Consciousness is at once the most familiar and the most mysterious aspect of our existence. Conscious experiences defi ne our lives, but the subjective, private, and qualitative nature of these experiences seems to resist scientifi c inquiry. For much of the twentieth century, consciousness research remained the exclusive preserve of philosophy , whose practitioners continue to grapple with the...

These authors do not mention associated post-traumatic epilepsy. I have seen in recent years three young men who, following a minor head injury, had attacks of altered consciousness, in two frankly epileptic, and on examination there were signs suggesting a lesion in the brain-stem. Case 1, J. G., aged 23, sustained a head injury on 3/12/50, when he slipped in the snow and fell on the back of h...

The primary aim of this commentary is to describe trauma-related dissociation and altered states of consciousness in the context of a four-dimensional model that has recently been proposed (Frewen & Lanius, 2015). This model categorizes symptoms of trauma-related psychopathology into (1) those that occur within normal waking consciousness and (2) those that are dissociative and are associated w...

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...

Elaborates a materialist view of consciousness. The central thesis of the book is that while conscious states are material, we humans have two quite different ways of thinking about them. We can think about them materially, as normal parts of the material world, but we can also think about them phenomenally, as states that feel a certain way. These two modes of thought refer to the same items i...

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...