness and evolution (and associated psychic phenomena), then the CDP presents the most comprehensive, transformative body of information that you are likely to find anywhere.. The Consciousness Development Programme (CDP) is the IACs signature course and includes over 37 hours of classes (34 on-demand videos, live scheduled classes and several practical energy exercises, and guided out-of-body experience sessions).. The course is designed to gradually introduce subjects such as energies, paranormal phenomena, the cycle of successive lives, and altered states of consciousness. It is interactive and students are encouraged to raise questions regarding subjects that interest them.. The CDP includes practical exercises using established ...
Unfortunately I didnt mention perhaps the key element into what happens to consciousness at conception. Through the genes of DNA there is a connection to the experiences, and so perhaps also the experiencing or consciousness, of all the ancestors that had that gene. Now a drama for the body is also a drama for consciousness, so that extreme pain will cause a block in consciousness, as well as physical repression in the brain and epigenetic changes. There is then an enormous amount of blockage that needs to be cleared, in the form of all those ancestral traumatic experiences which we are connected to via our DNA ...
This is the fourth volume of Velmans, M. (ed.) (2018) Consciousness (Critical Concepts in Psychology), a 4-volume collection of Major Works on Consciousness commissioned by Routledge, London. The introduction and 22 readings begin with a review of mental influences on states of the body and brain (psychogenesis), which are often thought of as theoretically problematic for conventional materialist theories of mind. The evidence is nevertheless extensive, for example in psychosomatic illnesses and studies of the physiological consequences of meditation, imagery, biofeedback and hypnosis. Such effects are also central to developments in psychoneuroimmunology and studies of placebos, dealing not only with how to control for such effects in clinical trials, but with how such effects operate, and how to harness them for the benefit of patients. The volume then surveys altered states of consciousness, including the conditions for their emergence, their adaptive as well as maladaptive potential, and the ...
Where is a personality? When we talk about consciousness, we tend to assume it is the same as personality - the essence of being an individual. However, research has revealed that personality is much more closely associated with memories. When someone loses their life memories, they also lose those aspects that define their personalities. So if memories are our personality, what is consciousness? It turns out, again according to research, that the vast majority of what our brains do is unconscious. That includes not only obviously unconscious things, like controlling the muscles to make us walk, but decision making. If we chose to move our hand, the nerves that control the relevant muscles react slightly before we are aware of it consciously. This implies that the decision has already been made unconsciously and our consciousness is only informed afterwards! So what use is our consciousness? It is thought to be a place for high-level executive planning, like what to do next Tuesday. So much for ...
A production of Hamlet. An actor enters. He begins to speak: To be, or not to be - that is the question.1 Now a doubling is occurring. The audience sees Hamlet contemplating oblivion. Simultaneously, they see an actor playing Hamlet and are more or less aware of their immersion in a fiction. Throughout history, this duality has prompted theorists both within and outside the theatre to consider the nature of actors minds when they perform. From the earliest discourses on performance, the notion of multiple potential levels of consciousness has been advanced and explored. The question has been resolved by incorporating the actors duality: divided consciousness is seen as desirable and arguably necessary in performance. Though couched in a panoply of terms, discourse on divided consciousness has tended to focus on theoretical constructs (actor versus character) or performed effects (emotional identification versus representation) rather than practical execution. Can divided consciousness be ...
What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there even be a credible alternative? In this book, the author addresses the causal role of consciousness in the world from an anti-physicalist perspective. Introducing a new paradigm called Liberal Naturalism, he offers a profound framework that proposes a deep link between consciousness and causation. Using this framework, he undercuts the logic of the historical debate and deflates the question of causality that physicalists have long been posing to anti-physicalists. Ultimately, he gives consciousness a causally important role without supposing either that it is physical or that it interacts with the physical.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND CALL FOR REGISTRATION TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2004 April 7-11, 2004 Tucson Convention Center Tucson, Arizona http://consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2004/ Extended submission deadline: NOVEMBER 20, 2003 The sixth Toward a Science of Consciousness conference will be held at the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 7-11, 2004. This conference will mark the tenth anniversary of the landmark Tucson consciousness conference in 1994. You may register for the conference and submit abstracts online (deadline: November 20, 2003) at: http://consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2004/ PLENARY PROGRAM Plenary speakers will include Ned Block, Daniel Dennett, Martha Farah, Jeffrey Gray, Joshua Greene, Terry Horgan, Christof Koch, Victor Lamme, David Leopold, Janet Metcalfe, Alva Noe, Roger Penrose, Steven Pinker, Thomas Ray, Ronald Rensink, Wendy Shields, Alexander Shulgin, Zoltan Torey, Franz Vollenweider, Daniel Wegner, and others. Plenary sessions will include: ...
