3 Juan Peng, Yingying Deng, Fangyao Chen, Xiaomei Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Ying 4 Zhou, Hongzhen Zhou*, Binghui Qiu* 5 Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong 510515, China 6 Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 7 Guangdong 510515, China 8 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 9 Southern Medical University,...

The study investigated a link between theory of mind and episodic memory involving autonoetic consciousness (). Eighty-nine Japanese 4- to 6-year-olds received two versions of a false belief task, a task of aspectuality or knowledge origins, and four memory tests. After controlling for age, most theory of mind abilities showed no interrelations, and own and other's belief understandings in dece...

A novel theory of reflective consciousness, will and self is presented, based on modeling each of these entities using self-referential mathematical structures called hypersets. Pattern theory is used to argue that these exotic mathematical structures may meaningfully be considered as parts of the minds of physical systems, even finite computational systems. The hyperset models presented are hy...

Our qualitative study examines the social psychology of gay men’s experiences with their procreative, father, and family identities. Indepth interviews were conducted with 19 childless gay men and 20 gay men in the United States who have fathered using diverse means excluding heterosexual intercourse. By focusing on men aged 19 – 55 residing primarily in Florida and New York, our novel analysis...

Following the seminal work of Ingvar (1985. "Memory for the future": An essay on the temporal organization of conscious awareness. Human Neurobiology, 4, 127-136), Suddendorf (1994. The discovery of the fourth dimension: Mental time travel and human evolution. Master's thesis. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand), and Tulving (1985. Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychology/Psychol...

Increasing evidence suggests that individual differences in the reporting of microaggressions or subtle forms of everyday discrimination increases risk for poor health, but data on within-person associations between microaggressions and behavioral health outcomes is limited. This study examines the association between daily racial microaggressions and sleep disturbance and assesses whether the ...

Setting aside the problems of recognising consciousness in a machine, this article considers what would be needed for a machine to have human-like consciousness. Human-like consciousness is an illusion; that is, it exists but is not what it appears to be. The illusion that we are a conscious self having a stream of experiences is constructed when memes compete for replication by human hosts. So...

There are, at least, two kinds of consciousness-personal or individual consciousness, and transpersonal or unitive consciousness. Personal consciousness is the human experience of multiplicity, of things being discrete and separate, For example, we experience ourselves as separate from the rest of the world, from objects and other organisms. Personal consciousness filters data relevant to our p...

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Episodic memory deficits are almost always the first cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease (AD). AD is also characterized by a loss of self-awareness. The aim of this article is to give an interpretation of AD patients’ episodic impairments through the study of the relationship between memory and the self. Using the Remember/Know paradigm associated with the self-reference effect and emotio...