JCPP Advances
October 7, 2025
Carolina Guzman Holst, Simona Skripkauskaite, Jack L. Andrews et al.
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories. This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the...
October 6, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Consciousness remains one of the most profound unsolved problems in science, particularly regarding the persistence of a unique self across disruption, duplication, or time. Existing frameworks—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR)—describe mechanisms of awareness but fail to explain continuity and uniqueness...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 6, 2025
Shurui Li
preprint
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence necessitate a re-examination of the epistemological foundations upon which we attribute consciousness. As AI systems increasingly mimic human behavior and interaction with high fidelity, the concept of a "perfect mimic"-an entity empirically indistinguishable from a human through observation and interaction-shifts from hypothetical to technologically...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
October 6, 2025
Kan Feng, Mingyu Yang
BACKGROUND: In recent years, the renewal of soul-centred shamanic soul retrieval theories has provided various theoretical interpretations of the shamanic soul retrieval phenomenon and has exacerbated the "explanatory gap" found in "mind-mater" dualism. However, these theories cannot explain the body-centred turn of modern Chinese shamans under the influence of the body revitalization movement...
Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic and Practice Studies
October 2, 2025
Shamsutdinova Nigina Karimovna
Purpose: This study aims to explore the secret knowledge within the Sufi views of Ibn Sina, focusing on how his philosophical and scientific perspectives intersect with spiritual interpretations. The objective is to understand Ibn Sina’s contribution to Sufi thought, especially his vision of the macrocosm (olami akbar) as perceived through the soul. Research methodology: The research adopts a...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 2, 2025
Michaël Gillon
preprint
Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and computationally explicit framework in which consciousness is a discrete sequence of Integrated Informational States (IISs). Each IIS is a packet of integrated...
Preprints.org
October 2, 2025
Gerd Leidig
preprint
This paper challenges the dominant representationalist paradigm in the philosophy of mind by developing a process-monistic, anti-representationalist account of cognition. It argues that the persistent mind-body problem is a consequence of a flawed substance ontology and the representationalist framework it necessitates. To overcome this, the paper constructs a critical synthesis of three...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
October 2, 2025
André Leclerc
In most countries of Latin America, there are philosophers working in the philosophy of mind. Interesting contributions has been made to all the important themes of recent Philosophy of mind in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Columbia. There are works on Externalism, Naturalism, Enactivism, Extended Mind, Physicalism, Mental Causation, Intentionality, Consciousness and the phenomenal...
Social Epistemology
October 1, 2025
Paul R. Smart
ABSTRACT The mind–technology problem refers to issues that lie at the intersection of technology development and the philosophy of mind. In the present paper, I explore one aspect of the mind–technology problem, namely, the role of technologies in supporting the emergence of extended minds. I approach this issue from an engineering perspective, suggesting that the project to build extended...
Ibom Medical Journal
October 1, 2025
EI Archibong, FE Osho, AE Udoh et al.
This paper undertook a critical and exploratory inquiry into how causality in the mind-body relationship has been theorised and operationalised in contemporary mental health discourse. Unlike dominant approaches that prioritised brain-based explanations for psychological disorders, this paper interrogated the ontological and epistemic assumptions underpinning neurobiological reductionism, which...