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Dennett, Nonhuman Animals, and Consciousness

PsyArXiv August 10, 2025 preprint

Dennett, Nonhuman Animals, and Consciousness

Mapping the Mind's Eye: A Graded Guide to Phosphenes and Inner Visions Integrating Neuroscience, Contemplative Practice, and Psychonautic Reports for the Yoga of Inner Light

PsyArXiv July 31, 2025 preprint

Mapping the Mind's Eye: A Graded Guide to Phosphenes and Inner Visions Integrating Neuroscience, Contemplative Practice, and Psychonautic Reports for the Yoga of Inner Light

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9a3ke_v1

Consciousness and Qualia — How Do Consciousness and Symbols Relate?

PsyArXiv July 27, 2025 preprint

Consciousness and Qualia — How Do Consciousness and Symbols Relate?

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fm48q_v1

A Litmus Test for Plant Consciousness: Pattern–Temporal Synergy in a Relation-First Ontology

PsyArXiv July 23, 2025 preprint

A Litmus Test for Plant Consciousness: Pattern–Temporal Synergy in a Relation-First Ontology

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jzrt2_v4

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training in the US: A Landscape Analysis

PsyArXiv July 10, 2025 Roman Palitsky, Caroline Peacock, Jeffrey A. Breau et al. preprint

Skilled interpersonal support and safety monitoring can enhance the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds and reduce the potential for harm. In the anticipation of legalized psychedelic care, and the recognition of ongoing psychedelic use across a variety of contexts, numerous training programs have been established to educate psychedelic facilitators in supporting individuals who take...

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ecybk_v2 Psychedelic therapy Psychedelic-assisted therapy MDMA Therapy Psilocybin therapy +19

On the Logic of Measuring Neural Correlates of Consciousness

PsyArXiv July 7, 2025 preprint

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of the logic of measuring Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCCs). Starting from the canonical definition of NCCs provided by Crick and Koch (1990) and Chalmers (2000), a series of lemmas and theorems are provided which show how NCCs can be discovered if empirical data about the co-activation of neural states and states of consciousness is...

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/p9ca3_v1

Protocol for investigating the warping of spatial experience across the blind spot to contrast predictions of the Integrated Information Theory and Predictive Processing accounts of consciousness

PsyArXiv July 5, 2025 preprint

Protocol for investigating the warping of spatial experience across the blind spot to contrast predictions of the Integrated Information Theory and Predictive Processing accounts of consciousness

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/58wbu_v2

Predictive Processing and the Epistemological Hypothesis: Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Simulating a Brain Facing It

PsyArXiv June 25, 2025 preprint

Predictive Processing and the Epistemological Hypothesis: Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Simulating a Brain Facing It

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2z97y_v3

Consciousness as a Manifestation of the Soul of the Universe

PsyArXiv June 19, 2025 preprint

Consciousness as a Manifestation of the Soul of the Universe

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rzc8j_v1 Mysticism Philosophy of mind Consciousness studies Cosmic consciousness +20

‘Equal-unblinding’ meta-analysis of psychedelic therapy vs. antidepressants for the treatment of depression

PsyArXiv June 9, 2025 3 citations preprint

Importance: Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) trials have high levels of functional unblinding. This effect positively biases results when PAT trials are compared against truly blinded trials. Objective: This pre-registered meta-analysis investigated the comparative efficacy of PAT and open-label traditional antidepressants (tAD; such as SSRIs and SNRIs) for the treatment of major depression....

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vhs4a_v1 Psychedelic therapy Psychedelic treatment Psychedelics Hallucinogen therapy +14

The Rainbow Body's Inner Cinema: Phosphenes, Ultrasubjective Hyperspace, and a Neurophenomenological Framework for Tibetan Mystical Experience

PsyArXiv June 3, 2025 Jan Marius Keppel Hesselink preprint

The Rainbow Body's Inner Cinema: Phosphenes, Ultrasubjective Hyperspace, and a Neurophenomenological Framework for Tibetan Mystical Experience

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/89tms_v1

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Self-Administered Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Stress Reduction in Adult Singaporeans: A Pilot Study

PsyArXiv May 27, 2025 preprint

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Self-Administered Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Stress Reduction in Adult Singaporeans: A Pilot Study

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/v37ac_v1

Exploring psychological and neurophysiological effects of a mindfulness-based intervention in healthy young adults.

PsyArXiv May 14, 2025 preprint

Exploring psychological and neurophysiological effects of a mindfulness-based intervention in healthy young adults.

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/afj4r_v2

Beyond Accommodation: on the Structural Turn in Computational Functionalist Theories of Consciousness

PsyArXiv April 29, 2025 preprint

Beyond Accommodation: on the Structural Turn in Computational Functionalist Theories of Consciousness

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qc5ty_v2

An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change

PsyArXiv April 16, 2025 preprint

An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jtqmu_v1

Inducing unusual bodily sensations and out-of-body experiences across the wake-sleep cycle: a high-density EEG and neurophenomenology study

PsyArXiv April 13, 2025 Teresa Campillo-Ferrer, Antonella Iadarola, Ramona Cordani et al. 1 citation preprint

Inducing unusual bodily sensations and out-of-body experiences across the wake-sleep cycle: a high-density EEG and neurophenomenology study

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pz7x4_v1

The Qualia Structure Paradigm: towards a construction of a Qualia Periodic Table for the dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness

PsyArXiv April 12, 2025 preprint

The Qualia Structure Paradigm: towards a construction of a Qualia Periodic Table for the dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/492hu_v2

Update of the Altered States Database (ASDB): 2024-12-31

PsyArXiv March 14, 2025 preprint

The Open Data initiative Altered States Database (ASDB) collects psychometric questionnaire data on the subjective experiences of pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically induced altered states of consciousness. The ASDB is updated annually and can be utilized by both researchers and non-scientists to access information or conduct further analyses. The current update adds data published in...

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wkpjc_v1