A multivariate study was conducted on 23 subjects practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique and participating in a six-month Age of Enlightenment advanced training program. The electroencephalogram of each subject was recorded before and during the Transcendental Meditation technique, and compressed spectral arrays of coherence above a threshold of0.95 were subsequently generated by co...

To the best of our knowledge, the palliative care unit at Port Kembla Hospital in Warrawong, New South Wales, Australia, is the only one currently evaluating the contribution that Bispectral Index (BIS)-like technology makes to the management of unconscious palliative care patients. We are trialing the BIS monitor with forty eligible subjects who, with their immediate family members, give us in...

This paper examines Yilmaz, Ören and Aghaee's outline of present research efforts into the development of simulations that " represent the behavior of active (human) entities in the world. " The paper argues that the Carter-Bostrom formulation of the anthropic principle provides a more functional set of theoretical, and pragmatic proposals to frame the issue of the simulation of human sociocogn...

BACKGROUND Respiration management is an important and critical issue in prehospital transportation phase of multiple trauma patients. However, the quality of this important care has not been assessed in Iran Emergency Medical Services' (EMS). OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the quality of prehospital respiration management in patients with multiple trauma, referred to the S...

BACKGROUND The bispectral index (BIS) and the spectral entropy (state entropy, SE, and response entropy, RE) are depth-of-anaesthesia monitors derived from EEG and have been developed to measure the effects of anaesthetics on the cerebral cortex. We studied whether they can differentiate consciousness from unconsciousness during increasing doses of three different anaesthetic agents. METHODS ...

A method is described for the removal of AC interference from the electrocardiogram in monitors which do not have isolated inputs. The patient's leads are connected to an isolation amplifier which provides isolation between the input and the output and has a high common mode rejection ratio. The output from the isolation amplifier is taken to the electrocardiographic monitor. The isolation ampl...

Consciousness has been proposed to play a key role in shaping flexible learning and as such is thought to confer an evolutionary advantage. Attention and awareness are the perhaps most important underlying processes, yet their precise relationship is presently unclear. Both of these processes must, however, serve the evolutionary imperatives of survival and procreation. They are thus intimately...

Abstract As computers became multi-component systems in the 1950s, handling speed differentials efficiently was identified as a major challenge. The desire for better understanding and control of ‘concurrency’ spread into hardware, software, formalism. This paper examines way which problem emerged handled across various computing cultures from 1955 to 1985. In machinic culture late system progr...

Siewert's book revolves around three theses: that there is a distinctive style of epistemic warrant associated with the first-person point of view, that if we pay close attention to the deliverances of this first-person point of view, we will see that phenomenal consciousness is both real and yet neglected by many current theories that purport to explain consciousness, and that phenomenal consc...

Analysis of the relationship of altered states of consciousness (ASC) to culture and human psychobiology provides guidance for new approaches for addressing substance abuse and dependence. While Western cultures have a long history of repressing ASC, cross-cultural research illustrates the ubiquitous human drive to alter consciousness and the near universality of institutionalized healing pract...