One of the distinctive properties of conscious states is the peculiar selfawareness implicit in them. Two rival accounts of this self-awareness are discussed. According to a Neo-Brentanian account, a mental state M is conscious iff M represents its very own occurrence. According to the Higher-Order Monitoring account, M is merely accompanied by a numerically distinct representation of its occur...

The ability to recognize one’s own face is a hallmark of self-awareness. In healthy subjects, the sympathetic skin response evoked by self-face recognition has a greater area under the curve of the signal than responses evoked by other visual stimuli. We evaluated the sympathetic skin responses evoked by self-face images and by six other visual stimuli (conditions) in 15 patients with severe di...

In my article 'The impossibility of finitism: from SSK to ESK?' (Tyfield 2008), I argued that the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an important, indeed necessary, precursor of an economics of scientific knowledge (ESK), opening the way for the empirical exploration of the impact of economic factors on the production of scientific knowledge. Without SSK's arguments for the irreducible ...

This article is dedicated to the educational researchers and academia involved in initial training of students. The process based on a set principles, intrinsic consciousness one them. It guides personality development towards forming self-concept worldview. Furthermore, this principle stems from four dimensions spiritual intelligence, namely transcendental awareness, which focuses developing s...

Functional neuroimaging shows that patients with disorders of consciousness exhibit disrupted system-level functional connectivity. Unresponsive/"vegetative state" patients preserve wakefulness networks of brainstem and basal forebrain but the cerebral networks accounting for external perceptual awareness and internal self-related mentation are disrupted. Specifically, the 'external awareness' ...

We calculate soft phase-space and loop master integrals tor the computation of color-singlet cross sections through N$^3$LO in perturbative QCD. Our results are functions homogeneous transcendental weight include first nine terms expansion dimensional regulator $\epsilon$. discuss application our to deeply-inelastic scattering $e^+e^-$ annihilation processes. use these compute coefficient for D...

Milner and Goodale's (1995) influential theory of visual processing suggests that only the ventral stream is directly associated with explicit conscious experience. However the implicit/explicit distinction does not map clearly onto the two visual streams. Whilst there is good evidence for the non-conscious nature of dorsal stream processing, evidence suggests that substantial processing in the...

BACKGROUND The distribution and elimination of 0.9% saline given by intravenous infusion has not been compared between the conscious state and during inhalational anesthesia. METHODS Six adult sheep received an intravenous infusion of 25 ml/kg of 0.9% saline over 20 min in the conscious state and also during isoflurane anesthesia and mechanical ventilation. The distribution and elimination of...

Passive exposure to neutral stimuli increases subsequent liking of those stimuli--the mere exposure effect. Because of the broad implications for understanding and controlling human preferences, the role of conscious awareness in mere exposure has received much attention. Previous studies have claimed that the mere exposure effect can occur without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In two exp...

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence, organizational optimism and Kant's moral conscientious view on the productivity of first grade high school teachers in Hamadan in the academic year 2018-2019. Method: The method of this study is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population includes all teachers of the first second...