The central dogma of cognitive psychology is ‘consciousness is a process, not a thing’. Hence, the main task of cognitive neuroscientists is generally seen as working out what kinds of neural processing are conscious and what kinds are not. I argue here that the central dogma is simply wrong. All neural processing is unconscious. The illusion that some of it is conscious results largely from a ...

We explore statistical characteristics of avalanches associated with the dynamics of a complexnetwork model, where two modules corresponding to sensorial and symbolic memories interact, representing unconscious and conscious mental processes. The model illustrates Freud’s ideas regarding the neuroses and that consciousness is related with symbolic and linguistic memory activity in the brain. It...

In the last decade, careful studies of the living brain have opened the way for human consciousness to return to the heights it held before the behavioristic coup of 1913. This is illustrated by seven cases: (1) the discovery of widespread brain activation during conscious perception; (2) high levels of regional brain metabolism in the resting state of consciousness, dropping drastically in unc...

I will speak here about personality in general and also about the process of what we may call the degradation of consciousness-what is technically called the "theory of neurosis u-and which finds symbolic echo in the spiritual traditions in the mythical stories of the "fall from paradise." I will not make a distinction between the spiritual "fall" of consciousness and the psychological process ...

Contemporary science is based on the claim that all reality is material or physical. There is no reality but material reality. Consciousness is a by-product of the physical activity of the brain. Matter is unconscious. Evolution is purposeless. This view is now undergoing a credibility crunch. The biggest problem of all for materialism is the existence of consciousness. Panpsychism provides a w...

“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of unconscious, love life suicidal, leg amputee, eyes newly blind, a means locomotion for newborn, knowledge and confidence young mother, voice those too weak to speak” (Virginia Henderson) [1].

In The Lancet, Damian Cruse and colleagues' study 1 examines 16 patients in the vegetative state. This disorder is defi ned as wakefulness without conscious awareness of self and environment. The investigators showed that three (19%) of the 16 patients could generate EEG responses to two commands involving motor imagery, although the patients were otherwise behaviourally unresponsive. But how c...