Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
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
preprint
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...
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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
preprint
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...
August 12, 2026
Edward S. Reed
The theory of space perception presented in The Principles of Psychology is one of the most coherent and developed arguments of that important book. Space perception was of great significance for James as a test case for his doctrine of psychophysiological unity (to be much more provocatively developed in his account of the stream of consciousness and of the emotions). James considered himself...
Inklusiva: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama
August 12, 2026
Shelli Septiayu Risandy, Hamid Nasuki
Sumarah, an indigenous Javanese spirituality (Kejawen), centers on the philosophy of total surrender to God Almighty through a meditation practice known as Sujud Sumarah. This study aims to explore the practice of Sujud Sumarah as a coping strategy for dealing with various life stressors. It examines the internalization of local spiritual values in building personal resilience. A descriptive...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Ali Safaei
preprint
This paper introduces a unified framework for the philosophy of perception that systematically integrates bottom-up sensory constraints with top-down cognitive processes. By establishing a shared structural architecture for all subjective experiences, the present framework demonstrates how genuine perceptions, illusions, and hallucinations can be derived from the same underlying mechanism....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper offers a contemporary reinterpretation of Plotinus’s doctrine of emanation by translating the metaphysical sequence One → Nous → Psyche into an ontological–phenomenological account of human experience. The Plotinean One is refigured as the Ontological Now: the immediate, objective presence of reality as experienced under maximal present-constraint, with minimal conceptual and...
Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica
August 12, 2026
Luis de Rivera, Estefanía Hernández‐Martín, Leonor de Rivera-Monterrey et al.
ABSTRACTObjective: Autogenic Training (AT) is a well-established psychophysiological method used in medicine and clinical psychology for stress reduction and emotional regulation. Traditionally viewed as a relaxation technique, it is now considered a form of meditation, with a unique “Dual Concentration” technique, which combines passive interoceptive focus with specific mental verbalizations....