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A Stone May Be Conscious
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Abstract: This work attempts to demonstrate the significant possibility (as contrast to the superhyperbolic or the least possibility) in an apparently inanimate thing, like a stone, being conscious. According to the semi-idealistic framework of the NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory, any spatial, and ... More »
Bohmian Mechanics: Vague and Absurd
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Abstract: This work attempts to show that Bohmian mechanics is vague and absurd on two basic grounds. Bohmian mechanics essentially postulates the existence of a subtle force called “the quantum potential” which pervades all space and provides direct connections between quantum systems. It suggests that a total ... More »
David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
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Abstract: The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in "What the bleep do we know?; and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness ... More »
Foundations of Cognition, Spring 2003
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Abstract: Advances in cognitive science have resolved, clarified, and sometimes complicated some of the great questions of Western philosophy: what is the structure of the world and how do we come to know it; does everyone represent the world the same way; what is the best way for us to act in the world. Specific ... More »
Introducing consciousness
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Abstract: What is consciousness? How does the brain generate consciousness and how can a science of the mind describe and explain it adequately? This unit will introduce you to the slippery phenomenon that is consciousness, as well as some of the difficulties consciousness presents to science and philosophy.
Introduction to Psychology
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Abstract: What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. ... More »
Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2001
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Abstract: A first course in psychology: how we think, see, feel, learn, talk, act, grow, fear, like, love, hate, lust, and interact. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Largely experimental and social psychology, with relevant ideas from biology, ... More »
Other Minds, Spring 2003
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Abstract: This is a seminar on issues connected with the traditional "problem of other minds". In addition to reading some of the classic papers on other minds, we will look at recent work on related topics. There will be no lectures. Each week I will spend half an hour or so introducing the assigned reading, ... More »
Psychotherapy, Consciousness, and Well-being Fall 2007
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Abstract: Psychotherapy, Consciousness, and Well-being. From Psych 156: Human Emotion - Fall 2007. This course will examine two different theoretical perspectives on emotion: (1) the differential emotions approach with its strong evolutionary grounding, and (2) the social constructionist approach. Next, the course ... More »
Semi-Idealism + Semi-Dualism
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Abstract: The purpose of this work is to bring out “semi-idealistic + semi-dualistic metaphysics” through the NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory. The NSTP theory is a (philosophy of mind) semi-idealistic as well as semi-dualistic theory that the material universe, where some peculiar phenomena like quantum ... More »
Should A Criminal Solipsist Be Acquitted?
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Abstract: The purpose of this work is to discuss whether a criminal solipsist should be acquitted. A solipsist is generally a one who believes that other apparently animate (and also inanimate) entities have no feeling/s or state/s of consciousness associated with them. Therefore, considering that solipsism makes ... More »
The NSTP (Non-Spatial Thinking Process) Theory
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Abstract: The NSTP (Non - Spatial Thinking Process) theory is a theory that the material universe is exclusively a group of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thinking processes existing in the form of (non-spatial physical/material) feelings (i.e. states of consciousness). In computer terminology, it regards ... More »
The NSTP (Non-Spatial Thinking Process) Theory
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Abstract: The NSTP theory is a (philosophy of mind) semi-idealistic as well as semi-dualistic theory that the material universe, where some peculiar phenomena like quantum non-locality exist in, is exclusively a group of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thinking processes existing in the form of (non-spatial ... More »
The NSTP Theoretical Solution of the Problem of Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap: The introduction of fundamental new ideas in physics and in mathematics
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Abstract: This work presents the NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theoretical (philosophy of mind) idealistic solution to the problem of Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, the millennium problem announced by the Clay Mathematics Institute. As stated by the institute, ‘Quantum Yang-Mills theory is now the ... More »
The Self-Evident Non-Spatiality of Consciousness
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Abstract: The purpose of this work is to describe that ‘it is self-evident that consciousness is non-spatial’; that is, ‘consciousness can be represented by no spatial structure’. It considers the example of the consciousness of bodily pain, which is stated to be conceptually distinct from its bodily counterpart, ... More »
The Universe as a Non-Spatial Computer: A computational description of idealism
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Abstract: The purpose of this work is to bring out "a computational description of idealism" through the NSTP (Non ? Spatial Thinking Process) theory. The NSTP theory is a (philosophy of mind) semi-idealistic as well as semi-dualistic theory that the material universe, where some peculiar phenomena like quantum ... More »
Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Perceptual Experience, Spring 2007
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Abstract: This course examines the recent philosophy of perception. Topics considered include transparency of experience, consciousness, sensory awareness, content of visual experience, thought ownership, thought disorders, schizophrenia, introspection, and sound. Questions raised by these topics include "Is there ... More »
