Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 13, 2026
Alexandru C. Stan
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Must life be made of anything at all? Where its companion volume The Other Chemistry asked whether life could be built on a different chemistry — silicon rather than carbon — this sister essay climbs one rung higher and asks whether life must be chemistry, or matter, in the first place. It descends a ladder of abstraction through three candidates for what the living fundamentally is: matter...
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
August 13, 2026
Hsin-Yuan Liu, Hsuan-Pin Chen
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This paper addresses the contemporary crisis of existential vacuum by examining how death anxiety may be reinterpreted through meaning-centered contemplation. Drawing on Ken Wilber’s Three Eyes of Knowing, the study brings Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, transpersonal psychology, Buddhist Nianfo practice, and selected insights from cognitive neuroscience into philosophical dialogue. Nianfo is...
Monism Matters
August 13, 2026
Torin Alter
Abstract The relevant sort of monism is type monism, according to which all actual, concrete phenomena are such that there is exactly one unified, substantive, fundamental nature that they share. Considerations about monism help (i) motivate physicalism, idealism, and neutral monism; (ii) ground a traditional taxonomy in the philosophy of mind; (iii) explain core commitments of physicalism,...
August 13, 2026
Giulio Tononi, Andrew M. Haun, Chen Song et al.
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Everyone lives within a Perception Box (PB). What we see and hear—how we interpret it and what it means to us—depends on our brain and learning history. Recognizing that perception is subjective, and understanding why, are key steps to open our minds, counteract bias, and reduce suffering. This project seeks to establish a rigorous theoretical and empirical foundation for the science of the PB....
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences
August 12, 2026
Bhawna Mittal
Background: Women often face emotional, hormonal, psychological, and physical challenges at different stages of life. Issues like anxiety, stress, poor sleep, fatigue, mood swings, and perimenopausal symptoms such as hot flushes are becoming more common in community wellness settings. In Ayurveda, Marma refers to important anatomical and energetic points linked to circulation, sensory...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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Cognitive constructivism holds that cognition is not a passive mirroring of the world but an active process of constructing internal models of reality. This paper explores proto-cognition—the earliest manifestations of cognitive processes in organisms lacking complex nervous systems—as the evolutionary foundation of that constructivist principle. Drawing on a comparative constructivist...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Alexander Kapralov
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This conceptual position paper proposes the Cogniternet: a prospective network of interacting human-AI cognitive systems in which the foundational unit is a sustained partnership between a human being and a personal AI model. Drawing on extended mind theory, distributed cognition, man-computer symbiosis, collective intelligence, and contemporary research on human-AI teaming, the paper develops...
Explore
August 12, 2026
Alex V Priala
Contemporary approaches to emotional healing have predominantly emphasized cognitive and top-down processes. However, many traditional healing systems across cultures have long recognized the primacy of embodied, somatic experience in the restoration of well-being. This Perspective proposes a reversed paradigm: that feeling differently leads to thinking and reacting differently. Somatic...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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How should we understand human agency and moral responsibility in a world governed by natural laws? This paper develops a compatibilist account grounded in cognitive constructivism, proposing that agency is best conceived as a model-control architecture. On this view, an agent is a self-constructing, self-controlling system defined by its capacity to generate, select, inhibit, and revise...
Dev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal
August 12, 2026
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali present a sophisticated psychological framework for understanding the human mind. Central to this philosophy is chitta, the mind-field composed of consciousness, intellect, and ego, and its disturbances, known as chitta vrittis. These mental fluctuations influence perception, emotional stability, and spiritual development. Patanjali proposes Abhyasa (consistent...