Quantifying Consciousness: An Empirical ApproachSpringer US, 31 oct. 1991 - 422 pages This book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, test ing, and researching the use of relatively simple self-report question naires in the retrospective assessment of subjective or phenomenologi cal experience. While the simplicity of the method allows for subjective experience to be reliably and validly assessed across various short stim ulus conditions, the flexibility of the approach allows the cognitive psy chologist, consciousness researcher, and mental health professional to quantify and statistically assess the phenomenological variables associ ated with various stimulus conditions, altered-state induction tech niques, and clinical procedures. The methodology allows the cognitive psychologist and mental health professional to comprehensively quantify the structures and pat terns of subjective experience dealing with imagery, attention, affect, volitional control, internal dialogue, and so forth to determine how these phenomenological structures might covary during such stimulus conditions as free association, a sexual fantasy, creative problem solving, or a panic attack. It allows for various phenomenological pro cesses to be reported, quantified, and statistically assessed in a rather comprehensive fashion that should help shed greater understanding on the nature of mind or consciousness. |
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... meditation was summarized by Buddhaghosa and entitled the Visuddhimagga , or " the path of purification . " The Visud- dhimagga is really a recipe book for meditation and lists among other things the states of consciousness attainable ...
... meditation was summarized by Buddhaghosa and entitled the Visuddhimagga , or " the path of purification . " The Visud- dhimagga is really a recipe book for meditation and lists among other things the states of consciousness attainable ...
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... meditation , the insight method uses attention to , yet de- tachment from , the object of meditation , which may be the meditator's own stream of consciousness . A Western Enumeration of States of Consciousness The West has also come up ...
... meditation , the insight method uses attention to , yet de- tachment from , the object of meditation , which may be the meditator's own stream of consciousness . A Western Enumeration of States of Consciousness The West has also come up ...
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... meditation . Five of these six factors were replicated thrice and were fairly stable , having core items that were the same over a period of a few years . The authors concluded that the dimensions that emerged did not seem to express ...
... meditation . Five of these six factors were replicated thrice and were fairly stable , having core items that were the same over a period of a few years . The authors concluded that the dimensions that emerged did not seem to express ...
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Why an Empirical Phenomenology? | 2 |
Historical | 11 |
Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
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