This contribution offers a literary approach to extended cognition and asks in which capacity interactions with the nonhuman come to shape cognitive development. Specifically, this question is posed in regards to our active use of nonhuman instruments that are recognized as a reflection of social practices that mediate our engagement with the world. In this sense, the fictional journal entries...
Introdução: A interface entre espiritualidade e neurociência tem se consolidado como campo transdisciplinar capaz de iluminar processos de autoconsciência, autorreferência e produção de sentido, sem reduzir a experiência humana a localizações cerebrais isoladas. Objetivo: Analisar, por meio de revisão bibliográfica integrativa, como redes neurais associadas ao self e à cognição social sustentam...
This paper proposes a neurophilosophical conceptual model of human consciousness structured as two functional brain states: the personal mode and the meta-reflective mode. The personal mode is defined as a motivationally and socially embedded configuration of neural processes oriented toward adaptation, identity maintenance, and ego-relevant concerns. The meta-reflective mode is characterized...
Abstract The aim of this article is to show how a shift toward a conception of consciousness as an embodied and mediated relation makes it possible to reframe the problem of consciousness in terms of experience, action, and the production of meaning within social and socio-technical worlds. Starting from a simple heuristic scenario, a child playing with a ball, the article outlines the main...
Time feels different depending on your mental state. It compresses when you're in the zone, stretches on psychedelics, and disappears completely under anesthesia. These distortions are well documented in neuroscience, but the major theories of consciousness don't generate quantitative predictions about them. This paper presents a formal framework that attempts to. It proposes that consciousness...
This paper develops a unified framework addressing the evidential foundations and dynamical structure of consciousness science through three co-equal pillars. The epistemological pillar presents a formal Bayesian argument (Theorem 2.3) demonstrating that first-person subjective reports, neural correlates, and all other functionally determined observations carry a likelihood ratio of exactly one...
Interoceptive dysfunction represents a critical therapeutic target across multiple health domains. Contemporary interventions demonstrate limitations in efficacy and specificity, while traditional mind-body practices present empirically underexplored yet theoretically promising alternatives. This investigation systematically evaluates the psychophysiological effects of Hunyuan Zhuang, a Chinese...
This paper explores the emergence of life through a comparative lens that brings Vedic–Upanishadic cosmology into dialogue with modern scientific theories of abiogenesis and consciousness. Classical texts such as the Chāndogya Upaniṣad describe creation as unfolding from Sat, “Existence alone-One without a second,” from which space, air, fire, water, and earth arise through conscious will and...
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the fundamental tenets of Indian Yoga philosophy, particularly the importance of Yama (social conduct) and Niyama (personal discipline). In the Indian spiritual tradition, high conduct and character are considered essential for attaining enlightenment and liberation, which are embodied in the Yama-Niyamas of Yoga. This paper explains the concepts of...
This article examines the global phenomenon of mind-body practices like Tai Chi Chih as contemporary expressions of enduring religious impulses in a secular age. Challenging the classical secularization thesis, it argues that modernity has not eliminated religiosity but transformed it, relocating the sacred from institutional settings to embodied, personal experience. Through the theoretical...