The biology of mind: Origins and structures of mind, brain & consciousness
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Machine consciousness, behaviorist epistemology, and the economics of replacing human roles
Journal of Economic Epistemology and Philosophy September 10, 2026 Siti Hurul Aini
Whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be conscious is usually treated as a question for philosophers of mind, and the replacement of human labor by AI as a question for economists. This article argues that the two questions are entangled and that their separation is an artifact of the epistemology of modern economics. In a documented corpus of 100 Scopus-indexed records on AI, labor, and...
5. Von der Identität der Gegensätze
Kultur und soziale Praxis September 10, 2026 Volker Gottowik
Von der Identität der GegensätzeKörpererfahrungen im Kontext islamischer Heiligenverehrung auf Java Die religiöse Praxis geht mit der Vermittlung außergewöhnlicher Körpererfahrungen einher.Bei Buchreligionen treten diese Erfahrungen in eine aufschlussreiche Beziehung zur Botschaft der geoffenbarten Schrift; bei Religionen, die den Fokus auf die rituelle Praxis legen, sind sie Medium und...
Stress reduction based on awareness for women affected by disasters: a randomized controlled trial
Psychology, Health & Medicine September 10, 2026 Leyla Sezgi̇n, Arzu Karakaya, Aycan Şahi̇n et al.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on mindful awareness and perceived stress levels in women affected by disasters. The study was a parallel-group, superiority pretest–posttest randomized controlled trial involving women aged 18–65 who were affected by the 6 February 2023, earthquakes in Türkiye and temporarily living in...
Psychoactives and Psychedelics in Yoga: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Culture
Journal of Contemplative Studies September 10, 2026 Stuart Sarbacker
In this paper, I examine the relationship between the mind-body disciplines of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain systems of yoga, focusing on the use of psychoactive substances in the Indic religious context and the ways that modern cosmopolitan forms of yoga have been intersected with the use of psychedelic substances.The foundation of the study is a comparative examination of the semantic field of...
Does the MEM Model Explain the "Hard Problem" of Phenomenal Consciousness?
Qeios September 10, 2026 Wiesław L Galus
This article addresses David Chalmers's hard problem of consciousness by asking why information processing is accompanied by a subjective 'what it is like'. Its point of departure is the distinction between intelligence and phenomenal consciousness: the achievements of contemporary artificial intelligence show that reasoning, planning, language, and the accurate description of emotions do not...
The Functionalist Trilemma
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 10, 2026 Wolfgang Stegemann preprint
Functionalism is among the most influential positions in the philosophy of mind. Its central idea is that mental states are determined not by their material constitution but by their functional or causal role. This gives rise to the possibility of multiple realization: if the same functional organization can be realized in biological and artificial systems, then, in principle, the same mental...
Domesticating esoteric Buddhism: lay women, Foxin Jing practice, and somatic authority in contemporary China.
Frontiers in Sociology September 9, 2026 Tianyan Yin, Yaoping Liu, Daohua Xu
This study examines how lay women engage with, adapt, and transmit the heart-mind esoteric Buddhist tradition known as Foxin Jing () in contemporary China. Previous scholarship on Chinese esoteric Buddhism has predominantly focused on issues related to legitimacy, lineage, institutional power, and master-disciple relations. However, there has been a relative lack of focus on the role played by...
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Contemporary chinese buddhism
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Can an Algorithm Be Sacred? Affect, Embodiment, and the Spiritual Status of Artificial Intelligence: A Spinozist, Cross-Traditional Inquiry
Religions September 9, 2026 Abdurrazak Gültekin
The question of whether artificial intelligence could bear the imago Dei, possess a soul, be a subject of salvation, or suffer in a religiously weighty sense increasingly frames debates at the intersection of AI and faith. Such debates typically rest on an intellectualist criterion: they treat mind as intelligence or information processing, so that as machine performance advances, the sacred...
Happiness, Pleasure and Longevity
Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience September 9, 2026 Philippe Brouillard, Kamal Kishore Jangid
Two of the most active subjects in research today are happiness and longevity. This paper aims to understand the difference between happiness and pleasure and further investigate the correlation between happiness and longevity. We have re-defined happiness by using Quantum Science and compared happiness and pleasure. We have concluded that if we focus more on real happiness, which is expanding...