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The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology, and as spiritual neuroscience, [1] attempts to explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms. [2] It is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena.
The official journal of the society is the open-access journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. [1] The association published the open-access journal Psyche until 2010. The association provides a freely available e-print archive of papers relevant to the study of consciousness. The society also publishes occasional edited books on selected topics.
Models of consciousness are used to illustrate and aid in understanding and explaining distinctive aspects of consciousness. Sometimes the models are labeled theories of consciousness . Anil Seth defines such models as those that relate brain phenomena such as fast irregular electrical activity and widespread brain activation to properties of ...
Given the absence of any accepted criterion of the minimal neuronal correlates necessary for consciousness, the distinction between a persistently vegetative patient who shows regular sleep-wave transitions and may be able to move or smile, and a minimally conscious patient who can communicate (on occasion) in a meaningful manner (for instance ...
The podcast focuses on a wide array of topics related to science and spirituality, including philosophy, religion, morality, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics and artificial intelligence. Harris has interviewed a wide range of guests, including scientists, philosophers, spiritual teachers, and authors.
Most of Persinger's published articles involved with consciousness have focused on the persistence of experiences reported by individuals who display complex partial epilepsy within the normal population of people who are creative, subject to frequent paranormal experiences, or who have sustained a mild impact of mechanical energy to the cerebrum.
Walach has conducted studies examining elements of complementary and alternative medicine, [11] [4] and developed the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory. [12] He was an editor of an essay series on Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality, [13] and until 2021 was editor-in-chief of the Karger journal Forschende Komplementärmedizin.
When he invited the Dalai Lama to participate in the "Neuroscience and Society" program of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2005, over 500 researchers signed a petition in protest. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Some of the petitioners were Chinese researchers, who may disagree politically with the Dalai Lama's stance on Tibet. [ 17 ]