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Self, selfhood and understanding - infed.org infed.org 2 facts
claimThinking is defined as an inner conversation formed by the internalization of communicative processes from society, with its dialogical structure creating what is termed 'mind'.
quoteIf you ask, then, where directly in your own experience the ‘I’ comes in, the answer is that it comes in as a historical figure. It is what you were a second ago that is the ‘I’ of the historical figure. In other words, the ‘I’ is the process of thinking.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimThere is empirical evidence demonstrating a correlation between subjective human experience and physical processes within the nervous system, including identifying active brain areas during activities like seeing, listening, speaking, thinking, and sleeping.
claimDavid Chalmers (2010) defines experience as the subjective aspect of consciousness that exists alongside the information processing occurring during thinking and perception.
Why AI Made Consciousness Obsolete medium.com 2 months ago 1 fact
claimThe book 'Why AI Made Consciousness Obsolete' argues that consciousness has become explanatorily obsolete as an explanation for how thinking works, while maintaining that it still exists as a phenomenon.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceA. T. Beck published the article 'Thinking and depression: II. Theory and therapy' in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 1964.
How Lack of Sleep Impacts Cognitive Performance and Focus sleepfoundation.org Jul 29, 2025 1 fact
claimWithout adequate sleep, neurons in the brain become overworked and less capable of optimal performance in various types of thinking because they lack time to recuperate.
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Aug 24, 2023 1 fact
perspectiveJakob Hohwy, a philosopher at Monash University, argues that adversarial collaborations are a valuable method for advancing the field of consciousness studies, which remains divided over fundamental definitions and whether consciousness is closer to thinking or feeling.
How Sleep Works: Understanding the Science of Sleep sleepfoundation.org Jul 8, 2025 1 fact
claimIn adults, a lack of sleep is associated with negative health consequences including cardiovascular problems, a weakened immune system, higher risk of obesity and type II diabetes, impaired thinking and memory, and mental health problems like depression and anxiety.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimRené Descartes was a substance dualist who believed in two distinct kinds of substance: matter, which is defined by spatial extension, and mind, which is defined by the property of thinking.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceThe chapter 'The function of weak phantasy in perception and thinking' was published in the 'Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science' in 2010, edited by Gallagher, S. and Schmicking, D.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceRobert Morrison contributed to 'The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning', published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceDijksterhuis and Strick (2016) argue for the existence and utility of thinking without consciousness.