The Riddle of Consciousness and the Changing Scientific WorldView
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9022209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger W Sperry |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 7-33 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00221678950352002 |
| OpenAlex | W2048657682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 48 |
Centuries-old determinist traditions of scientific materialism are currently challenged in an unprecedented outburst during the past two decades of emerging new paradigms, new worldview "visions," new approaches to consciousness and to reality, and other transformative trends including an all-time high in favor of holism over reductionism. These revisionary developments are traced to sources in the preceding cognitive revolution and its changed concepts of consciousness and causation. Anew reciprocal "two-way" mode of causal determinism, required to shift mental states into an ineliminable causal role, is a common underlying factor. This bidirectional model is upheld to be a more complete and adequate paradigm for all casual explanation and understanding, giving science a new approach to the ultimate nature and meaning of existence with a new set of answers to some of today's thorniest issues
Causation · Consciousness · Determinism · Epistemology · Holism · Materialism · Paradigm shift · Reductionism · Sociology · Transformative learning · Vision · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
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The Future of a Discipline
The psychology of self-determination
Philosophy and Scientific Realism
Holism and evolution
The Understanding of Nature
Plans and the structure of behavior.
The Self and Its Brain
Life's Irreducible Structure
A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior
Freedom to Learn
Conceptual Revolutions
On paradigm shifts
Observations on psychology's past and future
Psychology's mentalist paradigm and the religion/science tension
Plans and the Structure of Behavior
The Systems View of the World
On the nature of quantum mechanics
Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
Micro-Determinism and Concepts of Emergence
Dimensions of Mind
Motivation and the cognitive revolution
Implications for psychology of the new philosophy of science
Content and consciousness
What the mind's eye tells the mind's brain
Verbal behavior
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2014 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |