This essay argues that Dr. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point theory more parsimoniously aligns with universal apotheosis than the Abrahamic God, given life's unfairness and undeserved suffering, which suggest that all beings achieve godhood across infinite multiversal possibilities rather than relying on a singular entity that equally cares for all. Supporting this, the CIA's Gateway Process favors...
Psychedelics, such as psilocybin, reorganise large-scale brain connectivity, yet how these changes are reflected across electrophysiological (electroencephalogram, EEG) and haemodynamic (functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) networks remains unclear. We present Brain-MGF, a multimodal graph fusion network for joint EEG-fMRI connectivity analysis. For each modality, we construct graphs...
The nature, location and functioning of the human mind remain contentious topics among philosophers, psychologists, linguists and AI researchers. Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in the cognitive revolution, offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the mind’s structure, processes and interactions with cognitive modules. This paper explores Chomsky’s perspective on the mind’s capacities,...
Abstract This article presents a case for engaging with fictional narratives to teach philosophical concepts, specifically exploring Christopher Nolan’s Memento to teach concepts related to Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ ‘The Extended Mind Thesis’ (EMT). I contrast a ‘theoretical’ approach to teaching EMT—that is, teaching these concepts by engaging directly with Clark and Chalmers’ text—with...
This paper formulates a possible embodied account of consciousness by integrating the vantages of ancient Chinese philosophy and medicine and predictive processing theories in cognitive science. It draws on robust empirical evidence from across the cognitive sciences, including contemporaneous work in philosophy of mind, neuropsychiatry, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to build...
ABSTRACT This paper explores the possibilities of extension of the human being through technologies like wearable devices that are used to track physical activity. The goal is to give a possible conceptual framework to help analyse the relationship between human user and tracking device. The paper thus follows the extended mind theory according to Clark & Chalmers, and argues that tracking...
This article explores the productive intersection between analytic theology and analytic philosophy of mind through the lens of Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland’s 2024 monograph The Substance of Consciousness. Its aim is to show that the soul hypothesis is anything but an anachronism; rather, it opens research avenues capable of revitalising theories of consciousness while enriching...
Building on the Extended Mind (EM) theory and radical enactivism, this article suggests an alternative to representation-based models of the mind. We lay out a novel ABC framework of the translating mind, in which translation is not the manipulation of static interlingual correspondences but an enacted activity, dynamically integrating affective, behavioral, and cognitive (ABC) processes....
This article examines the phenomenon of forest monks’ meditative practices in Thai Buddhism based on a comprehensive historical, philosophical, phenomenological, and sociocultural analysis. Particular attention is paid to the role of key teachers in the dissemination of this phenomenon (Ajahn Sao, Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Chah, and others), meditation methods (samatha, vipassana, thudong), and the...
This paper examines the theoretical and practical dialogue between Western psychoanalysis and Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), arguing for a complementary, culturally attuned psychology. It maps core psychoanalytic constructs; unconscious processes, repression, ego dynamics, and the therapeutic role of narrative, onto IKS concepts such as citta , samskara , ahamkara , and avidya . While...