Submissions tagged with Consciousness
(7 documents)
Consciousness as Recursive, Spatiotemporal Self-Location
At the phenomenal level, consciousness can be described as a singular, unified field of recursive self-awareness, consistently coherent in a particular way; that of a subject located both spatially…
Received 20 October 2009 18:17 UTC; Posted 23 October 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The Central Enigma of Consciousness
Abstract: The nature and physical basis of consciousness remains the central enigma of the scientific description of reality in the third millennium. This paper seeks to examine the phenomenal natu…
Received 04 November 2008 08:10 UTC; Posted 05 November 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Subjective Experiences of Space and Time: Self, Sensation, and Phenomenal Time
The investigation of subjective experiences (SEs) of space and time is at the core of consciousness research. The term ‘space’ includes the subject and objects. The SE of subject, I-ness, is defi…
Received 08 September 2008 18:40 UTC; Posted 10 September 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry
When an image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the corresponding location of the other eye, they compete for conscious representation, such that only one image is …
Received 29 August 2008 16:55 UTC; Posted 02 September 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Sensory Transduction and Subjective Experience: Expression of eight genes in three senses suggests a radical model of consciousness
Recent research into whole genome mapping of the mouse brain has made possible direct investigation of the brain expression of unusual genes. A search of the Allen Brain Atlas database has provided…
Received 29 December 2007 22:36 UTC; Posted 01 January 2008
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Neuroscience
Prehistoric psychotropic consumption in Andean Chilean mummies
Hallucinogenic plants are often regarded as the main source of psychoactive drugs in antiquity to reach deep altered states of consciousness1,2. Many researchers believe this was particularly tru…
Received 29 November 2007 00:18 UTC; Posted 03 December 2007
Posted to: Chemistry, Pharmacology
Meta-Potentiation: Neuro-Astroglial Interactions Supporting Perceptual Consciousness
Conscious perceptual processing involves the sequential activation of cortical networks at several brain locations, and the onset of oscillatory synchrony affecting the same neuronal population. Ho…
Received 17 August 2007 19:13 UTC; Posted 20 August 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
