The study investigated EFL teachers' current level of critical consciousness as well as their beliefs about the educational context where they taught. The study also explored how gender, teaching experience, workplace and academic degree differentiated the participants with regard to their critical consciousness. Drawing upon the related literature and the existing questionnaires in the field, ...

In this paper, I will try to show that the idea that there can be consciousness without some form of attention, and high-level top-down attention without consciousness, originates from a failure to notice the varieties of forms that top-down attention and consciousness can assume. I will present evidence that: there are various forms of attention and consciousness; not all forms of attention pr...

Two kinds of relations are generally proposed between consciousness and matter. Firstly matter gives rise to consciousness and secondly consciousness gives rise to matter. The second possibility is explored in the paper. The term consciousness vector has been proposed by the author earlier. In this paper the origin of space, time and matter is discussed in the terms of consciousness vector. It ...

James Joyce's Ulysses is one of the hall-marks of modernism in the realm of the novel. In this novel, Joyce breaks away from old patterns, employs new techniques, and presents the modern state  of  man  as  well  as  his  soul-lacking  indeterminate  communication  with  others.  Freud's theories on the unique and private quality of man's mode of consciousness and the meddling of the past with ...

Evolution is littered with paraphyletic convergences: many roads lead to functional Romes. We propose here another example – an equivalence class structure factoring the broad realm of possible mathematical realizations of the Baars Global Workspace consciousness model. The construction suggests many different physiological systems can support rapidly shifting, sometimes highly tunable, tempora...

The science of consciousness begins with the search for the neural correlates of consciousness. I explain this notion and give examples of research in the field. I then discuss how different conceptions of consciousness may influence the search for the neural correlates. This includes the distinctions between access and phenomenal consciousness, and between conscious states and unified consciou...

Every Science has a philosophy in its background and every computation has a natural phenomenon in it’s background. One of the most pronounced research domains in the recent times is study of consciousness, what we have chosen as our area of research. This field of research conglomerates both philosophy and phenomenology. Philosophy of consciousness helped to derive the scientific interpretatio...

BACKGROUND Study of imagination offers a perfect setting for study of a large variety of states of consciousness. OBJECTIVE Here, we studied the characteristics of two electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns evoked by two different imaginary tasks and evaluated the binary classification performance. METHODS Fifteen individuals (11 male and 4 female, age range of 22 to 33) participated in fiv...

At the time Marx was writing, metaphysics was in the grip of a dualism that separated mind from matter and, under the influence of Christian theology, often exaggerated a distinction into an antagonism; in such a world-view, body and soul were seen as warring parties with the body cast as the villain of the piece. Marx rejected the dualist philosophy and stressed that not only was there an inti...