Dreams are universal yet highly idiosyncratic experiences. While memories and personal concerns are known to influence dream content, how such influences evolve over time and how stable individual traits shape dreaming remain unclear. Here, we systematically quantified the semantic structure of dreams in a large, multimodal dataset comprising 3366 reports of dreams and waking experiences...
This paper develops a cognitive-constructivist account of consciousness focusing not on what consciousness does but on how it presents. Building on an Interpreter–Navigator model of mind, we argue that phenomenal experience (qualia) serves as a user interface (UI): a presentational format optimized for direct usability by an embodied agent. The central claim is that feeling is the utility...
This systematic literature review examines how mindfulness has been implemented in teaching and learning across educational settings from 2010 to 2024. Forty peer-reviewed studies were identified through Scopus and Web of Science, and analyzed thematically using NVivo 14 Plus. The review highlights six dominant models, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Langerian mindfulness,...
This study explores the symbolic origin of the human mind through an integrative approach that combines neuroscience and semiotics. The central research question guiding this work is: How are neurocognitive processes and semiotic systems articulated in the genesis of human consciousness? From a theoretical–documentary methodology, this research analyzes interdisciplinary contributions from...
We report a longitudinal single-subject case study documenting replicated electroencephalographic (EEG) signatures during high-amplitude sexual arousal states and post-arousal quiescence in a 57-year-old male subject with no formal meditative training. Data were collected using a consumer-grade EEG headset (Muse S Gen 2 / Mind Monitor, 4-channel: TP9, AF7, AF8, TP10). EEG data collection was...
This essay examines the relation between meditative experience, metaphysical interpretation, and ontological responsibility. It acknowledges the seriousness of spiritual experience and the legitimate attempt to move beyond inherited belief toward lived realization. Yet it argues that the immediacy, depth, or transformative power of an experience does not by itself establish the truth of its...
The Inventory of Psychotic-Like Anomalous Self-Experiences (IPASE) was developed as an easy-to-use, self-report measure of self-disorders. Self-disorders are subtle, trait-like, non-psychotic anomalous self-experiences that are traditionally assessed by trained raters using a semi-structured clinical interview, such as the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE). Whether self-disorders...
Emotional awareness in early childhood has not yet developed optimally due to the limited availability of structured learning media and the lack of pedagogical support in social-emotional learning. This study aims to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based reflective animation in improving children’s ability to recognize, label, and regulate emotions. This study used a mixed...
The idea that cognition involves dialogic interchange between mutually influencing “voices” has long featured in psychology and philosophy. While dialogic structure is most explicit in inner speech, some authors have argued that other types of mental activity can be (or always are) dialogic. We introduce two dimensions of dialogism, strength and depth, and characterize a particularly deep form...
This essay examines the ontological limits of algorithmic mediation in the constitution of contemporary subjectivity. Drawing on the critiques of Han (2015, 2022), Zuboff (2019), and Turkle (2011), and grounded in the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (1945) and the enactivism of Di Paolo (2005) and Fuchs and De Jaegher (2009), the central argument holds that technical hyperconnectivity...