The problem of consciousness is one of the most important problems in science as well as in philosophy. There are different philosophers and different scientists who define it and explain it differently. As far as our knowledge of consciousness is concerned, ‘consciousness’ does not admit of a definition in terms of genus and differentia or necessary and sufficient condition. In this paper I sh...

What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness? In recent philosophy of mind, we are accustomed to underlining their independence. It is often emphasized that a person can be conscious of a host of objects, features, and states of affairs unrelated to her. When a person is conscious of the sky, or consciously experiences the blueness of the sky, she is not attending to hersel...

An interactive process model of the nature of representation intrinsically accounts for multiple emergent properties of consciousness, such as being a contentful experiential flow, from a situated and embodied point of view. A crucial characteristic of this model is that content is an internally related property of interactive process, rather than an externally related property as in all other ...

21 22 There is growing evidence that the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii modifies behaviour of its 23 intermediate hosts including humans, where it globally infects about 20-60 % of the population. 24 Although it is considered asymptomatic in its latent stage, it was previously found to have 25 remarkable and gender different effects on the personality factors A (warmth), G (rule 26 consciousness),...

Abstract: Anti-Black racism is an interruption of contact that often takes place out awareness, and continuously enacted through innumerable fixed gestalts at every level human experience. Gestalt therapy as a movement does not leverage its great potential for undoing anti-Black racism, or supporting fluid racial liberation; this article explores GT theories practices do so. I first discuss how...

It is a great pleasure to introduce this collection of papers on the use of introspective evidence in cognitive science. Our task as guest editors has been tremendously stimulating. We have received an outstanding number of contributions, in terms of quantity and quality, from academics across a wide disciplinary span, both from younger researchers and from the most experienced scholars in the ...

August Wilson’s place among the most significant chroniclers of African American history through medium fictional dramatic narratives is certainly not in doubt. Wilson consummated this a project to write cycle ten plays, each one representing moment every decade experience during 20th Century. ten-play constantly dramatises historical cross-roads at which Americans have found themselves as they...