Rudn Journal of Philosophy
2022
In the existing philosophical interpretations of mystical experience (constructivism, essentialism, etc.), its essence is usually seen in the features of "mystical knowledge". At the same time, the value-semantic foundations of mystical experience and its existential aspect remain in the shadows. In this article, the mystical experience is analyzed from the standpoint of the theories of the...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2022
Frederick J. Heide, Tai Chang, Natalie Porter et al.
Like many mind-altering plants, cannabis has been part of spiritual practices for thousands of years. It has deep roots in Hinduism, Islam, Rastafarianism, and indigenous traditions in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. Yet almost no attention has been given to how contemporary adults employ it spiritually. A sample of 1087 participants (mean age = 38.9) completed an online survey assessing their use...
Consciousness and Cognition
2022
Amber R Hopkins, Kelvin J. McQueen
Perceptual filling-in for vision is the insertion of visual properties (e.g., color, contour, luminance, or motion) into one's visual field, when those properties have no corresponding retinal input. This paper introduces and provides preliminary empirical support for filled/non-filled pairs, pairs of images that appear identical, yet differ by amount of filling-in. It is argued that such image...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2022
Daniel Revach, Moti Salti
Our ability to understand the mind and its relation to the body is highly dependent on the way we define consciousness and the lens through which we study it. We argue that looking at conscious experience from an information-theory perspective can help obtain a unified and parsimonious account of the mind. Today's dominant models consider consciousness to be a specialized function of the brain...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2022
Günter Ehret, Raymond Romand
Awareness or consciousness in the context of stimulus perception can directly be assessed in well controlled test situations with humans via the persons' reports about their subjective experiences with the stimuli. Since we have no direct access to subjective experiences in animals, their possible awareness or consciousness in stimulus perception tasks has often been inferred from behavior and...
Chelovek
2022
Viacheslav M. Naidysh
From the standpoint of the theory of activity, the value-semantic foundations of mystical experience are analyzed. It is shown that such grounds are ultimately determined by the need-motivational sphere of consciousness, which, on the one hand, carries the activity, energy of the subject, and, on the other, gives meaning to the activity of the subject, performs a regulatory function. This...
Journal of Neurological Sciences
2022
Subha Subramanian, S. Haroutounian, Ben J Palanca et al.
58 citations
Ketamine is an anesthetic drug which is now used to treat chronic pain conditions and psychiatric disorders, especially depression. It is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist with additional effects on α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors, hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels, opioid receptors, and monoaminergic...
HPHR Journal
2022
Candice Carpenter
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in just 2014 alone, over 17 million persons ages 12 or older reported at least a singular lifetime use of the hallucinogenic stimulant, and well-known recreational drug, MDMA, or 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Compared to 10 years prior, this was an increase from 11 million people within the same age bracket.21Per the European Centre...
European Journal of Social Sciences
2022
Stanley Tweyman
Abstract In my paper, I show that there are two truths in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy that do not require the divine guarantee, despite Descartes’ claim in the last sentence of the fourth paragraph in the third meditation that he cannot be certain of anything unless he knows that God exists as Descartes’ creator and that God is not a deceiver.
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Jonathan Led Larsen, Katrine Schepelern Johansen, Mimi Yung Mehlsen
7 citations
The recommended treatment for dual diagnosis - the co-occurrence of substance use and another mental disorder - requires seamless integration of the involved disciplines and services. However, no integrative framework exists for communicating about dual diagnosis cases across disciplinary or sectoral boundaries. We examine if Enactive Psychiatry may bridge this theoretical gap. We evaluate the...