Social Science Research Network
2025
Denys Spirin
preprint
This work presents a innovative ontological framework centered on the primacy of differentiation, offering a profound rethinking of being, consciousness, and relationality. Drawing from philosophy, science, religion, and technology, the author articulates a layered model of reflexive differentiation (R0–R7), which charts the emergence of complexity—from biological individuation to ethical...
Social Science Research Network
2024
J. Horne
preprint
Scholars have wrestled with "consciousness", one writer calling it the "hard problem". Some thirty-plus years after the Towards a Science of Consciousness, we do not seem to be any closer to an answer to "What is consciousness?". Seemingly irresolvable metaphysical problems are addressed by bootstrapping, provisional assumptions, not unlike those used by logicians and mathematicians. I...
Social Science Research Network
August 25, 2021
Greg F. Ferenstein
preprint
Abstract: Field observations of underground, illicit, and private ceremonial substance use has been central to ongoing research in psychedelics-assisted therapy. This paper explores a novel use of MDA in a ceremonial virtual environment. Participant interviews and field notes are used to explore the reported therapeutic effects of this understudied entactogen. Users report therapeutic effects...
Social Science Research Network
January 6, 2021
M. Taheri, Sara Torabi, Noushin Nabavi et al.
preprint
In another study titled “Influence of Faradarmani Consciousness Field (CF) on Spatial Memory and Passive Avoidance Behavior of Scopolamine Model of Alzheimer Disease in Male Wistar Rats,” (Authors: Mohammad Ali Taheri, Sara Torabi, Noushin Nabavi, Farid Semsarha), we evaluated the influence of Faradarmani CF on scopolamine-induced memory impairments in male Wistar rats. The passive avoidance...
Social Science Research Network
July 3, 2018
S. K. Ariyasinghe
preprint
Current world is suffering in many type of issues in different extends. But there is one common reason for all issues, which s lack of spiritual development of the society. Therefore people don’t satisfied with their needs and always follow the desires and making their decisions in unconscious way. This study is about utilization of meditation as a tool for the world without concerning any...