On 6 August 1773, eleven years after first meeting Boswell, Johnson set out to visit his friend in Scotland, and to begin "a journey to the western islands of Scotland", as Johnson's 1775 account of t ...
Main article: Early life of Samuel JohnsonLarge three-storey house on a corner siteJohnson's birthplace in Market Square, LichfieldBorn on 18 September 1709 (New Style) to Michael Johnson, a bookselle ...
The term "altered state of consciousness" was introduced and defined by Ludwig in 1966. An altered state of consciousness is any mental state induced by physiological, psychological, or pharmacologica ...
Relatively little has been discovered about the cause of the condition since its initial identification. Recent studies from the empirical data are prone to consider anosognosia a multi-componential s ...
We owe much of our current understanding of blindsight to early experiments on monkeys. One monkey in particular, Helen, could be considered the "star monkey in visual research" because she was the or ...
The effectiveness in subliminal messaging has been demonstrated to prime individual responses and stimulate mild emotional activity. Applications, however, often base themselves on the persuasiveness ...
Neuropsychology is a relatively new discipline within the field of psychology; however, the history of its discovery can be traced all the way back to the Third Dynasty in ancient Egypt – perhaps eve ...
Ontological dualism makes dual commitments about the nature of existence as it relates to mind and matter, and can be divided into three different types:Substance dualism asserts that mind and matter ...
Further information: Personhood#Non-human animalsIn the animal rights movement, it is common to distinguish between "human animals" and "non-human animals". Participants in the animal rights movement ...
The older doctrine, here called universal mechanism, is the ancient philosophies closely linked with materialism and reductionism, especially that of the atomists and to a large extent, stoic physics. ...
Velmans' Understanding Consciousness (2000) is a comprehensive summary of his theoretical work, and introduces the idea of "reflexive monism."Reflexive monism presents itself as an alternative to both ...
Main article: Philosophy of selfThe philosophy of self seeks to describe essential qualities that constitute a person's uniqueness or essential being. There have been various approaches to defining th ...
The longer the brain has been awake, the greater the spontaneous firing rates of cerebral cortex neurons with this increase being reversed by sleep. Another effect of wakefulness (which may or may not ...
Subjectivity is an inherently social mode that comes about through innumerable interactions within society. As much as subjectivity is a process of individuation, it is equally a process of socializat ...
Awareness is a relative concept. An animal may be partially aware, may be subconsciously aware, or may be acutely unaware of an event. Awareness may be focused on an internal state, such as a visceral ...
