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  2. Social connection - Wikipedia

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    Social support is the help, advice, and comfort that we receive from those with whom we have stable, positive relationships. [11] Importantly, it appears to be the perception, or feeling, of being supported, rather than objective number of connections, that appears to buffer stress and affect our health and psychology most strongly.

  3. Mental state - Wikipedia

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    Unconscious mental states are also part of the mind but they lack this phenomenal dimension. Occurrent mental states are active or causally efficacious within the owner's mind while non-occurrent or standing states exist somewhere in the back of one's mind but do not currently play an active role in any mental processes.

  4. Interactionism (philosophy of mind) - Wikipedia

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    Interactionism was propounded by the French rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), and continues to be associated with him. Descartes posited that the body, being physical matter, was characterized by spatial extension but not by thought and feeling, while the mind, being a separate substance, had no spatial extension but could think and feel. [2]

  5. Damasio's theory of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The function of this 'self' is to constantly detect and record, moment by moment, the internal physical changes that affect the homeostasis of the organism. [2] Protoself does not represent a traditional sense of self; rather, it is a pre-conscious state, which provides a reference for the core self and autobiographical self to build from.

  6. Psychophysical parallelism - Wikipedia

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    And so, the mind and the body do not affect each other. However, from the perspective of epiphenomenalism, the mental states of pain would be occasioned by the physical event of the neural reaction of cutting through the skin. The mental states of pain then irritation or sadness will occur and pass one after the other.

  7. Mind–body problem - Wikipedia

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    The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body. [1] [2] It is not obvious how the concept of the mind and the concept of the body relate. For example, feelings of sadness (which are mental events) cause people to cry (which is a physical state of the body).

  8. Contact resistance - Wikipedia

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    When a conductor has spatial dimensions close to /, where is Fermi wavevector of the conducting material, Ohm's law does not hold anymore. These small devices are called quantum point contacts . Their conductance must be an integer multiple of the value 2 e 2 / h {\displaystyle 2e^{2}/h} , where e {\displaystyle e} is the elementary charge and ...

  9. Electromagnetic theories of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    In general, quantum mind theories do not treat consciousness as an electromagnetic phenomenon, with a few exceptions. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] AR Liboff has proposed that "incorporating EM field-mediated communication into models of brain function has the potential to reframe discussions surrounding consciousness".