Quantifying Consciousness: An Empirical ApproachThis 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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... able to come up with a meaningful and quantifiable definition of the term . Although we are able to get people to estimate trance depth with scales like the North Carolina Scale ( Tart , 1963 ) and the Extended North Carolina Scale ...
... able to come up with a meaningful and quantifiable definition of the term . Although we are able to get people to estimate trance depth with scales like the North Carolina Scale ( Tart , 1963 ) and the Extended North Carolina Scale ...
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... able to specifically quantify both psychophysiological and phenomenological data , researchers will hopefully be better able to determine how subjective experience is re- lated to EEG data from the various areas of the cerebral cortex ...
... able to specifically quantify both psychophysiological and phenomenological data , researchers will hopefully be better able to determine how subjective experience is re- lated to EEG data from the various areas of the cerebral cortex ...
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... able to focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others . 22. I was able to easily and completely focus my mind on a single impression or event for as long as I wanted . 34. My attention was not focused on a single subjective event ...
... able to focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others . 22. I was able to easily and completely focus my mind on a single impression or event for as long as I wanted . 34. My attention was not focused on a single subjective event ...
Contents
Why an Empirical Phenomenology? | 2 |
Historical | 11 |
Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
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