Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
preprint
Theories of consciousness seek to explain what makes a system conscious, but they do not necessarily explain what makes a later conscious system the same subject as an earlier one. This article identifies this distinction as the Subjective Continuity Problem and examines its implications for consciousness science and artificial minds. I assess five influential approaches—global neuronal...
Communications Psychology
October 11, 2026
Peter Coppola, Pilleriin Sikka, Katja Valli et al.
Abstract The language people use to describe their inner experiences arising during sleep and wakefulness provides a window into the mind. Dreams and unguided waking thought, here referred to as mind wandering, are thought to reflect unique individual differences and mental health. Here we use graph theory to analyse a large dataset of dream (n = 1434) and mind wandering (n = 1619) reports from...
Entropy
October 10, 2026
Avel Guénin--Carlut
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) offers a physically grounded account of intentional properties in mind and life, framed in the context of Dynamical Systems Theory. Because of this generality, it was proposed as a formal basis to formalize the study of biological autonomy, autopoiesis, and enactive cognition. Yet, those approaches are centered by definition on describing how biological and...
Journal of the Foundations of Ophthalmology
October 10, 2026
Anes Harid
Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is one of the clearest examples of why the eye and the mind cannot be treated as separate systems. It describes recurrent visual hallucinations in people with visual impairment, usually with preserved insight and without hallucinations in other sensory modalities, dementia or primary psychosis. The hallucinations may be simple shapes, colours or patterns, or...
Church History
October 10, 2026
Lucas P. Depierre
Abstract Teresa de Cartagena (ca. 1425 – after 1478) was a disabled nun who faced a tripartite predicament as an author: deafness, gender, and her lineage within a Jewish convert family in medieval Spain. Regrettably, scholarship has tended to encapsulate her in a three-walled box (literature, affectivity, mysticism) in which medieval women’s spiritual writings in the vernacular are siloed....
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology
October 10, 2026
Mohammad Ebrahimi
The prevailing neurological orthodoxy equates the mind with neuronal activation. While empirically grounded, this reductionist paradigm fails to account for subjective experience, altered states of consciousness, and the profound influence of the body on cognition. This opinion challenges the neurocentric assumption and proposes a radical redefinition: The mind is an emergent, dynamic,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 10, 2026
Syed Muntasir Mamun
preprint
K SC This anatomical review examines Valerio Capraro's (2026) conceptualisation of LLMorphism—the biased belief that human cognition operates analogously to large language models (LLMs)—as introduced in arXiv:2605.05419. The paper is dissected sectionally: from its diagnosis of reverse inference arising from conversational fluency, through mechanisms of analogical transfer and metaphorical...
Philosophies
October 9, 2026
Rein Raud
Contemporary psychiatry no longer views a large number of people who diverge from the “neurotypical” paradigm as patients who need to be “cured”, but simply as otherwise fully functional people with certain idiosyncrasies, and even the currently applicable label “disorder” has been challenged in the literature. The questions that need to be asked by philosophy of mind are thus not the classical...
PsyArXiv
October 9, 2026
Oleksandr Avramchuk, Olha Germanovych, Olha Ivanenko et al.
preprint
Background: Children living in conflict zones experience high levels of psychological distress. Schools can provide an accessible setting for support, yet evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in active war contexts remains limited. Objectives: To evaluate children’s well-being and internal coping resources during the war in Ukraine and to examine the feasibility of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Ammanuel Santa Anna
preprint
Chapter from Dance Psychology: Movement as Mind by Santa Anna, Ammanuel, published under The Luminous Library (Luminous Prosperity Inc.). Released as part of Operation Free Books For All — offered openly to establish and connect the field of dance psychology to its adjacent academic literatures.