Consciousness studies Consciousness studies The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a heuristic model of consciousness proposed by Timothy Leary. Perhaps somehow reminiscing Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, Leary believed the mind is best viewed as a collection of 8 "circuits", also called "gears" or "mini-brains". Each stage represents a higher stage of evolution than the one before it. The first four, which Leary presumed to reside in the left lobe of the cerebrum, are concerned with the survival of organisms on earth; the other four, which Leary suggested are found in the right lobe, are for use in the future evolution of man, and are dormant in the majority of human beings. ...more on Wikipedia about "8-Circuit Model of Consciousness"
The phrase "altered state of consciousness" was coined in the 1970s and describes induced changes in one's mental state, almost always temporary. A synonymous phrase is "altered states of awareness". ...more on Wikipedia about "Altered state of consciousness"
António C. R. Damásio, pron. IPA / /, (b. 1944, Lisbon, Portugal) physician and neurologist, is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center. Iowa City, Iowa, United States. His carrer at Iowa lasted from 1976-2005. Besides being a well-known researcher in several areas of the neurosciences, he is a best-seller author of science books for the general public. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antonio Damasio"
Arthur Middleton Young ( November 3, 1905, Paris, France– May 30, 1995, Berkeley, California) was inventor of the Bell helicopter, as well as a cosmologist, philosopher and author. He founded the "Institute for the Study of Consciousness" in Berkeley in 1972. Young advocated a process theory, which is a form of integral theory. These theories attempt to integrate the realm of human thought and experience with the realm of science so that the concept of universe is not limited to that which can be physically measured. Young's theory embraces evolution and the concept of the great chain of being. He has influenced such thinkers as Stanislav Grof. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur M. Young"
Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artefact. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artificial consciousness"
Founded in 1994, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness"
Benjamin Libet (* 1916) is a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Fransisco, and is a pioneering scientist in the study of human consciousness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Libet"
In psychology, bicameralism is a controversial theory asserting that the human brain once assumed a state known as a bicameral mind in which cognitive functions are divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking" and a second part that listens and obeys. The idea was proposed in the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, written by Julian Jaynes in 1976. It suggested that the bicameral mind was the natural state of the human mind as recently as 3000 years ago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bicameralism (psychology)"
Although individuals with damage to V1 are not consciously aware of stimuli presented in their blind field, Larry Weiskrantz and colleagues showed in the early 1970s that if forced to guess about whether a stimulus is present in their blind field, they do rather better than chance. This ability to detect stimuli that the individual is not aware of can extend to discrimination of the type of stimulus (for example, whether an 'X' or 'O' has been presented in the blind field), and has been dubbed blindsight. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blindsight"
Cartesian dualism was Descartes's principle of the separation of mind and matter and mind and body. The mind, according to Descartes, was a "thinking thing", and an immaterial substance. This "thing" was the essence of himself, the part that doubts, believes, hopes, and so on. The body is a material substance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cartesian dualism"
The Cartesian theater is a somewhat disparaging term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett to pointedly refer to the defining aspect of Cartesian materialism, which he considers to be the often unacknowledged remnants of Cartesian dualism in modern materialistic theories of the mind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cartesian theater"
Change Blindness (also known as Change Detection) is a phenomenon in visual perception where large changes in a visual scene are not noticed by the viewer. Typically for change blindness to occur, the change in the scene has to co-incide with some visual disruption such as an eye movement or a brief obscuration of the observed scene or image. ...more on Wikipedia about "Change blindness"
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. ( 1937– ) is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. His two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness ( 1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies ( 1975), became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Tart"
Philosopher and author Christian de Quincey, Ph.D. is a speaker on consciousness, spirituality and science at conferences and workshops in the United States and Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian de Quincey"
Christof Koch (born November 13, 1956, Kansas City) is an American neuroscientist educated in North Africa and Europe. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany in 1982. He currently holds the position of Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1986. From 2000 to 2005 he was the executive officer of the Computation and Neural Systems program at Caltech. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christof Koch"
Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neurology, and cognitive science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness"
The journal Consciousness and Cognition (ISSN: 1053-8100) provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. It features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book reviews, integrative theoretical and critical literature reviews, and tutorial reviews are also published. The journal aims to be both scientifically rigorous and open to novel contributions. The journal is edited by Bernard Baars and William Banks. It is an official journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness and Cognition"
Consciousness calibration is a neologism created by David R Hawkins for a subjective empirical procedure of applied kinesiology, that attempts to measure the human level of consciousness associated with thought forms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness calibration"
Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which attempts to explain how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness Explained"
In Buddhism, consciousness-only ( Sanskrit: ...more on Wikipedia about "Consciousness-only"
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942) is a prominent American philosopher. Dennett's research centers on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniel Dennett"
David Chalmers ( 1966 -) is a leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Chalmers"
Most approaches to physical interpretation of conscious phenomena are based on notion that binding and/or qualia are features of quantum coherent states. In decoherence hypothesis, the pure conscious experience, as complement to binding, is forced by physical complement of quantum coherent state, namely, by decoherent environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Decoherence hypothesis"
In psychology, egolessness is an emotional state where one feels no ego (or self); of having no distinct being apart from the world around oneself. From the view of Western psychoanalysis and therapy, the state of "oneness" can be either positive or negative depending on the patient, and in the context in which these feelings occur in each patient. ...more on Wikipedia about "Egolessness"
The electromagnetic theory of consciousness is a theory that says the electromagnetic field generated by the brain (known for a long time, and measured by EEG's) is the actual carrier of conscious experience. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electromagnetic theories of consciousness" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia
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