Qualia Structure B Grant Proposal S75 76 77
PsyArXiv May 15, 2023 Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Masafumi Oizumi, Makiko Yamada preprint
This is a grant proposal for Qualia Structure B (2020-2023).
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Updating Our Theories of Perceiving: From Predictive Processing to Radical Enactivism
PsyArXiv May 3, 2023 Inês Hipólito 1 citation preprint
Radically enactive accounts of perceiving directly and diametrically oppose their representationalist rivals. This is true even of the most radical predictive processing theories of perception which embrace some enactivist assumptions yet retain some commitment to representationalism. Which framework should we prefer? This chapter seeks to make headway on this question by focusing on the...
Memorable beginnings, but forgettable endings: Intrinsic scene memorability alters our subjective experience of time
PsyArXiv April 5, 2023 Madeline Gedvila, Joan Danielle Ongchoco, Wilma Bainbridge preprint
Time is the fabric of experience — yet it is incredibly malleable in the mind of the observer: seeming to drag on, or fly right by at different moments. One of the most influential drivers of temporal distortions is attention, where heightened attention dilates subjective time. But an equally important feature of subjective experience involves not just the objects of attention, but also what...
Naturalism, Religiosity and Panpsychism: two distinct paths for William James and Carl Jung.
PsyArXiv April 4, 2023 Luiz Henrique Santana preprint
Panpsychism is an idea that considers that nature is inherently conscious, i.e., would be capable of intentional actions. This doctrine extends in philosophy and epistemology from Thales of Miletus to Max Planck. Among the panpsychists are William James and Carl Gustav Jung, two important theorists and influencers of psychology in the first decades of the twentieth century. Panpsychism was a...
Ketamine reduces the neural distinction between self- and other-produced affective touch - a double-blind placebo-controlled study
PsyArXiv March 23, 2023 preprint
A coherent sense of self is crucial for social functioning and mental health. The N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ketamine induces short-term dissociative experiences, modelling an altered state of self-perception. This randomized double-blind placebo-controlled within-subject study investigated the mechanisms for ketamine’s effects on the bodily sense of self. Participants received intravenous...
STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NON-LUCID, LUCID DREAMS AND OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE REPORTS ASSESSED BY GRAPH ANALYSIS
PsyArXiv March 14, 2023 Francisco T Gallo, Ignacio Spiousas, Nerea L Herrero et al. preprint
In this study, we examine the structural properties of dream reports that include non-lucid, lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). We collected a set of 916 dream reports (728 non-lucid dreams, 122 LDs, 68 OBEs) obtained from 60 participants that kept a dream journal for two months. The collected reports were transformed into directed graphs, where each different word plays the...
LUCID DREAMS AND OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES REPORTS: DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL CONTENT, DREAM AWARENESS, AND DREAM CONTROL
PsyArXiv March 13, 2023 Francisco T Gallo, Nerea L Herrero, Antonela Tommasel et al. preprint
Lucid dreams (LDs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are phenomena characterized by the return of higher cognitive abilities during sleep, including reflective self-awareness and abstract thought. Given the similarities in reflective self-awareness between LDs and OBEs, some authors consider them variations of the same phenomenon. This study aimed to compare the differences in content between...
Peak Experiences During Insight Mindfulness Meditation Retreats and Their Salutary and Adverse Impact: A Prospective Matched-Controlled Intervention Study
PsyArXiv March 8, 2023 Yuval Hadash, Tatyana Veksler, Omer Dar et al. preprint
Objective: We sought to address a growing debate regarding the adverse and salutary impact of unusual, extraordinary, or intense subjective experiences during meditation-based interventions. To do so, we empirically characterized such peak experiences during an intensive meditation intervention and their impact post-intervention. Method: We conducted a preregistered prospective intervention...
Examining the facets of mindful engagement and mind wandering in nature
PsyArXiv February 20, 2023 Rose Macaulay, Katherine A. Johnson, Kate Lee et al. preprint
Mindfulness and mind wandering may both enhance the psychological outcomes of nature experiences. Both states are multi-faceted, with mindfulness involving specific components such as decentering, body awareness, and nonjudgment, and mind wandering involving intentional and spontaneous mind wandering. These facets may differentially predict psychological outcomes of nature experiences, however...
Achieving hypothermia in lucid dreams and transferring it into wakefulness
PsyArXiv February 17, 2023 Andrey Shashkov, Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova preprint
Objective. Lucid dreams (LDs) are dreams in which people are aware of the unreality of the events taking place and can influence the plot. People can experience lucid dreaming either intentionally or unintentionally and can experience different emotions and perceptions that can lead to psychophysiological consequences upon waking. In this study, we investigated the possibility of achieving...
Information supporting the survival of human consciousness: an exploration of references reported in the winner essays of the Bigelow Institute of Consciousness Studies contest
PsyArXiv February 8, 2023 Patrizio Tressoldi, Marjorie Woollacott, Charles J Fox preprint
The references cited in the 29 winner essays were examined with respect to their type.Out of the non-duplicate 3679 references, 51% were books, 37% were scientific papers, 8% were scientific materials, and the remaining 4% were other materials.Among the top 10 most cited references, 7 were books and 6 were related to near-death experiences.Materials related to near-death experiences are...
Placebo without deception: Psychoactive drug intake in lucid dreaming and its effect upon awakening
PsyArXiv February 7, 2023 Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova, Andrey Shashkov et al. preprint
Objective. People experience lucid dreaming (LD) with different emotions and perceptions that can have psychophysiological consequences upon waking. To study the placebo without a deception effect, we tested how psychoactive drug intake during LDs affects perceptions in dreams and after waking.Method. Through two online experiments, we instructed volunteers to consume alcohol (N = 104) and...