People do not always behave the way we think they ought to behave. We often perceive others as behaving in ways we think is contrary to their self-interest. This seems crazy or foolish. We then accuse these persons of false consciousness.. The term itself was invented by Friedrich Engels in the late nineteenth century to explain why workers (or at least some workers) didnt support workers parties at the polls or didnt support strikes called by a union. The answer for Engels was that, for some reason, these workers misperceived their self-interest, suffering from false consciousness.. The remedy was twofold: Those with the approved level of class consciousness should seek to educate those whose class consciousness was deficient. At the same time, they should pursue as far as possible the political actions that are dictated by class-conscious individuals and organizations.. This mode of remedy had two advantages: First, it justified the legitimation of whatever action class-conscious ...
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The diamond consciousness, responsible for the diamond perspective, is like Aurobindos supermind in its capacity to look through all facets. Cosmic consciousness looks without facets so it sees everything, all points of view integrated in one perspective. The diamond consciousness can see all points of view, including the integrated point of view of cosmic consciousness, and hold all these perspectives ...
Cook, Elizabeth Adell. 1989. Measuring Feminist Conciousness. Women and Politics 9:71-88 Cook asserts that the previous measures of feminist consciousness in the literature are inadequate as they contain problems of continuity and validity, and offers her own measure of feminist consciousness that can be used in all American National Election Studies. She defines group consciousness as a politicized identification with a group of which one is an objective member and implies an orientation toward collective action to achieve the groups goals (71) and argues that previous researchers attempts to operationalize group consciousness in terms of the ANES has been unsuccessful. Cook contends that combining the feeling thermometer for the womens liberation movement with the equal role scale will allow for the greatest external validity because patterns of relationships between demographic variables and the proposed measure of feminist consciousness are consistent with previous literature ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Language learning and brain reorganization in a 3.5-year-old child with left perinatal stroke revealed using structural and functional connectivity. AU - François, Clément. AU - Ripollés, Pablo. AU - Bosch, Laura. AU - Garcia-Alix, Alfredo. AU - Muchart, Jordi. AU - Sierpowska, Joanna. AU - Fons, Carme. AU - Solé, Jorgina. AU - Rebollo, Monica. AU - Gaitán, Helena. AU - Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni. PY - 2016/4/1. Y1 - 2016/4/1. N2 - Brain imaging methods have contributed to shed light on the possible mechanisms of recovery and cortical reorganization after early brain insult. The idea that a functional left hemisphere is crucial for achieving a normalized pattern of language development after left perinatal stroke is still under debate. We report the case of a 3.5-year-old boy born at term with a perinatal ischemic stroke of the left middle cerebral artery, affecting mainly the supramarginal gyrus, superior parietal and insular cortex extending to the precentral and ...
Some patients following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury will present with profound and prolonged consciousness impairment. Their rehabilitation needs might differ from other patient groups and usually require treatments to enhance consciousness along with other forms of treatment and therapy used in traumatic brain injury neurorehabilitation. Prevention of medical and neurological complications is agreed as the main focus for this group and currently, there is no pharmacological treatment proven to speed up or improve the recovery from disorders of consciousness.
The work of Chattanooga musician J Flo (AKA Jeremy Lawrence) feels inspired of current events and experiences. There are sorrow and uncertainty laced throughout his songs, the kinds of universal emotions that seep into your bones and offer reflections of the world around you. Hes been on a musical sabbatical of sorts since 2013, but in the past few months, hes made a conscious decision to work on his music and evolve as both an artist and person. He released an impressive video a few months ago and is now looking to further his brand of incisive musical commentary.. With the release of new EP 2HrLayover, J Flo has constructed an atmosphere where hard truths, inequality and an open consciousness are explored in exquisite detail. His words form a lyrical collage of pain and frustration while trying to keep the darkness at bay by placing trust in a hesitant hopefulness. The beats slither along your spine while his melodies call your senses to attention. Taking a modernist viewpoint in terms of ...
