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Extended Passive/Active Duality by Lindell, Eric

“…A structural duality of passive and active is found to characterize consciousness (as subjective experience and volitional agency, respectively) and physics…”
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Transgenerational Trauma: The Role of Epigenetics by Krippner, Stanley, Barrett, Deirdre

“…Epigenetics is the study of cellular variations that are caused by external, environmental factors that “switch” genes “on” and “off,” making changes in the…”
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AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 40

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Quantum Physics and the Future of Psychology by Campagne, Daniel M.

“…Quantum theory is still novel in physics and new findings are regularly reported. The theory affirms that the atomic and subatomic universe consists of quanta:…”
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CHANging Consciousness Epistemically (CHANCE): An Empirical Method to Convert the Subjective Content of Consciousness into Scientific Data by Tanaka, Daisuke H., Tanabe, Tsutomu

“…The content of consciousness (cC) constitutes an essential part of human life and is at the very heart of the hard problem of consciousness. The cC of a person…”
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What is Scientific Definition? by Hibberd, Fiona J.

“…Expertise in what is being measured, predicted, explained, replicated, etc. requires the development of scientific (conceptual) definitions. Yet an account of…”
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Animals Suffer Too — A Response to Akhtar’s “Animal Pain and Welfare: Can Pain Sometimes Be Worse for Them than for Us? by Rakover, Sam S.

“…In her chapter, Akhtar (2011) suggests that animals experience worse physical pain than humans because animals are not endowed with self-consciousness or with…”
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Thorndike’s Valuations Revisited by Henley, Tracy B., Paul, Stephen T.

“…In the early 1930s, Thorndike asked a variety of participants to estimate how much money (paid in cash) they would require to suffer a variety of pains (e.g.,…”
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A No-Go Theorem for the Mind–Body Problem: An Informal Proof that No Purely Physical System Can Exhibit All the Properties of Human Consciousness by Reason, Catherine M.

“…This article presents an operationalized solution to the mind–body problem which relies on a well-defined effective procedure rather than philosophical…”
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Learning How to Represent: An Associationist Account by Salay, Nancy A.

“…The paper develops a positive account of the representational capacity of cognitive systems: simple, associationist learning mechanisms and an architecture…”
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A Note on Active Panpsychism by Lindell, Eric

“…Panpsychism holds that all matter is inherently conscious, circumventing the knotty issue of how consciousness can emerge from physical phenomena. In the usual…”
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The Fallacy of the Impaired Brain in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Continues: A Critical Review of Recent Neuroimaging Studies by Visdómine–Lozano, J. Carmelo

“…This paper reviews seven recent studies that employed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to calculate volumetric brain differences between groups of children…”
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On the Psychology of Demon Possession: The Occult Personality by Crooks, Mark

“…The notions of possession within psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, parapsychology, and demonology are evaluated as to their relative de/merits. The sheer…”
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Crooked Spirits and Spiritual Identity Theft: A Keener Response to Crooks? by Keener, Craig S.

“…Mark Crooks’ article offers a new paradigm for exploration: namely, that many instances in the transcultural phenomenon of spirit possession reflect the…”
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Demon Possession: Symbolic Language and the Psychic Fact by Isaacs, T. Craig

“…The concept of demon possession fell out of scientific favor with the rise of modern and post-modern philosophies. These ways of thinking, however, have failed…”
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Commentary on Mark Crooks’s Essay, “On the Psychology of Demon Possession: The Occult Personality” by Montgomery, John Warwick

“…The present short commentary on Crooks’s essay focuses on Crooks’s methodological distinction between proper empirical, scientific method and the so-called…”
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Shamelessness in Jane Austen: The Case of Lady Susan by McClelland, Richard T.

“…The phenomenology of shame, as well as its adaptive character, is explored from a modern biological point of view. Against this backdrop, an analysis of…”
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Accounting for the Specious Present: A Defense of Enactivism by Hasanoglu, Kaplan

“…I argue that conscious visual experience is essentially a non-representational demonstration of a skill. The explication and defense of this position depends…”
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How Sustainable are Different Levels of Consciousness? by Wiersma, Erik J.

“…The human brain processes a wide variety of inputs and does so either consciously or subconsciously. According to the global workspace theory, conscious…”
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Broken Brains or Flawed Studies? An Update on Leo and Cohen’s Critical Review of ADHD Neuroimaging by Marley, Charles, O’Leary, Anna M., Nikopoulou, Vasiliki-Aliki

“…This systematic review sought to examine neuroimaging results on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) published between 2003 and 2015, paying…”
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