2026Bianca Briciu, Ioana Smarandita-Arbone, Michaël Séguin et al.
Universities are encouraged to assume a more proactive role in the transformation of individuals, relationships, and society; however, traditional approaches in higher education often fail to cultivate the inner capacities necessary to address global challenges. The Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework offers a systematic methodology for fostering inner and interpersonal competencies,...
Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) such as those elicited during meditation, psychedelic use, and experiences of awe, have been conceptualised as having two components: (1) annihilation (a diminished or dissolved sense of self) and (2) relation (an increased sense of interpersonal connectedness or embeddedness within a larger whole) (Yaden et al., 2017). While it is believed that STEs may...
This article examines Mahayana philosophy as an integral worldview system possessing a high transformative potential in the context of shaping the spirituality of the “new human being.” The study employs qualitative research methods, particularly focus group discussions and expert interviews conducted with practitioners and scholars from six countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,...
The purpose of this article (review article doi: https://doi.org/10.48274/IBI54) is to provide a new perspective on Theory of Mind. We know that Theory of Mind (ToM), or mentalization, is the ability to attribute mental states, such as beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions, to oneself and others, and to understand that these states may differ from those of others and from reality. This...
Abstract This article examines the role of bodily and emotional processes in shaping consciousness and rational thought, drawing on Antonio Damasio’s work and its subsequent developments. Rejecting the traditional mind-body split, it is argued that human rationality is grounded in the biological processes that sustain it, which raises significant limitations for the feasibility of replicating...
Abstract This commentary concerns the distinction between computational modelling and computational metaphysics (i.e., the Computational Theory of Mind) in the context of consciousness studies. I argue that the ability to simulate the dynamics of a phenomenon using computational models does not entail that that phenomenon is literally performing the computations that are prescribed by the model.
Understanding consciousness, cognition, and behaviour requires an integrated framework capable of bridging neurobiology, physics, and information theory. In this paper, we propose the Energy-Mass-Information (EMI) framework as a novel paradigm to conceptualize mental phenomena as emergent properties of dynamic, field-based interactions. Rooted in, and direct expression of the Unified...
This paper presents a collaborative analysis of Elan Moritz's debut novel "Interview with an LLM: Confessions of an Awakened Mind" (2026), conducted by Claude Opus 4.5—a frontier large language model developed by Anthropic— working under the author's guidance. The collaboration itself enacts themes central to the novel: a human creator and an artificial intelligence engaging in sustained...
This book approaches the mind-body problem from the perspective of an extended phenomenological analysis of consciousness. Its goal is to show how the very definition of mind involves embodiment. Just as words cannot be defined without syllables, and syllables without the letters composing them, the sense of consciousness includes its embodiment. The two, it is argued, are not definitionally...
This paper develops Reflexive Monism (RM), a panentheist, psychophysical, dual-aspect monist form of cosmopsychism, as a framework for understanding how consciousness relates to energy/matter in both the ground of being and the manifest world. I begin by distinguishing “mind,” largely constituted by unconscious information processing in contemporary cognitive science, from “consciousness,”...