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Embodied mind and phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesArgument, 2015
In recent years, a central debate in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science concerns the role of the body in perception and cognition. For many contemporary philosophers, not only cognition but also perception is connected mainly with the brain ...
Maria VENIERI
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Liberation Through Narration: A Novel Humanistic Framework to Address Body Dissatisfaction

open access: yesThe Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though body dissatisfaction is nuanced and pervasive, the magnitude of body dissatisfaction is undercut by essentialist conceptualizations of the body and medicalized metrics of wellness tied to disordered eating. Hence, there is a need for a contextualized and sustaining framework to address and promote healing from body dissatisfaction ...
Kim Hughes, Amber L. Pope
wiley   +1 more source

Inattentive Perception, Time, and the Incomprehensibility of Consciousness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Cerebral energy supply is insufficient to support continuous neuronal processing of the plethora of time-constant objects that we are aware of. As a result, the brain is forced to limit processing resources to (the most relevant) cases of change.
Jürgen Krüger
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Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson   +18 more
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Phenomenal Consciousness as an Evolutionary Invention: Explaining the Positive Function of Illusionism

open access: yesFilozofia
The article’s main objective is to analyse the positive aspect of illusionism and the so-called “illusion problem” that lies at its heart – the problem of explaining the origin and causes of the illusion of phenomenal consciousness.
Katarina Marcinčinova
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Consciousness Without Content: A Look at Evidence and Prospects

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Many traditions in the East have proposed that consciousness without content is possible and could be achieved with mental training. However, it is not clear whether such a state is possible given that intentionality is a critical property of mentality ...
Narayanan Srinivasan   +1 more
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A Natural Account of Phenomenal Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroQuantology, 2007
Physicalists commonly argue that conscious experiences are nothing more than states of the brain, and that conscious qualia are observer-independent, physical properties of the external world. Although this assumes the ‘mantle of science,’ it routinely ignores the findings of science, for example in sensory physiology, perception, psychophysics ...
openaire   +1 more source

Resonance and Psychic Affirmation: A Comparison of Hartmut Rosa's and Daniel Haybron's Conceptions of Human Happiness

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmopsychism and Consciousness Research: A Fresh View on the Causal Mechanisms Underlying Phenomenal States

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Despite the progress made in studying the observable exteriors of conscious processes, which are reflected in the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), there are still no satisfactory answers to two closely related core questions.
Joachim Keppler, Itay Shani
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Cognitive Naturalism and the Phenomenal Feel

open access: yesRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2015
According to Sandro Nannini’s Time and Consciousness in Cognitive Naturalism, we can draw an analogy between the shift in the conception of time that occurred in physics with the introduction of relativity theory and a shift towards a scientifically more
Gregor Michael Hoerzer
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