This article analyses the functioning of concepts “epoch”, “period”, and “generation” in nineteenth-century literature, criticism, literature studies. The concept “epoch” presupposes a linear stage understanding interpretation history, “period” can also be used within other historical development. sometimes replaced by “century”, were traditionally as measurement units culture history (cf. work...

The development of a critical consciousness around issues poverty is an essential goal social work educators. Teaching students about requires that they evaluate their preexisting attitudes to assess compatibility with professional ethics and values. Recognizing the meaning give prior attitudes, course experiences, personal reflections can help educators better understand how shifts in may occu...

Loss of consciousness (LOC) is a dramatic clinical manifestation of temporal lobe seizures. Its underlying mechanism could involve altered coordinated neuronal activity between the brain regions that support conscious information processing. The consciousness access hypothesis assumes the existence of a global workspace in which information becomes available via synchronized activity within neu...

The measurement of pain depends upon subjective reports, but we know very little about how research subjects or pain patients produce self-reported judgments. Representationalist assumptions dominate the field of pain research and lead to the critical conjecture that the person in pain examines the contents of consciousness before making a report about the sensory or affective magnitude of pain...

Efforts to study consciousness using computational models over the last two decades have received a decidedly mixed reception. Investigators in mainstream AI have largely ignored this work, and some members of the philosophy community have argued that the whole endeavor is futile. Here we suggest that very substantial progress has been made, to the point where the use of computational simulatio...