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Maybe you presuppose that I am looking for answers to these questions, when my actual intent is to elicit your opinions. I agree that a mind cannot be...

Correct. Correct again. This is a misconception on my part. Correct a third time. I have discovered my error: psychological functions are not experien...

Affect produces moods and emotions; has dimensions of valence, arousal, and motivational intensity, and is correlated with motivational direction.

Review the RIBA Plan of Work 2013, and tell me that its required tasks are imaginary and not behaviour which can be observed. https://www.ribaplanofwo...

Then you can say that you experience intent which directs planning, informs volition, and results in action. Planning, volition and action being behav...

A need produces desire. There are desires which arise from need, and desires which do not arise from need. I agree. Also, if language developed as a m...

I agree. That is a logical dualist objection (i.e., the mind is hidden, accessible only to the person who owns it, etc.), and the subject of another c...

Inasmuch as "goal" is synonymous with "intention", it is a psychological expression of a subjective experience which can be observed by others, hence;...

Check here: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mental?s=t And here: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/stimulus?s=t And combine them.

A mental stimulus correlated with affect which leads to problem-solving, decision-making, intention, planning, volition, and action.

When there is little consensus on the meaning of terms as they are used in areas of academic study or professional practise (in this case, Psychology)...

Both. It is the psychological concept of introversion-extraversion and the primarily thoughtful nature of philosophy. Behaviour is criterial evidence ...

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It's a difficult problem, not because it's unique to this type of forum, but because (in my experience) there is only one solution: site administratio...

All replies to the OP thus far presuppose that language is derived from a communication system, whereas; Popper and Chomsky disagree. Semioticians Lot...

David Robinson suggests that differences in the natural frequencies and damping ratios of thalamocortical circuits define four neurological types whic...

As I understand it thus far, being consists of form (the genetically predisposed capacity for species-specific functions) and matter (a physical body)...

You have made a ground-breaking discovery: wombs apparently exist outside the space-time continuum. Do they exist in some sort of parallel dimension p...

This presupposes that little or no prenatal development occurs (which is obviously ridiculous, unless storks deliver babies). In fact, the tactile sen...

That would be the modus operandi: if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

I agree. Lower levels of explanation (neurophysiology in this case) always underdetermine higher levels (cognitive psychology in this case).

By empirical investigation, it is easy to establish the fact that conscious, semi-conscious, and non-conscious mind-body conditions exist: simply obse...

Inasmuch as attention has an intentional (voluntary, noticeable, controllable, conscious) aspect, and an unintentional (involuntary, unnoticeable, unc...

I agree that the unconscious is an unknown known. The remit of the scientist is to resolve empirical questions (i.e., to establish fact by means of em...

To demonstrate that you also do not explain neurophysiology, except by metaphor (which has no scientific or philosophical value). Similar to your pans...

Your desire for anonymity will be respected. Thanks for providing the title of a book which is actually sold by Amazon (presumably written by yourself...

If you've written five books on neuroscience, it shouldn't be a difficult thing to provide the requested explanation. Or just give me the titles, I'll...

I don't explain neurophysiology, but I would be interested in reading an explanation of "attention" and "habit" written in strictly neurophysiological...

Neuroscience explains neurophysiology. Neurophysiology is correlated with, but insufficient to explain, psychological functions. Consciousness is a pr...

Then maybe what you need is a worldview instead of a bag of mind tricks.

Knowledge is inert; it's accumulation does nothing. It is only the application of knowledge which can improve human life, or not. If the Idea of Progr...

History also reveals a certain degree of sociological reflexivity in the actions of societies. For example: Ancient Egyptian Kingdoms The rule of the ...

Whether or not it's debatable depends on how you define human nature (unless you had some other basis for debate in mind). I define it as genetic pred...

While time proceeds in a linear fashion, human nature has remained essentially the same across recorded history. So, given similar circumstances at pa...

That's great. Thanks very much. I will need to work on the psychology of mindfulness. Perhaps Krishnamurti and Bohm will be of assistance.

Is mindfulness then self consciousness (meta self awareness)? And by "fixing identity in thought" does it construct identity independent of social inf...

Thanks for the clarifications. It makes sense to understand the OP's "ego" as egocentricity. As such, the OP would then be an endorsement of self-deni...

Thanks for the summary. It makes sense.

What specifically don't you know about? Self Identity is composed of Personal Identity and Social Identity. 1) Personal (i.e., Relational) Identity: t...

Seriously?

I agree that there are similarities in the teachings and moral codes of the world's major book religions and systems of moral philosophy, including se...

I agree that the fabric of Western society has been weakening over the past 50 or 60 years (if not longer). But this is not a new phenomenon. Societie...

What is the difference between direct experience and indirect experience? Is reading the results of a particle accelerator experiment on a computer mo...

I agree. What the OP doesn't make clear is why the study of quantum mechanics is meaningless if it is part of the world-for-us.

I agree. So whatever is known is known not only through thought, but only through experience (the product of sensation, interoception, and thought).

What is there to think about without the ability to sense one's environment (sensation) and physiology (interoception)?

Does the world-for-us (i.e., things that human beings can experience) include those things detected and measured through the use of sense-enhancing in...

My views on self identity are influenced by the sociologists, George H Mead and Robert E Park. For example: Self identity is the distinctive combinati...

It's logic (or algebra), not leap: I=my self=a subject having unique life experiences. Therefore, if I have no experiences (produced by physiological ...

I'll take that as a "no."