Research Square
December 22, 2025
Negar Fani, Alexa Kondas, Vishwadeep Ahluwalia et al.
preprint
Vibration-based therapies are understudied but promising methods for alleviating psychiatric symptoms, particularly when paired with behavioral practices. The potential neuroplastic changes associated with a novel neurostimulation method, sternal vibration, and associations with clinical change remain unknown. We examined effects of sternal vibration paired with mindfulness meditation on change...
Resonancias. Revista de filosofía
December 21, 2025
Adriano Martins-Costa, Fabiana Prazeres-Martins
This paper investigates the philosophical implications of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in light of classical and contemporary theories of mind and consciousness. The study revisits key philosophical debates to evaluate the plausibility of machine consciousness. Based on recent discussions, including Chalmers' 2023 analysis, the paper argues that LLMs may not yet exhibit...
Gândirea militară românească
December 21, 2025
Facultatea de Educație Fizică Și Sport Academia Tehnică Militară; Facultatea de Psihologie Și Științele Educației Științe Cognitive În Limba Engleză, Daria Ștefania Mihalcea
This essay proposes the idea that an individual’s body has an undeniable role in the understanding of the concrete world. Embodied cognition is an approach to cognition that puts emphasis on locomotion, is one of the most important ways an organism receives sensory signals about the environment. 4E Cognition theory has as a core idea the fact that our mind isn’t limited to the brain, but it...
Scientific Journal of Technology
December 20, 2025
Yiting Min
This essay argues that as advanced AI systems increasingly resemble minded agents, theuncertainty surrounding artificial consciousness carries moral consequences. While wecannot determine whether machines possess subjective experience, theories ofmind—including functionalism and critiques like Searle’s—show that their status remainsontologically open. Because the cost of wrongly denying...
Healthcare
December 20, 2025
Lotte Bock, Erik Riedel, Madiha Rana
Background: Emotional intelligence (EI), particularly the ability to regulate one’s emotions, is a key protective factor against stress and burnout in high-demand occupations, including leadership and healthcare. Compassion and gratitude practices have been proposed as brief, scalable methods to strengthen emotion regulation, yet empirical evidence from randomised controlled trials remains...
Przegląd Orientalistyczny
December 20, 2025
Urszula Mach-Bryson
The theme, the virtues of tea, evolved over time into the ten virtues of tea (cha no juttoku), and is present in Japanese tea tradition as early as the arrival of powdered tea in Japan. The earliest examples come from the Kissa yōjōki (Record of drinking tea for health, 1214) by Myōan Eisai and the inscription on the iron kettle of ten virtues (juttokugama) attributed to Myōe. Virtues from...
Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo
December 19, 2025
Krzysztof Piętak
Artykuł stanowi próbę wyjaśnienia przyczyn marginalizacji przez filozoficzny mainstream dwóch filozofów – George’a Berkeleya i Henry’ego Bergsona – oraz jednego problemu, mianowicie problemu qualiów, dyskutowanego obecnie w kontekście statusu fizykalizmu. Zgodnie z główną tezą artykułu przyczyn tej marginalizacji należy doszukiwać się w antykantowskim przesłaniu tych dwóch filozofów oraz...
Arts, Culture and Language
December 19, 2025
Yutong Zhang
This paper critiques the strong “meme theory” advanced by Susan Blackmore, which claims that all mental phenomena like consciousness, agency, and selfhood can be reduced to the replication and competition of memes. While memetics offers valuable insights into cultural evolution, its explanatory power becomes limited when extended to the philosophy of mind. Two main challenges have developed....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 18, 2025
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Kahneman's dual-process theory, distinguishing between automatic processing (System 1) and deliberate processing (System 2), has profoundly shaped understanding of cognition and decision-making. This theoretical paper proposes that a third mode of engagement has received limited attention within this framework: one that involves neither automatic reaction nor deliberate construction, but rather...
Poligrafi
December 18, 2025
Bojan Žalec
This article discusses the plausibility of uploading the human mind onto a non-biological digital medium. The concept of mind uploading has gained significant momentum due to advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence. This question is highly relevant for theology and religion because it addresses key theological issues. Undoubtedly, mind uploading conflicts with religious and...