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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in constant flux , Wundt emphasized that an element , such as a sensation , was a
" mental process ” that was not ... The fact that later psychological
introspectionists tended to treat mental processes , such as sensations , images ,
and feelings ...
in constant flux , Wundt emphasized that an element , such as a sensation , was a
" mental process ” that was not ... The fact that later psychological
introspectionists tended to treat mental processes , such as sensations , images ,
and feelings ...
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They appear to offer a realistic model for how the brain processes information ,
given that neurons operate in terms of milliseconds , whereas computers operate
in terms of nanoseconds . Mental processes that involved a hundred or so steps ...
They appear to offer a realistic model for how the brain processes information ,
given that neurons operate in terms of milliseconds , whereas computers operate
in terms of nanoseconds . Mental processes that involved a hundred or so steps ...
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Cognitive processes , on the other hand , are " those processes that shape
mental representations , transforming them and ... Whereas cognitive events are
conscious , cognitive processes often operate on an automatic or unconscious
level .
Cognitive processes , on the other hand , are " those processes that shape
mental representations , transforming them and ... Whereas cognitive events are
conscious , cognitive processes often operate on an automatic or unconscious
level .
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Contents
Historical | 11 |
A Modern Return to Consciousness | 22 |
Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
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