During development, the brain creates multilevel feedback loops critical for the generation and maintenance of consciousness. The thalamus has a central role in these circuits. Thalamic core nuclei are part of sensory circuits that give rise to contents of experience; diffuse thalamic matrix nuclei are part of arousal circuits that modulate levels of wakefulness. While core and matrix circuits ...

The paper addresses the formation of moral consciousness in organizations. In particular, it focus to what extent and how organizational arrangements encourage and/or prohibit the development and exercise of moral judgement among newspaper professionals. The paper draws empirically from a case study of a Swedish evening newspaper, and from interviews with professionals from various kinds of med...

A key contention of Klein & Barron (2016) is that consciousness does not depend on cortical structures. A critical appraisal suggests they have overestimated the strength of their evidence. Sean Hermanson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University in Miami, specializing in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His work on animals includes articles on bees, ...

Impaired consciousness in temporal lobe seizures has a major negative impact on quality of life. The prevailing view holds that this disorder impairs consciousness by seizure spread to the bilateral temporal lobes. We propose instead that seizures invade subcortical regions and depress arousal, causing impairment through decreases rather than through increases in activity. Using functional magn...

In this study, we examined the construct of the imaginary audience (Elkind & Bowen, 1979), presumably a precipitant of adolescent egocentrism, as it relates to public individuation and self-consciousness. We hypothesized that the imaginary audience inhibits public individuation and represents a critical form of public self-consciousness. We also argued that the imaginary audience is a normal as...

Syndromes of global cerebral dysfunction that are associated with critical illness include acute disorders (eg, coma, delirium) and chronic processes (ie, cognitive impairment). These syndromes can result from direct cerebral injury; however, many cases develop as a complication of a systemic insult. Coma frequently evolves into phenomenologically distinct disorders of consciousness; it must be...

Absfrucf-An engineering approach to attention and motor response is presented, culminating in the CODAM model of consciousness. Support for the presence of several of the relevant modules is discussed from data from a range of experimental paradigms. Two particular paradigms are explored in greater depth. CODAM’s relation to other neural approaches to consciousness is discussed in the next sect...

Abstract This essay examines two readings of Hegel, namely Robyn Marasco’s The Highway Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel and Stephen Houlgate’s On Being to construct a Hegelian political theory. From radically different perspectives, both books ask what it means be “critical.” Some interpret being critical as implying avoiding ontological claims. Against this, I argue that Marxists should gu...

The socio-cultural essence of infodemic, as a factor social instability in the global processes our time, has been determined. It proved that spread mass culture and consciousness served basis for emergence infodemic. influence stereotypes public on process spreading misinformation revealed. substantiated infodemic can be an integral part information hybrid wars. Negative consequences life info...