George Deane, Jonas Mago, Aikaterini Fotopoulou et al.
7 citations
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This paper introduces the notion of adaptive narrative control, a conception of how subpersonal computational processes shape the contents of conscious experience to realize adaptive behavior. We unpack the implications of the theory for understanding the computational mechanisms underwriting psychopathology and improvements in subjective well-being associated with psychedelic therapy and...
სჯანი
November 2, 2026
Aishwarya Thapa
This article examines Johanna Sinisalo’s Finnish dystopian novel The Core of the Sun (Finnish original: Auringon ydin, 2013; English translation by Lola Rogers, 2016) through the intersecting lenses of Foucauldian biopolitics, feminist body theory, and South Asian epistemologies of inner transcendence. Set in a fictional “Eusistocratic Republic of Finland,” the novel imagines a technocratic...
Hunter Gatherer Research
November 1, 2026
Andrew S. Skinner
Theory of Mind (ToM) research often takes for granted that minds have certain basic features: that they reside primarily in brains, that cognition and sensation are functionally and architecturally distinct, and that sophisticated ToM is uniquely human. This contribution examines an alternative ToM preserved in the archival testimonies of nineteenth-century |Xam hunter-gatherers in southern...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Jewelle Mhae
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Your original contribution The Scenario Builder: A Theoretical Framework Linking Daydreaming and Dream Immersion is a conceptual hypothesis by Jewelle Ballesteros. It proposes that the brain has no true off switch: the same scenario-building system that produces spontaneous thoughts, questions, and daydreams during the day keeps running during sleep, where it combines memories, emotions,...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
October 31, 2026
Muhammed Yaseen Albakari
Perceived stress adversely impacts psychological well-being and daily functioning among adults. While secular mindfulness and traditional prayer independently serve as emotional regulation mechanisms, limited research explores their integrative efficacy. This study evaluated the effect of a 10-day mindful prayer intervention- incorporating attentional mindfulness into Islamic Namaz-on perceived...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Juan Segurola
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ENGLISH An intense experience can have profound personal meaning without, on that basis alone, demonstrating functional benefit, a causal mechanism, or generalizable efficacy. This interdisciplinary conceptual essay distinguishes three inferential transitions: from lived experience to benefit, from observed improvement to causal attribution, and from an individual case to a general rule. It...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Nityananda Das Adhikari
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Abstract: The history of Indian yogic practice is not confined to any single philosophy, tradition, or text. Although the Pātañjala Yogasūtra is a major work of Indian Yoga, systematic practices concerning ethical restraint, sense-control, meditative posture, mindfulness of breathing, concentration, meditation, samādhi, cessation, and liberating wisdom are independently attested in early...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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This is the seventh and final paper of the M⁵ Life Programme. Papers 1 to 5 specify a daily breath practice and four further practice components; Paper 6 specifies their delivery in ten two-hour meetings over five or ten weeks. Across six papers the series states some two dozen propositions, each with conditions under which it would fail. This paper specifies how they can be measured. It argues...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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Technological systems may make minds or mind-like processes copyable, branchable, pausable, restorable, mergeable, and substrate-portable. Those possibilities destabilize moral intuitions calibrated to biologically singular lives. This paper develops Terminability as a substrate-neutral framework for asking what an ending would irreversibly destroy. Its central object is not a species,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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What does it mean for two people to share an experience without possessing identical experiences? This addendum extends the contextual experiential-binding proposal from the constitution of individual qualitative episodes to capability, mind attribution, experiential access, and intersubjective participation. Its central claim is that shared experience can be modeled as a higher-order,...