Journal of Parapsychology
December 1, 2023
A Gathering of Consciousness Explorers Celebrating half a century of Remote Viewing, OBEs and Consciousness ExplorationsThe Monroe Institute is the world leader in human consciousness exploration, offering life-changing training and audio technologies to millions around the globe.The International Remote Viewing Association is one of the few professional organizations in the world designed to...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
December 1, 2023
Thomas Andrillon, Delphine Oudiette
44 citations
Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenological, physiological. Although these dimensions often fluctuate in step, they can also dissociate. The current paradigm that views sleep as made of global NREM and REM states fail to account for these dissociations. This conundrum can be dissolved...
Preprints.org
November 28, 2023
Giovanni Stanghellini
preprint
Contemporary diagnostic practice in psychiatry relies on the tick-box approach of diagnostic manuals. In light of the obvious limitations of diagnostic systems, narrative formulations, whether in the form of biological, psychodynamic or behavioural cognitive ones, have been proposed. Their approach, which can be caricatured as one of drawing arrows, enriches our clinical tools and practice but...
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
October 31, 2023
A. Nicolò
Certain phenomena observed in a family or couple setting, which are manifestations of an individual intrapsychic world, can also be interpreted as the product of shared defence mechanisms and anxieties. In the dream reported by a family member, we can see both the intrapsychic dimension of the dreamer and the interpersonal dimension in which the dreamer participates, which is an expression of...
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
October 31, 2023
Charlotte Maschke, Jordan O'Byrne, Michele Angelo Colombo et al.
7 citations
preprint
Consciousness has been proposed to be supported by electrophysiological patterns poised at criticality, a dynamical regime which exhibits adaptive computational properties, maximally complex patterns and divergent sensitivity to perturbation. Here, we investigated dynamical properties of the resting-state electroencephalogram of healthy subjects undergoing general anesthesia with propofol,...
Nature Communications
October 27, 2023
Brandon R Munn, Eli J Müller, Vicente Medel et al.
The human brain displays a rich repertoire of states that emerge from the microscopic interactions of cortical and subcortical neurons. Difficulties inherent within large-scale simultaneous neuronal recording limit our ability to link biophysical processes at the microscale to emergent macroscopic brain states. Here we introduce a microscale biophysical network model of layer-5 pyramidal...
Problemos
October 18, 2023
Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”). Specifically, I argue that the second horn of the master argument gets wrong why zombies cannot have our epistemic situation with regard to consciousness. Zombies cannot have a kind of mental...
bioRxiv
October 16, 2023
Vicente Medel, Eli J Müller, Brandon R Munn et al.
preprint
While consciousness never fades during wakefulness, there is a paradoxical coexistence of consciousness during dreaming states. It’s also possible for sensory awareness to be either present or absent when awakened from seemingly-identical states of sedation and anaesthesia. Traditionally, these states have been characterised in terms of their electroencephalographic neural correlates, however,...
October 12, 2023
Sasho Kalajdzievski
Cardano was a polymath who practiced medicine. In mathematics, he is remembered through his publication of formulas for solving cubic and quintic equations. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of basic probability theory. We present a summary of his adventurous life. Cardano was a mystic in many ways. Since his childhood, he ‘hallucinated’ various objects and scenes. He had frequent...
Scientific Reports
October 2, 2023
David R. Samson, Alice Clerget, Noor H. Abbas et al.
2 citations
The function of dreams is a longstanding scientific research question. Simulation theories of dream function, which are based on the premise that dreams represent evolutionary past selective pressures and fitness improvement through modified states of consciousness, have yet to be tested in cross-cultural populations that include small-scale forager societies. Here, we analyze dream content...