Device Consciousness and Collective Volition

AnigrafsTM: experiments in collective consciousness

A Model for a Collective Aesthetic Consciousness

During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger, 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st-century post-media condition, a process ...

Volition and Physical Laws

The term "known laws of physics" is meant to include any of the theoretical machinery used in unified field theory and string theory, even though these subjects are in an unfinished state. This theoretical machinery uses the same basic concepts-space, time, mass, interaction strength-as the present body of physics and does not make any assertions about consciousness. The concept of free will is...

Human Development IX: a model of the wholeness of man, his consciousness, and collective consciousness.

In this paper we look at the rational and the emotional interpretation of reality in the human brain and being, and discuss the representation of the brain-mind (ego), the body-mind (Id), and the outer world in the human wholeness (the I or "soul"). Based on this we discuss a number of factors including the coherence between perception, attention and consciousness, and the relation between thou...

Volition and imagery in neurorehabilitation.

New interventional approaches have been proposed in the last few years to treat the motor deficits resulting from brain lesions. Training protocols represent the gold-standard of these approaches. However, the degree of motor recovery experienced by most patients remains incomplete. It would be important to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying functional recovery. This chapter...