John C. Eccles’s scientific contributions

... 3. This perspective echoes Popper's (Popper & Eccles, 1977/1985 theory of Three Worlds, ...

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Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow

... At this point, one might still be tempted to think in terms of, for example, Popper's notion of three separate worlds consisting of physical objects and states, states of consciousness, and knowledge in the objective sense (e.g., Popper and Eccles 1977;Popper 1978; De Vries 2009), or simply a standard matter-mind dualism. However, the point here is that full naturalism forbids such fundamental multiplicities and requires the integration of subjective phenomena and their products as parts of the natural world, in this way imposing additional constraints on naturalism itself. ...

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Full Naturalism: The Objectivity of Subjective Points of View

... Quantum physics governs the behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales and has changed our knowledge of the physical universe ( Figure 2). [12][13][14] The limitations of classical physics in explaining the brain's creative and intentional behaviors have prompted researchers to explore quantum mechanics for solutions. Quantum mechanics, through its capacity to elucidate phenomena such as uncertainty and interconnectedness, may offer insights into the brain's functioning that transcend conventional deterministic models. ...

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Exploring Consciousness: Photon Entanglement and Neural Communication

... John Eccles and Sigmund Freud explained the neuro-physiological basis of memory in detail. It was suggested that the latent memory traces or saṃskāra can be associated with enlarged dendritic spines and the Yogic notion of habit patterns or vāsanā is parallel with the modern idea of enhanced growth at the synaptic spines (Popper & Eccles, 1977). Also, Carl Jung believed in the presence of psychobiological memory of one's ancestral past alike saṃskāra in one's unconscious mind (Jung & Hull, 1960). ...

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Psychological Suffering & its Alleviation in the Context of Karma and Karma Yoga

... If, say, more than one factor is responsible for some effect, it is important that we do not pre-empt the scientific judgement: there is always the danger that we might refuse to admit any other ideas than the ones we happen to have at hand… Sir Karl Popper [9]. ...

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Epidemiological Principles in Claims of Causality: An Enquiry into Repetitive Head Impacts (RHI) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

... v. Virtual aspectinvolves the use of computers to access knowledge. [31] stated that computer simulations could enable a person or group of people to have a virtual experience. ...

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Exploring University Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism: A Focus Group Study

... Psychoanalysis and subsequent trends were influenced to a great extent by transactionist dualism. It presumes mental and physical worlds as separate ontological entities, which interact in some more or less sophisticated manner, on either the level of brain structure and functions or on the level of quantum mechanics (Popper and Eccles 1977;Georgiev 2011). ...

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Psychiatric Nosology Revisited: At the Crossroads of Psychology and Medicine

... Effective cooperation, and communication in particular, are based on the parties having a shared context or world model [53] (as theologians say: "text without context is pretext"). Popper proposed an ontology of Three Worlds [128,129] that is somewhat controversial, but which finds application in Computer Science [156], and is useful for our purpose: World 1 comprises objects and properties of the physical universe such as those addressed by scientific theories (e.g., planets, mass, motion); World 2 is mental states and processes, or what I (and you) are thinking about; and World 3 is the "products of thought" such as tables and chairs 19 and the UK Highway (driving) Code. Human communication relies on shared models for a selection of these that are relevant to the current conversation. ...

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Assurance of AI Systems From a Dependability Perspective

... This model challenges the classical neurocentric paradigm, suggesting that the brain is a transducer for higher-order informational structures rather than the sole origin of cognition. The classical materialist perspectives posit that cognition arises exclusively from synaptic interactions and electrochemical processes (Buccella et al., 2024;Eccles & Popper, 2014). Instead, recent advancements in quantum cognition and quantum biology suggest that the brain operates within a broader informational matrix, where its activities are embedded in a network of entangled, non-local interactions that transcend classical physics (Hameroff & Penrose, 2014;Meijer, 2014). ...

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BRIDGING EAST AND WEST: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEIM'S 12 MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE THROUGH THE LENS OF DAO AND BUDDHISM ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND REALITY

... "Quine puts the matter in a nutshell by saying: 'The bodily states exist anyway; why add the others?' Interestingly, very [48] . ...

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Open Peer Review on Qeios On the Hard Problem: Revisited, Re-Evaluated, Recast