March 19, 2026
Jingyu Wu
1 citation
Current debates surrounding concepts such as “basal cognition,” “minimal cognition,” “plant intelligence,” and “consciousness” are deeply mired in terminological demarcation and phenomenological description, with each side entrenched in its own position and consensus elusive. This paper proposes a meta-theoretical framework based on the “Sentient Principle,” shifting the focus of cognitive...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 19, 2026
Agordi Paul Oluwatosin
preprint
This paper presents a philosophical and systematic examination of the question, “Can computers think?” It begins by looking at the different meanings of the concept of thinking, positing that the answer to the question depends on how such a concept is conceived. On the one hand, this paper argues that if thinking is understood as problem solving, information processing, and intelligent...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
March 19, 2026
Mazviita Chirimuuta
The Brain Abstracted tackles the question of how we should interpret neuroscience for the purposes of doing philosophy of mind. Neurophilosophy rests on the premise that the findings presented in the theories and models of neuroscience are directly relevant to longstanding philosophical topics such as the nature of perception and agency. Insufficient attention has been paid to the challenge of...
Exploring Body-Mind Interactions and Their Impact on Well-Being
March 19, 2026
Oriane Chevalier
After fourteen years of wandering across Asia, Alexandra David-Neel became the first Western woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in 1924. To get there, the explorer passed herself off as an old Tibetan beggar, a metamorphosis that was not only physical but also spiritual, marking her identity and enabling her to transcend cultural boundaries. The body certainly affects the mind by...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
March 19, 2026
J. Browning, Zed Adams
Mazviita Chirimuuta has written a timely book that reinvigorates a classic argument against mechanical minds: biological naturalism, the view that consciousness and general intelligence depend upon life. A central commitment of this book is a kind of Kantian humility about the prospects for our knowledge of the brain: it holds that because there is a fundamental difference in kind between...
Exploring Body-Mind Interactions and Their Impact on Well-Being
March 19, 2026
Yoshihara Kazufumi
Stress triggers mind-body symptoms by activating the autonomic nervous system through the brain. Neuroimaging studies have identified the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insular cortex as being central to this interaction. Abnormalities in these regions have been linked to stress-related disorders such as depression, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic pain. Recent research shows that...
Exploring Body-Mind Interactions and Their Impact on Well-Being
March 19, 2026
Aira Dutta, Kirti Tyagi
Ritual recitation, central to many religious traditions, is increasingly recognized as a promising mind-body intervention for trauma recovery. Trauma often disrupts the nervous system, leaving survivors in cycles of emotional dysregulation, hyperarousal, and loss of meaning. While conventional trauma therapies offer significant support, they may not fully address all the dimensions of trauma...
Minds and Machines
March 19, 2026
Jannis Friedrich, Martin H. Fischer
Predictive processing posits that prediction-error minimization underlies all perception, action, and cognition. Yet, despite its considerable popularity and explanatory scope, it is unclear how this enables higher-level cognitive abilities, such as representing and reasoning over abstract concepts. We combine insights from predictive processing, structural representations and grounded...
International journal of human movement and sports sciences
March 18, 2026
M Praveen Kumar, C. M. Balasubramaniam, J. Tejaswi et al.
Smartphone addiction among college students is strongly associated with elevated psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and chronic stress. While yogic interventions show promise for mental health improvement, limited evidence exists comparing yogic practices alone versus combined with yoga nidra for psychological outcomes in this population. We aimed to evaluate whether yogic...
Человеческий капитал.
March 18, 2026
М.а. Винникова, О.в. Бодров, О.а. Власова
Стресс является неотъемлемой частью жизни современного человека и ввиду роста показателей его сформированности среди населения становится важным определять рабочие копинговые стратегии. В данной работе изучается связь медитативных практик со способностью человека справляться с патологическими стресс-реакциями. Гипотеза исследования: чем чаще человек занимается медитациями, тем он более...