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A double face view on mind-brain relationship: the problem of mental causation1
(Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Filosofia, 2017)
Interpreting results of contemporary neuroscientif studies, I present a non-reductive physicalist account of mind-brain relationship from which the criticism of unintelligibility ascribed to the notion of mental causation ...
Brain as agent and conscious mind as action guide: From Libet-style experiments to necessary conditions for free willCérebro como agente e mente consciente como guia de ação: Experimentos estilo-Libet e as condições necessárias para o livre-arbítrio
(2021-01-01)
Many neuroscientific experiments, based on monitoring brain activity, suggest that it is possible to predict the conscious intention/choice/decision of an agent before he himself knows that. Some neuroscientists and ...
The Brain and the Self in the Comprehensive Realism of Donald M. Mackay
(Università della Santa Croce, 2017-12)
The brain, the mind and the self are usually described as separate entities, although we intuitively recognize that they share some kind of relationship. The puzzle, however, begins when one tries to understand how a human ...
The relationship between executive functions and theory of mind: A long and winding road
(BMJ Journals, 2016-03)
The term Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer others’ mental states, and it has been related to frontal functioning. This brain area is also supposed to support Executive Functions (EF), broadly considered ...
Evolution and the Relationship between brain and mind states
(Human Sciences Press, Ine., 1996)
We discuss the phylogenetic basis of states of consciousness,
and present the central theses of monism and dualism, in which near-death
experiences (NDEs) enjoy very different ontological statuses. Next, we summarize
the ...
Regional brain atrophy is related to social cognition impairment in multiple sclerosis
(ASSOC ARQUIVOS NEURO- PSIQUIATRIA, 2021)
Background: Multiple sclerosis exhibits specific neuropathological phenomena driving to both global and regional brain atrophy. At the clinical level, the disease is related to functional decline in cognitive domains as ...
A relação mente-corpo e o problema da consciência em Searle
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2017-08-22)
Nesta Dissertação tratamos da relação mente-corpo e, em particular, do problema da consciência segundo o filósofo estadunidense John Searle, a partir de sua abordagem, conhecida como Naturalismo Biológico. De acordo com ...
Mindfulness: Principles and applications for work and life balance
Mindfulness is a vogue topic that has attracted the interest of many scholar people in fields of study such as medicine, psychology, business, education, among others; this has led to an increase in researches and the ...