Category Archives: Individual Concepts
2 Corinthians 4 (NIV)
Treasures in Jars of Clay 1Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. … Continue reading
Of all places…
Underwater Labyrinth Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf. The underwater labyrinth at Support for Healing in SL. Gotta find ways of reaching balance in any place you can. I suppose being blue could mean that you have gills somewhere…
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/#4.6: Mind & Matter as Dual Aspects
Mental Causation
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-causation/ 3. From Substance to Property Mind-body causation is problematic for a substance dualist, but it appears to be less so for a materialist, someone who believes that the mind, if it is a substance at all, is a material … Continue reading
Identity Theory of Mind
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ Â The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Strictly speaking, it need not hold that the mind is identical to the brain. Idiomatically we do … Continue reading
Unity of Consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/#ConMusUni On the other side, there are theorists who maintain not only that conscious states in a subject are unified but that they must be unified. Bayne and Chalmers (2003, p. 24) call this the unity thesis: necessarily, any set … Continue reading
Mysticism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/#1: 1.1 The Wide Sense of Mystical Experience In the wide sense, let us say that a mystical experience is: A (purportedly) super sense-perceptual or sub sense-perceptual experience granting acquaintance of realities or states of affairs that are of … Continue reading