Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Psychological Dimensions of Consciousness

This report delves into the concept of consciousness from a psychological perspective, examining its definition as individual awareness of thoughts, memories, sensations, and feelings. It explores theories such as Cartesian dualism and discusses the challenges in understanding the mind-body relationship, particularly in the context of mental health and neurological disorders. The report also touches on altered states of consciousness, the role of introspection in studying consciousness, and modern theories like integrated information theory and global workspace theory. The cross-cultural perspective is addressed by highlighting the varying interpretations and experiences of consciousness across different cultures. The document concludes by emphasizing the ongoing research and debate surrounding the nature of consciousness and its implications for understanding the human mind.

Consciousness in a
Psychological aspect

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The consciousness is defined as the individual awareness of the unique thought, memories,
sensation and the feeling. Moreover, the consciousness is also referring as the awareness of
individual who used to take the support within the world around the globe. In addition to this, the
awareness is defined as the subjective part and they have unique for the individual. It is also
elaborated that the something which is used to experience in the words have the potential which
is well fraction with experiencing towards the mind and thought. Overall, the consciousness in
the term of psychology to raise some of the awareness which is associated with the feelings and
memories. In this report, the major discussion is based on the consciousness which is address the
cross-cultural perspective and the methodological issue which is usually take the concept and the
research which is related with the topic of consciousness (Burson and et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
In the term of consciousness in the psychological perspective, there are some of the theories
which is well associated with the consciousness which play vital role in the development of
cross-cultural perspective. In the standpoint of philosophy, the Cartesian self-develop a concept
by Rene Descartes within the mind body dualism is the main term which is provided for an
individual mind or for the human being which is associated with the both these being which is
helpful to make the contrast with the associated meaning the Descartes. In the common language,
the view of mind is just a reflection of though which is separate from the body as well as the
outside of the world. In the simple word, the mind is also used to show the capabilities that is
useful to think about itself and show their own existence. According to the vision of philosopher
Rene Descartes, there are divide which is intrinsic to the consciousness such as on individual
which is based on the self is the only thing which may help to know in order to made the thing
recent that is not capable of knowing the factor which is based on the other mind that able to
think. The Cartesian self a term coined in retrospect to Descartes actual into the mind body
dualism and is never actually used by him in his own writing (Cadenas and et. al., 2018).
The French philosopher Rene Descartes usually argue that the nature of the mind and the
body is differing from one another. The major issue and question which is arise from this is
based on the mind body and dualism theory. In this, they used to focus on the tow structure
which is based on the several natures which is casually help to interact to enhance the human
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being with the voluntary bodily motion and the justified sensation. Moreover, the Cartesian view
is usually helpful to introduce with the issue of incommunicability. It is difficult to solve in
psychiatry and in the field of psychology. Mental health issue has either physical and psychic
root. In addition to this, the psychosomatics as well as the bio-psycho social model in psychiatry
used to focus on the settle this dual approach. Therefore, the close relationship between the body
and mind is useful aspect which help to deliver the review and issue with the fitted example of
coronary heart disease diabetes, oncology and various psychosomatic disease (Giegerich and et.
al., 2020).
Descartes also rise some of the question that is related with the consciousness and argue
that they cannot deny the existence of the mind while using the mind or used to deny it.
Consciousness is visible to close death experience or out of the body experience that occur when
the brain does not work in the appropriate way that is associated with the function of the body.
These experiences are usually helpful to challenge the current model of mind body interaction. It
may also help to improve the knowledge of consciousness and their relationship which is
associated with the function of brain. Near death or the out of body experience is usually
associated with the respectively 9 percent and the 2 percent of the cardiac arrest with the
successful resuscitation. With this, the potential and long term adverse psychosocial outcome is
usually discussed and elaborated in the issue (Gordon and et. al., 2018).
For the number of years, the function of the brain is usually based on the psychiatric
disorder is usually poor understanding and difficult in order to treat, and thus this disorder is used
to called as functional. They had no any type of organic root which is associated with the defied
neurological interpretation. This is completely perpetuated the Cartesian dualism. In addition to
this, the split between the neurology and the psychiatry occurs within the psychoanalysis that is
took place within the Europe and in USA during the 20 centuries. Moreover, the psychiatry gets
separated from the other medical specialities (Ibrahim and et. al., 2021). The isolation or the
withdrawal which is based on the serious damaged psychiatry and they cause the most important
recruitment and the funding which may regulate issue with the diminished value that is related
with diagnosis. Therefore, the reduce psychiatry to the nonspecific psychological support require
the contribution toward the stigma. The recent form of the neuroscience is used to focus on the
nonspecific psychological approach that may contribute to enhance the rate of stigma. Moreover,
the recent advance in the neuroscience is usually helpful to make it more difficult in order to
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draw the line which is associated between the neurological disorder which is considered as the
