Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
September 19, 2026
Mark Edward Chard
Western eschatology often depicts the afterlife as either static contemplation or undifferentiated union with the Divine, leaving the social mechanics of disembodied interaction undertheorized. Using an autoethnographic case study anchored in a lifelong twin bond, this paper investigates post-mortem sociality through a strictly Christocentric lens. Drawing on experiential data of communication...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of space as an abiding and non-abiding matrix. Space appears to abide because it remains available throughout the emergence, stabilisation, transformation, and disappearance of phenomena. Yet it is simultaneously non-abiding: it has no permanently fixed centre, is exhausted by none of its contents, and does not possess the entities temporarily...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
preprint
The traditional comparison between biological brains and artificial systems is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in terms of individual properties. Artificial networks can exhibit recurrence, plasticity, critical or near critical dynamics, metastable behavior, high dimensional population activity, adaptive responses, and large scale connectivity. Whole brain simulations have reached...
Time and Mind
September 19, 2026
Brian A. Stewart, Peter J. Mitchell
Inspired by the insights of David Lewis-Williams, rock art research has changed significantly over the past half-century. As he has shown, interpretations of hunter-gatherer rock paintings and engravings in southern Africa depend inextricably on working back and forth between the surviving imagery and its location, on the one hand, and insights from (principally San) ethnographic data on the...
Journal of Neural Transmission
September 19, 2026
Guilherme Lodetti, Henrique Redivo, Amanda Gomes Teixeira et al.
Pharmacotherapy for depression is commonly prescribed, yet fewer than half of patients achieve remission with a single treatment. Many also experience intolerable side effects, highlighting the need for new treatment approaches. Classic psychedelics interact with the serotonin (5-HT) receptor class and are therefore strongly involved in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses such as depression,...
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry
September 18, 2026
Fatemeh Abolhasani, Hojjat Rezaiezadeh, Mohammad Amin Langarizadeh et al.
Psilocybin, a compound found in certain species of Psilocybe mushrooms, shows potential as a treatment for various psychiatric conditions. In the past decade, a growing body of evidence has shown the effectiveness of psilocybin in treating conditions, such as treatment-resistant depression, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorders. This review...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 18, 2026
Suzana Mat Isa, Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid, Muhamad Zabidi Ahmad et al.
), further studies are needed to measure its neurobiological impacts. This exploratory study employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to examine alterations in brain activity and functional connectivity (FC) among kratom users. A total of 43 respondents were recruited (22 regular kratom users and 21 healthy controls). RS-fMRI data were acquired using a 1.5T GE...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Morteza Niami
preprint
Abstract: Intensity has occupied a significant position in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly in accounts of duration, affect, difference, embodiment, becoming, and material transformation. From Bergson’s analysis of qualitative multiplicity and duration to Deleuze’s ontology of intensive difference, and from phenomenological accounts of lived affectivity to contemporary...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
September 17, 2026
Eva Jablonka, Simona Ginsburg, Zohar Z Bronfman
Seth's claim that only biological or biological-like systems can be conscious leaves open the question of what renders only some organisms conscious. We address this question by pointing to the material, ontogenetic, memory, and evaluative affordances of living organisms and arguing that evolved, minimal consciousness requires complex cognitive-affective architecture for which these biological...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
September 17, 2026
T Nakamura, Matthias Michel, Hakwan Lau
Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited in clinical and translational work under the assumption that they identify neural mechanisms specific to subjective experience. Over the past decades, recording and analysis techniques have advanced substantially...