A major part of the scientific literature on consciousness consists of studies that examine the relationship between the experiences reported by subjects and the activity that simultaneously takes place in their brains-that is, studies of the neural correlates of consciousness. The hope is to find that activity in a particular part of the brain, or a particular pattern of global brain activity, which will be strongly predictive of conscious awareness. Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.[91] Another idea that has drawn attention for several decades is that consciousness is associated with high-frequency (gamma band) oscillations in brain activity. This idea arose from proposals in the 1980s, by Christof von der Malsburg and Wolf Singer, that gamma oscillations could solve the so-called binding problem, by linking information represented in different parts of the brain into a unified experience.[92] ...
A major part of the scientific literature on consciousness consists of studies that examine the relationship between the experiences reported by subjects and the activity that simultaneously takes place in their brains-that is, studies of the neural correlates of consciousness. The hope is to find that activity in a particular part of the brain, or a particular pattern of global brain activity, which will be strongly predictive of conscious awareness. Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.[91]. Another idea that has drawn attention for several decades is that consciousness is associated with high-frequency (gamma band) oscillations in brain activity. This idea arose from proposals in the 1980s, by Christof von der Malsburg and Wolf Singer, that gamma oscillations could solve the so-called binding problem, by linking information represented in different parts of the brain into a unified experience.[92] ...
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology/Director, Center for Consciousness Studies/The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona/www.quantumconsciousness.org. Opening Talk: The conscious pilot - Dendritic synchrony moves through the brain (like a computer worm) to mediate consciousness.. The brain is viewed as a computer in which sensory processing, control of behavior and other cognitive functions emerge from neurocomputation in parallel networks of perceptron-like neurons. In each neuron, dendrites receive and integrate synaptic inputs to a threshold for axonal firing as output - integrate-and-fire. Neurocomputation in axonal-dendritic synaptic networks successfully accounts for non-conscious (auto-pilot) cognitive brain functions. When cognitive functions are accompanied by consciousness, neurocomputation is accompanied by 30 to 90 Hz gamma synchrony EEG. Gamma synchrony derives primarily from neuronal groups linked by dendritic-dendritic gap junctions, forming transient syncytia ...
The Scope and Limits of Brain Imaging in Consciousness Research. Hakwan Lau. Brain imaging has gained a lot of attention within the consciousness research community. In this workshop I explain the basic procedures and mechanisms of how a typical fMRI or PET study is done, and how the data are analysed. I then focus on the methodological problems that are often found in published articles, such as statistical problems and anatomical mislocalization. The results in imaging often depend on how the data were analysed, and therefore a cautious reading of the methodology is necessary. I then move on to discuss interpretational issues using examples from the consciousness research literature. I particular pick out cases where theoretical interpretions of brain imaging results were misguided, and explain why some forms of arguments are fallacious. For example, the fact that two tasks reveal similar activations in the same brain region does not mean that they are fundamentally related; there are only so ...
Most view consciousness as an emergent property of complex computation mediated by membrane and synaptic processes among brain neurons. But despite ever-increasing detailed knowledge, the brain-as-computer approach has failed to shed light on the nature of consciousness. Accordingly, some now see the brain as a multi-scale hierarchy, resonating inside neurons with deeper, faster (quantum) vibrations in cytoskeletal microtubules, much more like an orchestra than a computer.. In the 19th century a group of gases with diverse chemical structures were found to have a common action. When inhaled, the gases rendered humans and animals immobile, unresponsive and presumably unconscious. When the anesthetic gas was exhaled away, the subjects woke up and regained consciousness. For each gas, the same concentration was required to anesthetize all types of animals - salamanders, fruit flies, horses, mice and humans, the effective dosage for each gas becoming known as its minimum alveolar concentration ...
