Communications in Humanities Research
February 10, 2026
Wenyan Ma
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked profound philosophical and scientific debate regarding whether machines can possess genuine consciousness. While AI excels in simulating intelligent behaviors, the emergence of subjective experience—often considered as the hallmark of consciousness—remains elusive, attracting sustained interdisciplinary attention. This study...
Communications in Humanities Research
December 31, 2025
Tingting Chen
The article explores how mysticism resurges within modern, scientistic culture, especially in art. Mysticism is defined as a tradition of direct, private union with “ultimate reality,” distinct from both secret esoteric teachings and institutional religious ritual. Historically rooted in medieval Christianity and transformed by Romanticism, modern mysticism emerges as a reaction to...
Communications in Humanities Research
November 11, 2025
Rui Lao
Traditional religions have often faced decline when meeting outside forces. Their loss, however, happens in different ways. For the Ewenki people, shamanism weakened mainly because of political control and modernization. Government policies forced them to settle down and turned their sacred rituals into cultural performances. For the Sami, the decline was not caused by modernization but by...
Communications in Humanities Research
November 5, 2025
Kaile Xie
This paper explores the boundaries between dreams and reality, posing the question of whether an ontology grounded in lucid dreams is possible. It challenges the traditional distinction that perception is real while dreams are illusory, conducting a philosophical analysis through discussions of phenomenology, psychology, existentialism, and perceptual realism. It argues that both perception and...
Communications in Humanities Research
November 5, 2025
Hanwen Zhu
This paper examines the enduring metaphysical and epistemological problem of consciousness through physicalism and dualism. Physicalism, supported by extensive neuroscientific evidence, maintains that consciousness is entirely contingent upon or identical to physiological processes. Empirical findings from neuroimaging, brain injury studies, and psychoactive modulation support a systematic...
Communications in Humanities Research
June 13, 2025
Wei Gan
This video essay is an auto-ethnographic practice within psychedelic aesthetics in a 3 min film – Tangling Phantoms (2022), which explores the ‘semiotic fluidity’ of cultural identity under transnational contexts. This practice aims to express anti-essentialist cultural narratives, in which, as a Chinese student studying in the UK, the cultural symbols – Beijing opera mask and mahjong tiles –...
Communications in Humanities Research
May 30, 2025
Jinhan Zhou
A large number of studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of mindfulness- based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in the adjuvant treatment of depression, and the significant effect of MBCT in inhibiting the recurrence of depression, most of these studies are randomized controlled trials. These studies compared a group of MBCT combined with conventional treatment and conventional treatment to ensure...
Communications in Humanities Research
September 27, 2024
Yichen Liu
As the diagnosis rate of depression continues to rise, effective treatment options for this condition have become one of the most researched areas in the field. Earlier antidepressants were primarily developed based on mechanisms that involve regulating imbalanced neurotransmitters. For example, the widely known Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and various tricyclic...
Communications in Humanities Research
September 14, 2023
Xiang-Hong Wang
The discussions about qualia are mind-body problems. If artificial intelligence provides a functionally identical body, will it possess the same conscious experience? The possibility of artificial qualia, which is on the cutting edge of the development of artificial intelligence, will be the main topic of this essay. This paper argues the presupposition of the possibility of artificial qualia...