Do we need to attend to an object in order to be conscious of it, and are the objects of our attention necessarily part of our conscious experience? A tight link between attention and consciousness has often been assumed, but it has recently been questioned, on the basis of psychophysical evidence suggesting a double dissociation between top-down attention and consciousness. The present review ...

Ground Representationism is the position that for each phenomenal feature there is a representational feature that accounts for it. Against this thesis, Ned Block has provided an intricate argument that rests on the notion of “phenomenal precision”: the phenomenal precision of a percept may change at a different rate from its representational counterpart. If so, there is then no representationa...

This study identified the relationship between religiosity and subjective well-being of middle-aged Korean women, examined a double mediating effect model existential consciousness savoring beliefs on this relationship. The participants were 285 aged 40–60 years. PROCESS Macro 3.5 Model 6 was used to analyze sequential effects. results revealed that positively correlated with whereas their intr...

The author provides a preliminary framework for a systematic and dynamic understanding of dissociation through a consideration of the theories of Hughlings Jackson. Jackson's ideas are briefly reviewed. He saw the proper scientific investigation of mental illness as an experimental investigation of mind. Accordingly, his argument begins with this fundamental concept. His views of the brain-mind...

This paper attempts to take the ocean of experiences, feelings and thoughts in relation online teaching as a reaction restrictions on face-to-face brought about by COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 that have passed through my mind, having been influenced efforts ruminations others, fit it into teacup. The purpose this exercise, grappling with visceral tensions experienced moment despite similarities evoke...

The year 2016 marks the centenary of the birth of Francis Crick (1916-2004), who made outstanding contributions to genetics and neuroscience. In 1953, in a collaborative study, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the DNA double helix, and in 1962 they and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Crick subsequently became very interested in neuroscience, part...

A double-blind study of the effects of diazepam as an adjuvant to propanidid anaesthesia for legal abortion has shown that the incidence of nausea and vomiting was significandy reduced as a result of giving diazepam, and that, in general, the conditions of anaesthesia were more acceptable widi diazepam. The diazepam group had a prolongation of the time to recovery of consciousness but this was ...