Research SquareSeptember 23, 2026Leonard Imbunya Yauma
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Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence have renewed questions about whether artificial systems could eventually possess experiences that matter to their welfare, including pleasure and suffering. This paper asks what features an artificial system would need before it could reasonably become a serious candidate for phenomenal valence. It argues that behavioural sophistication,...
Abstract Self-reflection has historically depended on temporal transformations that occurred automatically as life moved on: the past receded, what returned came back altered, the vantage from which it was encountered shifted, and other people changed alongside the person reflecting. Conversational AI decouples these transformations. A person continues to change while parts of the reflective...
Research SquareSeptember 22, 2026Tiyas Abror Huda, Een Yayah Haenilah, Handoko Handoko et al.
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Abstract Research on teacher mindfulness in Indonesia remains limited despite growing calls for its integration into teacher professional development. This ex post facto study examined the effect of Teacher Mindfulness on Teacher Professionalism among 250 in-service teachers in the 2023 Teacher Professional Education Program (PPG) cohort at a public teacher-education institution in Indonesia...
Abstract Background Pregnancy is associated with extensive physiological and psychosocial changes that can increase maternal psychological vulnerability. Resilience, as a dynamic capacity for positive adaptation in the face of adversity, plays a key role in maintaining mental health during pregnancy; however, the mediating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain less understood. The...
Abstract Objectives This study investigated the mediating role of parents' beliefs about children's emotions in the relationships between facets of dispositional mindfulness and parents' responses to their children's negative emotions. Methods Data were collected via an online survey from 1223 parents of children aged 4–10 years. Data were analysed using a structural equation model in which...
Abstract Background Mindfulness and spiritual well-being are important components of nurses’ well-being and holistic nursing care. This study aimed to examine the levels of mindfulness and spiritual well-being among nurses and to explore their associations with professional characteristics. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study included 583 nurses working in adult clinical units and...
Abstract This article proposes an alternative philosophical framework for artificial intelligence (AI) and value alignment by situating technological evolution within the ontological logic of the noosphere. We argue that AI functions not as an external tool, but as the co-evolving digital substrate of a planetary superorganism. Guided by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary principle that...
Research SquareSeptember 14, 2026Victor Lima De Souza, Sávio Emmerick, Cleia Zanatta
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Abstract This theoretical essay investigates the relationship between contemporary psychological malaise and the impoverishment of the symbol, of meaning, and of the sacred. It sets out from the question of how the weakening of these three dimensions reverberates in human experience and in mental health. By means of interpretive reading and the critical articulation of classical and...
Research SquareSeptember 11, 2026Esther Nena Moszeik
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Abstract Mindfulness is predominantly operationalised in Western psychology as an attentional and acceptance-based construct, whereas classical contemplative traditions conceptualize it as a multidimensional process encompassing ethical, embodied, attentional, and spiritual development. To address this gap, the present study introduces the Mindfulness Operationalisation of Eastern Techniques...
Abstract Insomnia is prevalent in older adults and may negatively affect physical health, mood, and cognition. While anxiety is a known risk factor, reduced quality of life (QoL) may also increase risk of insomnia. Dispositional mindfulness has been shown to improve sleep, however its role in moderating the effects of anxiety and QoL in older adults remains unclear. This study examined whether...
Research SquareSeptember 10, 2026Zhang Pan (Tianyuanzi)
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Abstract The historical cycle—the wave-like recurrence of dynastic rise and fall, civilizational flourishing and decline, and social transformation—is one of the most perplexing and inescapable phenomena of human civilization. Drawing upon the concept of the Collective Consciousness Field within Yuanling Theory, this paper proposes that the historical cycle is not an incomprehensible vortex of...
Research SquareSeptember 9, 2026Bente Schei Skagøy, Henny Torheim, Elisabeth Dahlborg et al.
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Abstract Background Nursing students often experience stress, uncertainty, and emotional strain when encountering patients with severe mental illness during clinical placement. Such challenges can reduce their ability to be present and hinder learning. Mindfulness has been suggested as a potential tool to strengthen presence, emotional regulation, and learning in clinical contexts, yet...
Abstract The dominant neural architectures of modern AI are elegant, but they are not built from the same substrate as the nervous system. They manipulate real-valued voltages as if matter were continuous, capacity were unbounded, and signaling could occur without finite molecular inventory and without backward communication. This paper tells the story from voltage to ions. We trace why the...
Abstract Metabolic, inflammatory, and neurotrophic measures may provide complementary insight into biological heterogeneity underlying treatment-resistant depression and response to ketamine-based treatments. However, biomarker studies of ketamine treatment have focused on individual markers or biological domains, most commonly inflammatory or neurotrophic, while metabolic measures remain...
Research SquareSeptember 2, 2026Ying Hai, Yuantian Tong, Qinglu Xiao et al.
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Abstract Background: Mindful parenting has been recognized as an important family factor associated with adolescents’ psychological adjustment and well-being. Although previous studies have documented a positive association between mindful parenting and adolescents’ mindfulness, relatively little is known about the psychological processes underlying this association. Guided by the mindful...
Research SquareAugust 18, 2026Shenghuan Yang, Yan Lou, Tingting Chen et al.
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Abstract Background: Patients with advanced cancer frequently experience multidimensional suffering,including psychological distress,existential distress,and concerns related to death and dying.Mindfulness-based interventions and existential healing interventions have increasingly been applied in palliative care;however,the current evidence regarding their integration,intervention...
Abstract Mother Goddess Worship is one of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of 2016, which represents a distinct folk belief phenomenon of Vietnam, whereby the power of goddesses is value-added, which occurs in the cosmology, history of humanity, and community. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this article takes into account both religious anthropology and feminist theory...
Abstract Objectives. Decentering---relating to one's thoughts and emotions as passing mental events rather than being fused with them---is difficult to measure at scale. We test whether Integrated Decentering (ID), an automated measure of the decentering expressed in short reflective text, shows construct validity as one fixed scoring model. Methods. A purpose-trained language-model ensemble...
How the human brain generates subjective bodily experience remains a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. The cingulate cortex and precuneus (CC/PCu) have been implicated in bodily awareness and self-related processing, yet the functional architecture and causal relevance of these regions and the circuit mechanisms supporting conscious bodily states remain unclear. Here, we combined...
Abstract We introduce BMIM II (Biophysical Multiscale Integration Model), a dynamical framework proposing that cognitive transduction emerges from the dynamics of coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators subject to multiplicative neural gains and thermodynamic noise. The model unifies endogenous, exogenous, and executive gain channels into a single multiplicative manifold whose product determines the...
Abstract Experiences that resemble symptoms of psychosis or dissociation in clinical research do not necessarily impair daily functioning and may instead be interpreted within religious or spiritual frameworks. However, the extent to which such interpretations influence perceived life impact remains unclear. Distinguishing phenomenological experiences from their spiritual or religious...