Consciousness in flesh : an unapologetic phenomenological study / / Yochai Ataria

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910558487903321
• Autore: Ataria Yochai
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783030868345; 9783030868338
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetti: Cognitive psychology; Psicologia cognitiva; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- 1: Phenomenology of the Body -- 1.1 The Phenomenology of the Body According to Merleau-Ponty -- 1.1.1 Return to the Primary Meeting with the World -- 1.1.2 Theory of Perception is Theory of the Body -- 1.1.3 Elimination of the Subject-object Dichotomy -- 1.1.4 The Bodily Space -- 1.1.5 The Phenomenological Field -- 1.1.6 The Lived-body as a Work of Art -- 1.1.7 The Dual Structure of the Body -- 1.2 Perceiving the World through Movement -- 1.2.1 Movement and Perception -- 1.2.2 Exploring the World -- 1.2.3 Knowing How -- 1.2.4 To See the Whole World -- 1.3 Embodied Cognition -- 1.3.1 The Body as a Tool and a Technology -- 1.3.2 The World is Our Best Model -- 1.3.3 Metaphors -- 1.3.4 Opening Your Mind -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 2: The Subjective Experience During Altered States of Consciousness -- 2.1 Extended Isolation as a Prisoner of War: How It Feels -- 2.1.1 The State of Consciousness in Prison -- 2.1.2 The Sense of the Body in Captivity: Collapse of the Simultaneous Subject-Object Dual Structure -- 2.1.3 The Sense of Time in Captivity -- 2.1.3.1 The Sense of Time and the Bodily Dimension -- 2.1.3.2 The ; Creation of a New Dimension of Time Detached from the Bodily Dimension -- 2.1.4 Vacuum -- 2.1.5 What (and Why) Does the Captive Try to Control? -- 2.2 The Experience of Meditation -- 2.2.1 The Sense of Body Ownership -- 2.2.2 The Relationship Between the Sense of Boundary and Specific Senses -- 2.2.3 The Sense of Self -- 2.2.4 Dissolution of the Dual Structure (I) -- 2.2.5 Disintegration of the Dual Structure II -- 2.2.6 Inner Talk as a Process of Perception -- 2.2.7 Meaningless Stimuli -- 2.2.8 The Bodily Dimension of Thought and the Relationship to the Sense of Self -- 2.2.9 Feelings.; 2.2.10 On the Character of Memory -- 2.3 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3: Embodied Consciousness -- 3.1 The Structure of Consciousness -- 3.1.1 The Basic (Pre-Noetic) Structure -- 3.1.1.1 The Embodied Experience of Being-in-the-World -- 3.1.1.2 Emotions -- 3.1.1.3 Duration -- 3.1.1.4 The Emotional-Temporal Field (ETF) -- 3.1.2 A World of Meaningful Objects -- 3.1.2.1 Feelings -- 3.1.2.2 Past-Present-Future (Autobiographical Field) -- The Fundamental Structure of the Self-as-Subject (I) and Self-as-Object (ME) -- The Self-as-Subject in the Present Moment in Relation to the Self-as-Object on the Timeline -- The Emotional Dimension and Its Impact on the Autobiographical Field -- 3.1.2.3 Introspection -- 3.1.3 Interim Conclusion -- 3.2 The Internal Horizon -- 3.2.1 The Internal Horizon-The Main Argument -- 3.2.2 The Nature of the Experience and the Dependence on the External Horizon -- 3.2.3 Altered States of Consciousness -- 3.2.4 The Stream of Consciousness, the Emotional Dimension, the Corporal Level, and the Sense of Self -- 3.2.5 The Internal Horizon Disconnected from a Sense of Self-The Absence of the Emotional Dimension -- 3.2.6 The "Stream" in the "Stream of Consciousness" Is an Illusion -- 3.2.7 Interim Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4: Concluding Essay: The Knowing-Body and a World of Meaning -- Bibliography -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Phenomenology as a Method -- The Phenomenological Reflection -- Phenomenology as a Methodological Approach -- The Protocol -- Bibliography -- Index.