Barron and Klein (1) define consciousness very narrowly, excluding most of the attributes commonly associated with it (e.g., self-awareness). By limiting the definition to a form of information processing, they find that insects qualify. However, just to put this conclusion in perspective, by the same definition, some robots are also conscious and capable of subjective experience. Autonomous, s...

The second season of Why Women Kill has been widely disseminated and discussed in China. By combining an in-depth viewing II the current development Chinese feminism, this paper adopts textual close reading to analyze connotation beauty, awakening female self-awareness, abnormal feminism. work hopes promote further raise level gender consciousness whole society accumulate experience provide ref...

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. The primary purpose is to revisit Ned Block’s distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness. The secondary purpose is to examine key case studies from consciousness research in the cognitive sciences. Block has argued that what he calls phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness are completely independent phenomena, and that...

Introduction. Associative research is widely practiced in the field of sciences related to linguistics as an interdisciplinary approach study relationship language with consciousness, psyche, and human culture; corpus associative data we have created Kazakh replenishes lexicography context broad intercultural comparisons. 
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Based on the analysis of articles published in magazine “Ženský svět”, author research completed image “a new type woman” Czech lands. The period study was defined by an active struggle for women’s suffrage taken 1900–1907. It also shown how deliverance consciousness from gender stereotypes took place. presented their desire to go beyond usual framework society and through expansion secondary e...

This article outlines the progression of topics used to highlight gender in a clinical medical anthropology class. As the class moves through themes such as the use of high-technology medicine and doctor-patient communication, issues of the socially constructed nature of gender are brought to the fore. Included in this article are students' reflections on how they try to make sense of diverse n...

Using three of the clinical articles in this special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality as examples, the author attempts to show how their views of gender may influence clinicians' conceptualizations and treatment choices in response to children diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID), or gender dysphoria. In particular the author argues that the belief that gender is a psychophysiolog...