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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... consciousness and thought is always changing and never the same . As with Heraclitus's stream , one cannot step into the stream of thought twice , for each moment it changes and varies . Sim- ilarly , like a stream or river , the stream ...
... consciousness and thought is always changing and never the same . As with Heraclitus's stream , one cannot step into the stream of thought twice , for each moment it changes and varies . Sim- ilarly , like a stream or river , the stream ...
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... stream of thought . One of the two major contemporary perspectives for understanding phenomenological con- sciousness consists of tapping and assessing one's ongoing stream of thought . THE NATURE OF THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS ...
... stream of thought . One of the two major contemporary perspectives for understanding phenomenological con- sciousness consists of tapping and assessing one's ongoing stream of thought . THE NATURE OF THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS ...
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... stream of con- sciousness . In a different but related type of study ( Pope , 1978 ) , the effects of gender , solitude , and posture upon the stream of consciousness were assessed . Subjects reported on their stream of consciousness by ...
... stream of con- sciousness . In a different but related type of study ( Pope , 1978 ) , the effects of gender , solitude , and posture upon the stream of consciousness were assessed . Subjects reported on their stream of consciousness by ...
Contents
Why an Empirical Phenomenology? | 2 |
Historical | 11 |
Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
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