Debates about consciousness, artificial intelligence, animal minds, and moral status often conflate distinct questions that require different standards of explanation and assessment. This article distinguishes four such questions: subjectivity, moral patiency, personhood, and autonomous will. It argues that current work has made progress on two tasks—functional and phenomenological...
This paper argues that Candrakīrti's (c. 7th century) systematic use of ‘non-analysis' (avicāra) functions not merely as a philosophical technique for preserving conventional reality from ultimate deconstruction, but also as embedded meditative guidance intended to foster contemplative realization. While contemporary scholarship has largely approached Madhyamaka through Western philosophical...
In this work, we present a mathematical model for cyclic and sequential patterns of brain activity, combining heteroclinic dynamics with discrete neural-field models. We first show that spatial-discrete neural-field equations with biologically realistic equilibria cannot support heteroclinic cycles. On the other hand, heterocline dynamics often arise in Lotka-Volterra-type systems, but these...
Delusions can be strikingly selective: individuals may hold highly elaborated, unshakeable beliefs in one domain while remaining otherwise cognitively intact. Models emphasising dopaminergic salience or belief-updating failures account for the intensity and persistence of delusions but struggle to explain their circumscribed nature. This paper develops a conceptual framework that complements...
The Faradarmani Consciousness Field is non-physical in nature, and its influence begins through the human mind. In a previous study using fMRI, it was shown that specific brain regions in trained individuals, known as Faradarmangars, became activated or deactivated during the task state involving the use of this field. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H-MRS), as a non-invasive method,...
Although Islamic psychotherapy has received attention in various previous studies, research that specifically discusses the structured procedures and clinical mechanisms of Islamic psychotherapy techniques for treating anxiety and stress in Muslim populations remains limited. This study aims to analyze and evaluate the main procedures of Islamic psychotherapy in treating anxiety and stress...
ReligionsMay 3, 2026Muhammadullah Haji Moh Naseem, Meryem Gürbüz
This study examines the human–nature relationship in the thoughts of Yunus Emre (d. ca. 1320) and addresses the Qur’anic positioning of humanity as laden with responsibility through the idea of amanah (entrustment), while focusing on Yunus Emre’s reflections on this concept as both a mystical stance and a moral state. His poems place humanity not as an absolute claim of ownership over the world...
Emotional regulation is one of the psychological processes that is necessary to recognize, regulate and respond to emotional experience. As more and more individuals embrace yoga as a complete mind-body practice, yoga has been steadily garnering attention in the realm of mental health—particularly in its various forms, which incorporate a wide range of physical positions, breathing methods,...
This systematic literature review (2020-2025) of 64 studies examines the associations between spiritual practices and the holistic well-being of working women. Interventions such as meditation, mindfulness, and workplace yoga are consistently linked to favorable shifts in the Mind-Body axis, characterized by lower cortisol levels and improved autonomic balance. These physiological changes track...
Background: Current developmental theories inadequately address the integration between analytical and holistic cognitive processing in consciousness evolution. Drawing from 30 years of clinical observation and comparative religious studies, we propose a theoretical framework wherein consciousness development depends on balanced cultivation of left-hemispheric (analytical) and right-hemispheric...