Regressed birth and prenatal “memories” are common in psychotherapies using altered states of consciousness. However, they have often been dismissed due to their questionable veracity, as many are beyond the scope of what is considered scientifically possible. Despite their uncertain status, these accounts may have important implications for pregnancy and birth practices, psychotherapy, and...
Here I present a theory of fictionalism about group consciousness. The theory is developed in response to group consciousness being an entailment of functionalism and materialism coupled with a group mind hypothesis. I first sketch existing approaches to group consciousness. Deflationary summativists argue that groups have consciousness insofar as individual group members instantiate...