Category Archives: Individual Concepts

Ineffability of Insight III

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors A Comparison of Insight and Analytic Problem Solving Protocols Note here mostly because this is when I had the thought – There is something notable … Continue reading

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Ineffability of Insight II

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors Reconceptualizing Insight Constructs Using Current Theories of Cognition  Restructuring p104: “..insight solutions may require shifting to a new problem space (Ohlsson 1984) Mechanisms: memory search … Continue reading

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Ineffability of Insight

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors Intro-Yay! p98: “If insight represents only a small portion of the full creative process, it nevertheless constitutes one of the major sources of ineffability with which discussions … Continue reading

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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

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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…      

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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

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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

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Identity Theory of Mind

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/  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

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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

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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

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