structural brain disorder (Suffla and et. al., 2021).
Consciousness is defined as the term which is used to elaborate the condition which is based
on the awareness of the physical and mental experience. In addition to this, it has been already
realised that there is no any form, of the awareness are the same. Moreover, there are various of
different state that is based on the human consciousness as well as the variety of factor that is
responsible for the impact which is based on the state of awareness. In addition to this, the
human consciousness is most often compared with the stream which is changing but they are
always flowing the smooth ways. The human consciousness is often compared with the aspect of
stream which is constantly changing, but they used to focus on the flow that is conducted on the
smooth way. Moreover, there are various of moment which is helpful and making the aspect for
the next moment that help to find the individual thinking about the article that is based on the
reading which is based on the childhood pet. Moreover, there are two common awareness which
is exist in this that include conscious and unconscious. Therefore, the unconscious used to
indicate various factor that is lack of awareness, consciousness itself that present with the
different factor which is varying the level of awareness. This is often referred as the person state
which is based on the consciousness. In addition to this, the human consciousness is usually
altered the number of several ways which majorly include through the process of hypnosis, with
the drug and the exercise which is based on the mental exercise. Moreover, they are reaching in
such state which is alter the state of consciousness that can also be achieved through the various
process that is based on the type of meditation and mind body practice (Thorpe and et. al., 2021).
There is different level of awareness which is help to provide the person state of
consciousness which is interconnected with the level of awareness. While taking the contrast of
an example, if someone is in their half sleep or in the state of drowsy state than they are typically
experience a low level of awareness. In the form of conversion, they used to expose in the form
of stimulant, the person who used to experience a heightened level of awareness. In this, the low
awareness majorly restricts the person psychology to aware of every single detail of the is
happening around. Even in some of the state of the consciousness where the people used to face
the level of awareness which is based on the brain that is still capable in order to make the
process towards the signal which is received.
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While taking the aspect of thousands of years with consciousness, the study is based on the
human consciousness which is largely related towards the work which is associated with the
philosophies. The philosopher is used to introduced the concept which is mind body dualism or
the idea which is associated with the mind and the body which is different and they do interact.
Moreover, the psychology was well established that is based on the discipline separate from the
set of philosophy and set of biology that show the study which is based on the conscious
experience that became one of the first topic which is studied that is related with the psychologist
(Cherdymova and et. al., 2018).
There is structuralist who used to process which is also known as the introspection which
help to analyse and make the report that is based on the conscious sensation, that have thought
and experience. In addition to this, they have trained towards the observer that would carefully
make the inspection which is based o the content of their mind which is in the form of reflection.
Therefore, this was very subjective that made the process which is help to inspire the further
research on the scientific study which is based on the consciousness.
In this, the American psychologist which is used to William James that is taking the
comparison with consciousness to the stream which is unbroken and make the continuous despite
constant shift and the regular changes. The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud usually concentrate on
the clear understanding towards the factor of psychology which is related with the importance of
unconscious and conscious mind. While focusing the factor which is best suitable with the
research that is based on the psychology which is associate with the 20 centuries, where the
research on the human consciousness has usually grown tremendously that prefer from the 1950s
(Dietrich and et. al., 2018).
There are various of theories which is associated with the consciousness that is associated
with the lack of the issue which is universally accepted towards the operational definition.
Moreover, the Descartes that used to propose the idea of the cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore
I am) it has been suggested that they take the reality of the ones experience and they are focus on
the awareness. While, there are some of the generally defined as the awareness of individual and
the world. In addition to this, they are focus on the various aspect that is based on the awareness.
In this, the integrated information at consciousness by the learning more about the physical
process that underline which have set of experience. The theory used to attempt that they help to
create measure of the integrated information that they have form of consciousness. There is
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various independent quality that is represented by the level of integration (Usher and et. al.,
2021).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is analysed that the consciousness in the psychology used to
deliver the quality of awareness within the context of memories, feeling and many more. In
addition to this, there are various factor which is based on the consciousness that show various
theories, concept and many more. The consciousness used to conduct various research which is
focused on the understanding the neuroscience behind the experience. The modern researcher has
the propose two major theories of conscious that mainly include integrated information theory
and global workspace theory.
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REFERENCES
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Thorpe and et. al., 2021. Correlates of Sexual Self-Consciousness Among Black
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Cherdymova and et. al., 2018. Photo exhibition influence on student environmental
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