Consciousness
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon Dennett, D. C. (1998). The practical requirements for making a conscious robot. In D. C. Dennett, Brai ...
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CHAPTER Altered states of consciousness tHIRteen One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its t ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs DEFINING ASCS James’s ‘other forms of consciousness’ would now be called ‘altered states of con- sci ...
Chapter Thirteen Altered states of consciousness Another problem is inherent in the whole idea of subjective definitions: they m ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs materialists, identity theorists, and some functionalists? If such theories are cor- rect, then we s ...
Chapter Thirteen Altered states of consciousness remember what you started out to say before you finish the sentence, but it can ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs two dimensions: irrationality and ability to hal- lucinate. By plotting a person’s position in this s ...
Chapter Thirteen Altered states of consciousness Content of consciousness (awareness) REM sleep Deep sleep Light sleep General a ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs A psychological and neurobiological review of ASCs (Vaitl et al., 2005) included states experienced s ...
Although we are a very long way from that depth of understanding, our pheno- technology is rapidly improving and will bring with ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs profound sense of union with the universe and love for all creation, and some raves are regarded by t ...
I began to realise that I was the One, and the universe of which I was the principle was balancing itself into completeness. (Du ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs In a study comparing frequent, infrequent, and ex-users, two-thirds described the most appealing asp ...
mind-manifesting, but other names are often used. Psychotomimetic means madness-mimicking, but this is inappropriate because alt ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs Describing the subjective effects of cannabis is not easy, partly because ‘Most people cannot find th ...
What can we learn about ASCs from this extraordinary mixture of complex effects? Here we have a range of states, sought out by m ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs wait for the results’ (1954, p. 13). In The Doors of Perception, he describes how a vase of three ill ...
Chapter Thirteen Altered states of consciousness Another powerful psychedelic and entheogen found in plants is DMT (N,N-di- meth ...
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