Idiopathic hypersomnia symptoms in the forms of recurrent lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences: A preliminary study
PsyArXiv February 7, 2023 Michael Raduga, Zhanna Zhunusova preprint
Objective. The arousal of consciousness during REM sleep can lead to states of sleep paralysis (SP), lucid dreaming (LD), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakening (FA). We know that recurrent SP is a symptom of sleep disorders like insomnia or narcolepsy. This study hypothesizes that other recurrent phenomena related to SP could also be signs of sleep deviations like insomnia and...
Changes in EEG Entropy, Alpha Power, and Beta Power Following a VR Psychedelic Journey
PsyArXiv February 1, 2023 Sonny Mattek preprint
Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging tool that has been shown to induce experiences similar to psychedelics. In this report, we measure brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG) before and after a novel VR experience. This Inner State VR experience was designed as a drugless psychedelic journey that mimicks a microdosing experience, to create the opportunity of participating in a...
Machine Cognition, Control and Embodiment on Landscapes of Fog, Friction and Selection
PsyArXiv January 23, 2023 Rodrick Wallace preprint
Real-world cognitive structures -- embodied biological, machine or composite entities -- are inherently unstable by virtue of the 'topological information' imposed upon them by external circumstance, adversarial intent, and other persistent 'selection pressures'. Consequently, under the Data Rate Theorem, they must be constantly controlled by embedding regulators. For example, blood pressure...
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory
PsyArXiv January 9, 2023 Jorge Morales, Chaz Firestone 1 citation preprint
Perception is our primary means of accessing the external world. What is the nature of this core mental process? Although this question is at the center of scientific research on perception, it has also long been explored by philosophers, who ask fundamental questions about our capacity to perceive: Do our different senses represent the world in commensurable ways? How much of our environment...
Is my "red" your "red"?: Unsupervised alignment of qualia structures via optimal transport
PsyArXiv January 7, 2023 Genji Kawakita, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Ken Takeda et al. preprint
To what extent are sensory experiences equivalent between individuals? One promising approach to this fundamental question about consciousness is to intersubjectively compare the similarity relationships of sensory experiences, named "qualia structures". Conventional methods for comparing the similarity relationships largely sidestep the issue by assuming experiences evoked by the same stimuli...
Deep Rest: An Integrative Model of How Contemplative Practices Combat Stress and Enhance the Body’s Restorative Capacity
PsyArXiv December 20, 2022 Alexandra D Crosswell, Stefanie Eva Mayer, Lauren N Whitehurst et al. preprint
Engaging in contemplative practices like meditation, yoga, and prayer, is greatly beneficial for psychological and physical well-being. Recent research has identified some of the underlying psychological and biological pathways that explain these benefits. However, an overarching model has yet to be developed that incorporates the latest research from intervention and experimental studies with...
Unconscious social integration: seeing social interactions between two invisible people
PsyArXiv November 9, 2022 Yingtao Fu, Mei Zhou, Jifan Zhou et al. preprint
One central question in the scientific and philosophical study of consciousness is regarding the scope of human consciousness. There remains lively debate whether high-level information integration is necessarily dependent on consciousness, or it could occur beyond the scope of consciousness. The current study discovered a novel type of unconscious high-level integration based on social...
Consciousness, the Full Stack: Four-Layer Architecture = Language on Mind on STFC Part 1 of 4
PsyArXiv October 25, 2022 Karl Sipfle preprint
Consciousness research is a field beset with mystery and many conflicting theories. Each set of hypotheses and arguments in the present situationnecessitate first identifying, conveying, and digesting entire platforms of presumptions and definitions from which to reason and work forward.There has emerged no standard, useful structure for work and discourse; prevalent large theories are deeply...
Extensive Phenomenological Overlap between Training-Induced and Naturally-Occurring Synaesthetic Experiences
PsyArXiv October 7, 2022 David J. Schwartzman, Aleš Oblak, Nicolas Rothen et al. preprint
Synaesthesia is a condition defined by additional perceptual experiences, which are automatically and consistently triggered by specific inducing stimuli. The associative nature of synaesthesia has motivated attempts to induce synaesthesia by means of associative learning. Two recent studies of this kind highlighted the potential for perceptual plasticity even in adulthood, by demonstrating...
Decreased Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Following Lucid Dream Healing Workshop
PsyArXiv July 7, 2022 Garret Yount preprint
Objective: Recent investigations of lucid dreams – dreams with a veridical awareness of dreaming - suggest that this unique form of dreaming may be useful for promoting healing due to the lucid dreamer’s capacity for goal-directed action in the dream. Methods: Following a prospective, within-participant research design, 49 adults experiencing chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
The Hard Problem of Consciousness —A Perspective From Holistic Philosophy
PsyArXiv June 24, 2022 Ji-cheng Chen, Lin-lin Chen preprint
Based on a material view and reductionism, science has achieved great success. These cognitive paradigms treat the external as an objective existence and ignore internal consciousness. However, this cognitive paradigm, which we take for granted, has also led to some dilemmas related to consciousness in biology and physics. Together, these phenomena reveal the interaction and inseparable side of...
Consciousness: How Low Can You Go?
PsyArXiv June 22, 2022 Paul Linton preprint
Where is visual experience processed in the brain? Visual processing as has three broad stages. First, a low-level feed-forward stage in the visual cortex. Second, a mid-level feed-back recurrent processing stage in the visual cortex. Third, a high-level feed-forward stage to higher brain regions such as the prefrontal cortex. In their review of ‘theories of consciousness’, Seth & Bayne focus...
What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models
PsyArXiv June 18, 2022 Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin, Cedric Cannard et al. preprint
The nature of consciousness is considered one of the most perplexing and persistent mysteries in science. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within today’s neuroscience is that all aspects of consciousness arise solely from interactions among neurons in the brain. However, the origin...