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  1. Mountaineers under extreme stress perceive a benevolent presence. Buddhist contemplatives map consciousness without a permanent self. Alzheimer’s patients lose their autobiography but keep making experience.

    Three independent observations. One conclusion: consciousness precedes the narrative self and survives its dissolution.

    medium.com/materia-philosophy-

    #Consciousness #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Jaynes #Buddhism #Alzheimers #Writing

  2. 🌌 Near-death experience – insight into the transition to the afterlife 🕊️

    In our #Zoomposium with #GodehardBrüntrup, we talk about the #metaphysics of consciousness, his own #near-death experience, and the question of whether such experiences fit into a naturalistic worldview – or whether they point us to a deeper dimension of #reality.

    🎥 Interview: youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

    📎 Information: philosophies.de/index.php/2022

    #NTE #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #NearDeathResearch #BodyMindProblem

  3. Michael Rescorla has revised his SEP-entry on The Compurational Theory of Mind (CTM), plato.stanford.edu/entries/com

    A decade ago I thougt this theory would surely be passé with respect to understanding human cognitive processes. That may have been with the previous edition of the entry (by Steven Horst) and/or IEP's take on the subject (by Marcin Milkowski), iep.utm.edu/computational-theo

    Perhaps it is time to give CTM another try, if something else doesn't pop up to my extremely short and tardy reading list?

    #sep #revised #ctm #mind #theoryOfMind #computation #cognition #philosophyOfMind #philosophy