ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that an ordinary human brain is associated with a single mind. Indeed, this assumption is so deeply rooted that it is rarely articulated explicitly, let alone questioned. However, as philosophers of mind have increasingly noticed, it turns out to rest on alarmingly shaky ground. In this article, I argue for the multiplicity hypothesis : under normal conditions,...
Bipolar II disorder (BD-II) is characterised by hypomanic and depressive episodes with the latter tending to dominate the clinical course of the disorder, and they are often associated with suicidality. Despite available guideline-based recommendations for first-line pharmacological treatments, patient outcomes remain suboptimal, especially for those with chronic depression and suicidal...
Suppose an intelligent being encountered the world for the first time. What is the minimum set of cognitive operations required for understanding to emerge? This paper argues that understanding is constructed from the recursive interaction of two elementary operations: distinction, which segments an unbounded reality into stabilized objects, and relation, which binds those objects into patterns...
A philosophy-of-mind reflection on duality. It argues that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of "seeing whole" corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on...
The beginning of the twenty-first century has been marked by profound transformations in the ways reality, human beings, and society are understood. The rapid development of cognitive science, neuroscience, complexity theory, synergetics, quantum physics, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence has prompted a fundamental reconsideration of many traditional assumptions concerning the...
Legado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo — A Scholarly Appraisal AbstractLegado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo (2026) offers an interdisciplinaryexamination of dreams at the intersection of brain, mind, culture, creativity, and AI. Publishedby Pod Editora, authored by Marleide da Mota Gomes, the volume proposes that dreamsfunction as biological, emotional, and...
A brief introduction to the Western philosophical tradition of examining the difficult problem of man allows us, on the one hand, to identify aspects that bring it closer to Buddhist anthropology (the rejection of the epistemological paradigm and an emphasis on the ontology of freedom and the “hiddenness of being”); on the other hand, it highlights the latter’s profound specificity: it...
Just as athletes train their bodies for the race ahead, Christian healthcare leaders must prepare their hearts and minds for the journey set before them. This preparation begins with cultivating inner resilience, which is vital in high-stress healthcare environments. Practices like meditation, mindfulness, and breathwork help calm the mind, ground the body, and foster spiritual clarity. In that...
One of the challenges our current polycrisis presents is to comprehend the role of our understanding of consciousness in the genesis of this host of intertwined crises. Instead of focusing on the so-called hard problem of how experience and subjectivity arise from matter, the suggestion is that the actual hard problem is how our minds and bodies lost their sensual, nurturing embeddedness in the...
Abstract Jnana Yoga, often referred to as the "Path of Knowledge," is one of the four principal paths of yoga in Indian philosophy, as outlined in the Bhagavad Gita and other Vedantic texts. Rooted in deep introspection and philosophical inquiry, Jnana Yoga focuses on self-realization through the discernment of the true Self (Atman) from the transient physical and mental identity. This paper...