Abstract This essay develops an account of aesthetic form. Aesthetic form is not a matter of genre, style, or presentation, but the organization of appearance in which ordinary orientation breaks down and becomes a claim on thought. It requires a discipline of preserving both resistance and surrender in the face of what disturbs sense. Written in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Alva...
Abstract Turning inward, this chapter explores how the self sustains conflict and violence across every domain of life. It shows how identity divides the perceiver from the perceived, creating opposites that feed comparison, competition and aggression. The inquiry traces this movement from personal insecurity to collective ideology, from family and classroom to nation and state. Fear, desire...
Revista NeurociênciasAugust 11, 2026Maria Fernanda Lucena Bezerra, Ian Onuki Monteiro
The television show Altered Carbon, based on Richard K. Morgan’s book, narrates a futuristic society in which it is possible to separate consciousness from the body, inserting it in an external stack. The popularization of this technology, common to almost all citizens, creates discussion about that society, where the identity is now dissociated from its material form. Here we discuss the...
ABSTRACT On one narrative, Berkeleyan idealism arises from Cartesian theorising: Descartes's discussion of dreaming in the Meditations leads first to scepticism, and through scepticism, to Berkeley's rejection of realism. In this paper, I consider how this move from dreams to idealism is supposed to work. I trace this narrative back to Andrew Baxter, one of Berkeley's earliest critics, and...
This paper develops a comparative metaphysical model in which individual minds are treated as finite concretions of a unified cosmic consciousness. The analysis connects Neoplatonic emanation, the Nous and the World Soul with Spinoza's substance, attributes, modes, and conatus. It also discusses conceptual parallels with modern theoretical physics, especially string theory, quantum...
Voice and singing have accompanied human communities since ancient times as forms of communication, ritual, emotional expression, social bonding and spiritual practice. Across diverse cultural contexts, vocal music has been used not only to represent beliefs but also to create relationships between individuals, communities, the natural world, and dimensions of experience that may be described...
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has intensified a long-standing feature of human cognition: the attribution of agency, intention, and understanding to nonhuman systems. People describe language models, virtual assistants, and autonomous technologies as if these systems know, decide, want, or understand, and they continue to do so even when they know the...
Embodied artificial intelligence typically treats a local chassis moving through the world as the agent's body. This paper proposes Architectural Body Intelligence (ABI), which reverses this spatial relation. In ABI, sensory surfaces distributed across the floor, walls, and ceiling constitute an architectural body, while a small robot or manipulator moving within its cavity intervenes on...
Zenodo Description This paper presents an integrated philosophical-psychological model based on four interconnected concepts: Karma and Result, Eligibility, Contentment, and Transformation of Consciousness. The paper proposes that the relationship between action and result should not be understood solely through linear time, but through a process of maturation. It distinguishes between...
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) describes meridians as channels through which vital energy (Qi) flows, with disturbances in this flow associated with disease. Contemporary research has demonstrated that classical meridian points possess distinctive electrical properties that vary with autonomic and metabolic states. This study investigated the effects of different yogic practices,...