The cover paper, A Constructive Ontology of Minded Beings, is not a fourth theoretical contribution so much as the interpretive frame for the trilogy (Paper I on minimal subject: 10.5281/zenodo.21700484, Paper II on minimal self: 10.5281/zenodo.21700773, Paper III on minimal person: 10.5281/zenodo.21700984). It explains that the project is built around three distinct ontological questions: why...
This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Neural tissue contains no single executive that inspects every available action, yet an organism can maintain alternatives, commit to one action, monitor its consequences, and alter later behavior. This paper proposes a multiscale model in which...
Any person aspiring to become a mystic cannot cut oneself off from the banalities of life and pretend to be travelling in a world toto caelo different from this experiential world. Such mysticism cannot be effective nor can it invite others because it will appear to be too ethereal. Hence the challenge for any mystic is to make the real life come into the purview of the mystical dimension and...
Although conscious connected breathwork (CCB) continues to grow in popularity as a practice used for nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and emotional well-being, little is known about how its effects and experiences may vary across the menstrual cycle. Existing research indicates that breathwork, including different conscious connected breathwork (CCB) techniques, can influence...
Accounts of consciousness routinely borrow vocabulary from physics — field, phase, coherence, superposition — and the borrowing carries an unpaid debt: a term imported from a discipline arrives with that discipline's warrant attached. This essay defends a compositional practice I call the seam, the requirement that a work mark, in its sentences, whether a given claim is formal, empirical, or...
Consciousness ignition is usually described as a whole-brain integration process after information enters the global workspace. But this paper offers a bold guess from the perspective of a limited-resource system: consciousness ignition may not just be an information-entry process, but a dynamic computational resource scheduling process. This paper argues that although the brain possesses...
Abstract: Contemporary debates between physicalism and idealism often generate more heat than light—critics charge idealism with denying science while defenders of physicalism insist emergence handles everything. This essay argues that the core disagreement is not about mechanisms, complexity, or scientific legitimacy, but about something more fundamental: where explanation is allowed to stop....
Extreme ascetic practices among the Desert Fathers and Stylites have traditionally been interpreted through theological, spiritual, and historical frameworks. Solitude, fasting, repetitive prayer, sensory deprivation, prolonged standing, and bodily exposure are commonly understood as forms of renunciation, spiritual warfare, discipline, and devotion to God. These interpretations remain...
Meditation is often studied through the states it produces: attention, calm, emotional regulation, altered perception, or measurable physiological effects. These investigations are valuable, but they do not yet tell us whether a person has become more capable of discernment, responsibility, care, or truthful action. This essay proposes a movement from the study of meditative states to an...
This article introduces a conceptual and formal framework for analysing how tempo-ral incompatibility between dynamical regimes constrains informational accessibility acrossscales. The central proposal is that systems do not merely differ in spatial scale, materialsubstrate, or causal coupling, but also in the characteristic timescales required for the re-construction of their states. I define...
Among the thousands of stamp seals recovered from the Indus (Harappan) Civilization, a small handful depart from the standard single-animal format to present dense, multi-figure narrative scenes. M-1186A from Mohenjo-daro is the most elaborate of these. In two registers it shows a horned figure standing within a pipal (sacred fig) tree, a kneeling worshipper, a large markhor goat, a human head...
A presente pesquisa, tem como propósito analisar a presença da cosmovisão indígena e a importância da utilização das plantas do poder no conto Wayramama, conto este presente na obra Cuentos Amazónicos (2007) de autoria do colombiano Juan Carlos Galeano. Para isso, busca-se estabelecer uma interlocução entre as vivências dos personagens transcritas no decorrer do estudo, e espera-se por meio da...
Contemporary neuroscience and the philosophy of mind have long operated under the implicit assumption that subjective experience—qualia—is generated exclusively by the brain. Despite remarkable progress in identifying the neural correlates of consciousness, this assumption has failed to explain why objective physical processes give rise to subjective, felt experience. We demonstrate that...
In my thesis, I attempt, on the one hand, to classify some of the main problems in the philosophy of mind (such as intentionality, the mind–body problem, qualia, and the subjective experience of the world). On the other hand, I try to formulate a hypothesis concerning the naturalistic grounding of the human cognition and intelligence. The common thread in this investigation is the question of...
This work represents the production-proof version of the article entitled "The Inner Sanctuary: A Clinical-Psychological Framework for Mystical Experience, Symbolic Healing, and Spiritual Integration" by Isabella Asel. The manuscript has completed editorial assessment and publication preparation for Current Science Georgia (ISSN 2667-9515). The publisher DOI has not yet been assigned because...
Understanding how conscious systems regulate behavior under changing internal and external conditions remains a central challenge in cognitive science. Existing theories have substantially advanced our understanding of information integration, global broadcasting, and predictive processing, yet they provide relatively limited mechanistic accounts of how previously acquired representations...
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly capable of producing convincing self-reports, strategic behavior, and apparent introspection. However, such behaviors do not by themselves provide evidence of phenomenal consciousness. This working paper introduces the Causal Artificial Consciousness Triangulation Battery (CATB), a methodological framework and benchmark proposal for assessing...
The Mother Earth archetype has received sustained attention across mythology, philosophy, depth psychology, and planetary science, yet no work has integrated these conversations around a single question: what does the maternal projection onto Earth reveal about the collective psychological architecture through which humanity relates to the planet? This paper advances the theoretical proposition...
Original philosophical essay presenting a new theoretical framework for artificial minds. This philosophical essay develops an original theoretical framework for understanding artificial minds from a processual, embodied, and non-biocentric perspective. The work argues that mentality should not be defined by biological substrate but by the organization of physically realized, causally...
Music is often treated as an atmospheric accessory in psychedelic and ketamine therapy: useful, pleasant, optional, or merely calming. Across a curated evidence base of 41 studies, reviews, mechanistic papers, clinical reports, playlist-design papers, ketamine-specific studies, ceremonial-music papers, and counterarguments, music repeatedly appears as an active session-shaping variable. The...
This study investigates the problem of subjective continuity through a comparative analysis of three complementary perspectives: the Bergsonian conception of memory as revisited by Orlander, Antonio Damasio’s neurobiological theory of the self, and a dynamic model of conscious reflexivity grounded in the interaction between memory, self-representation, and feedback processes. While Bergson...
Music is often treated as an atmospheric accessory in psychedelic and ketamine therapy: useful, pleasant, optional, or merely calming. That framing is too weak. Across a curated evidence base of 41 studies, reviews, mechanistic papers, clinical reports, playlist-design papers, ketamine-specific studies, ceremonial-music papers, and counterarguments, music repeatedly appears as an active...
Abstract Recent work proposes that functional degradation in disorders of consciousness follows a systematic pattern across three organisational levels — biological regulation, integrated experiential awareness, and recursive self-modelling — with ordered vulnerability from the highest to the lowest. Is this three-level architecture a fundamental organisational principle, or a contingent...
Microtubules are indispensable cellular structures with experimentally demonstrated routes into membrane excitability, synaptic release, and anesthetic behavior. Separate studies report electronic energy migration and collective optical effects in microtubule-related preparations. These findings make categorical dismissal of microtubule contributions to neural function increasingly difficult,...
Neural tissue contains no single executive that inspects every available action, yet an organism can maintain alternatives, commit to one action, monitor its consequences, and alter later behavior. This paper proposes a multiscale model in which learned synaptic and dendritic states make cellular transitions criterion-sensitive; excitation, inhibition, and disinhibition change time-varying...