By definition, zombies would be behaviourally and physically just like us, but not conscious. If a zombie world is possible, then physicalism is false. Just as importantly, the seductive conception of phenomenal consciousness embodied by the zombie idea is fundamentally misconceived. One of this books two main aims is to bring out the incoherence of the zombie idea with the help of an intuitively appealing argument (the sole-pictures argument). The other is to develop a fresh approach to understanding phenomenal consciousness by exploiting two key notions: that of a basic package of capacities which is necessary and sufficient for perception in the full sense; and that of direct activity, which, when combined with the basic package, is necessary and sufficient for perceptual consciousness. These definitions may apply to quite humble creatures, and even to suitably constructed artefacts.
This workshop is the first step towards an emerging research community that problematises aspects related to collective consciousness. Collective consciousness sits at the intersection of - and goes beyond - research on Collective Intelligence, Collective Awareness and Behavioural Change. One of the goals of this workshop is to construct a working definition of collective consciousness which responds to a realised shortcoming in our understanding of digital technologies in mediating the transactions between peoples capability to be aware and reflect, and their capacity to change behaviour and take action. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an explicit intent to work critically with how digital technologies augment our collective experiences and behaviours.. ...
People can be considered as conscious when they can perceive their thoughts and feelings,as well as their environment and can describe these perceptions to others.Thus consciousness enables people to deal in a way based on thoughts, memory,and flexibility with their environment,rather than coping in an automatic and rigid way.. Psychologist William James described consciousness as a stream which flows continuously, not as a succession of separate ideas or sensations.. Moral feelings expressions, qualities, values, standard of conduct and in concrete and practical terms, the way of life - all these aspects are common to human beings and form a vital part of our consciousness.. A complete system governing all aspects of human existance both individual and collective. Human beings have their own reality, not as a machine reacts mechanically as programmed by their emotions and environment, but a true and unique creature possessing an obvious outwards aspect - the physical body - and a hidden, ...
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Consciousness BASIC DEFINITIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES [1] HISTORICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS [2] THE BIRTH OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY [3] BIOLOGICAL, FUNCTIONALISTIC, AND BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVES [4] BIBLIOGRAPHY [5] Consciousness is a multifaceted phenomenon, and many terms are used to d
A radical reassessment of what we mean by consciousness and how we experience it in relation to others• Shows the importance of integrating different ways of knowing--such as feeling and intuition, reason and the senses--in our approach to life• Discusses the technique of Bohmian Dialogue where you can learn not only to feel your thinking, but also to experience true communion with othersIn Radical Knowing Christian de Quincey makes a provocative claim: We are not who we think we are. Instead, we are what we feel. Giving disciplined attention to feelings reveals the most fundamental fact of life and reality: We are our relationships. Most of us think we are individuals first and foremost who then come together to form relationships. De Quincey turns this obvious fact on its head and shows that relationship comes first, and that our individual sense of self--our private consciousness--actually arises from shared consciousness. This shared, collective consciousness is at the heart of indigenous ways
By: Aditya Nair One of the most baffling problems in science is that of consciousness. How exactly does our brain create consciousness? What brain mechanisms allow for the development of thoughts? Is consciousness a physical phenomenon? Probing the boundaries of our very existence itself, scientists have been pushing at this question for hundreds of years,…
The fourth foundation of the integral model is the notion of states. According to the model, there are three great states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. Each of these states has an energetic support: gross (physical), subtle (non-physical), and causal (formless). You can experience any of these states at any stage of development, and when you do, you will interpret these states according to the stage you are at. So what is the relationship between states and stages of development? The more you are (skillfully) plunged into non-ordinary states of consciousness, the more you disidentify with your present stage of development, and begin to identify with higher stages. Methods to induce non-ordinary states include meditation, various types of yoga, body practices, breathing exercises, etc. This continuous disidentification with all objects arising in awareness is the essence of what is called spiritual practice. Attaining this as a permanent stage takes years of development. ...
One of the major spiritual connections kabbalists make on the Sabbath is the reading of a weekly Bible portion. These consciousness lectures present lessons on each weeks portion to elevate our consciousness and create awareness of the spiritual energy and gifts that are available through the reading of a Torah Scroll. With greater awareness and an awakened consciousness, we can connect to the Light revealed each week and use it as support in our ongoing spiritual work.. ...