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Consciousness
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Tricia L. Chandler, Tara G. Matthews, Karlene Barrett, M. A. Lawless Coker
Consciousness has been viewed from many perspectives but can be broadly defined as awareness of one’s subjective and objective experience, perceived through one’s sensations, feelings, and thoughts. Farthing (1992) linked consciousness with aspects of awareness, attention, and memory. Pekala (1991) described the quality of consciousness as being inclusive of all perceptions, memory, mental images of imagery, alertness, self-awareness, positive and negative affect, body image, sense of time, and internal dialog.
Consciousness
Published in Justin Amery, The Integrated Practitioner, 2022
So selfhood and consciousness seem to be interrelated in a circular way. Given that we can’t easily define selfhood, it should be of no surprise to discover that consciousness is similarly difficult to define. Consciousness and awareness are similar, but they are not the same. We can be aware of things we are not conscious of, and we can be conscious of things we are not aware of. Consciousness seems to be something to do with ideas, representations, beliefs, attitudes and motivations. It is also used in a psychoanalytical context to describe those drives and motivations that we are aware of.
Trauma Defenses
Published in Alice Bullard, Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal, 2022
Humans, however, ceaselessly adopt their physiological state into their emotions, their perceptions, and from thence into conscious narration. Within that rich, complicated process, we focus for the moment only on the narration. Denial and dissociation promote stories of elision. That which is left out of the story is the denied. Metaphysical content of such narration has stood as a dividing ground from the scientific, rational narratives. This chapter, however, emphasizes the common ground of physiological autonomic dorsal vagal states that give rise to denial, dissociation, and magical thinking. This physiological process is universal even if narrative differs among individuals, and between groups. Equally true, denial conditions narrative scope, perspective, and modality. Consciousness arises in interaction with physiological state and feeds back into the neurobiological mechanisms. Affective perception of external stimuli and interoception of the body itself might share common qualities with a larger or smaller group, or might be idiosyncratic. Dysfunctional idiosyncratic perception and ideation characterizes mental illness.
Stretching beyond our perceived boundaries: The role of speech-language pathology in realising autonomy through supported decision-making
Published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023
A deep dive into emerging theories of neuroscience and the source of consciousness has led to a comparison of the respective functioning of the cerebral cortex and the brain stem. The cerebral cortex is historically assumed to be the seat of conscious action and intelligence, while the brain stem is responsible for performing automatic/unconscious functions. Solms, however, argue that consciousness arises not in the cortex, but in the more primitive brain stem, where basic emotions begin. As it is the cortex that is typically damaged for people with profound intellectual and multiple disability, there is a long held hypothesis that people with PIMD lack the ability to engage in conscious action and thought. It is this hypothesis that neuroscientists such as Solms and colleagues are challenging (Solms, 2015, 2022; Solms & Panksepp, 2012; Solms & Turnbull, 2018).
An Alternative Approach to Assessing the Moral Status of Artificial Entities
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2023
In addition, as Hildt also agrees, there is very little consensus currently on how the notion of consciousness should be understood. The notion of phenomenal consciousness, for example, is sometimes used interchangeably with the notion of sentience, particularly around the capacity to subjectively experience positive or negative feelings. However, the notion of phenomenal consciousness is also applied by some commentators in a much broader sense, where sentience is only an aspect of phenomenal consciousness. Also, as Hildt mentions too, the notion of consciousness is closely associated with the long running and intractable debates around the mind/body problem. That is whether the mind and the physical brain are distinct and separate, or are one and the same. Due to these ongoing and challenging conceptual debates about consciousness, work on developing any form of artificial human level consciousness is at a very early stage. The computer scientist Stuart Russell (2019), for example, has stated that we currently have no idea what consciousness is or how it functions, and in terms of building a conscious robot we have absolutely no idea where to start.
Correlates of Taiwanese Gay and Bisexual Men’s Family-Building Preferences: A Mediation Analysis
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
Bobo Hi Po Lau, Marty W. Forth, Yu-Te Huang
The procreative identity framework informs this research, illustrating how men become aware of and enact their capability to create or nurture a human life (Marsiglio, 2003). While procreative identity is often described as a personal experience, this framework stresses understanding procreative identity as a social process that evolves over time in the context of cultural obligations, socio-cultural and political parameters, and interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics (Gato, Santos, & Fontaine, 2017; Marsiglio, 2003; Marsiglio, Hutchinson, & Cohan, 2001). In addition, procreative consciousness may translate into decision making and action in a wider context that provides both opportunities and constraints. Previous research has shown that many gay and bisexual men may negate the idea of fatherhood until they learn about different family-building options and observe the social acceptance of gay men as fathers (Berkowitz, 2008; Berkowitz & Marsiglio, 2007; Carone et al., 2017; Murphy, 2013; Smietana, 2018).