Daydreaming / piloto automático

Leonard M. Giambra
Jerome L. Singer
David Chalmers
Franz Brentano
Eric Klinger
Charles Schreiber
Jonathan Schooler

The Case for Doing Nothing



Expanding Levels of The Consciousness:

• Non-conscious -
----- • Information that is entirely outside of awareness.

• Experience -
----- • The contents of consciousness.  Is the on going continuously changing state of mind that an individual apprehends through out his/her waking day. Experience is defined by change, and change requires a flow of time.

• Meta-awareness -
----- • Ones explicit understanding of their conscious experience. Mental departures from the here in now in which individuals attention is directed away from the task at hand (while driving, reading, dancing...)
------------ • The basis of introspection and self-reports

----- • Often neglects or misrepresent experience. 

AND... indeed, mindfulness seems to be the opposite of mind wandering (aos 48min)

AND... There is a correlation between mind wandering and creative performance (aos 1:00:00 min)

"Certainly cognitve psychology has suffered from this problem of third person perspective. [...] And there are, likely, situations where psychology continues to make the error of excessively relying on self reports that are not necessarily valid."

– Mind wandering and multi-tasking

Ciência e Budismo

"The greatest impediment to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin

The no man's land of consciousness

Look inside

When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them.
Alfred North Whitehead