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The View from Everywhere April 25, 2025 Helen Yetter-Chappell
Abstract Chapter 2 develops the nontheistic idealist account of the nature of reality—focusing on the contents and structure of the physical world. For the nontheistic idealist, physical reality is like a tapestry, weaving threads of phenomenology into a world of structured color, warmth, sound, and taste. The primary questions this chapter answers are: (i) What sorts of experiences make up the...
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 25, 2025 Xiaran Song, Anqi Wang, Andrés Lucero
Technology has become deeply woven into the practices of faith communities who engage in shared prayer, online worship, or meditation. Despite a growing body of research on religious/spiritual practices, the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community has yet to fully investigate Techno-Spirituality, especially through a first-person approach. We explored prayer experiences to understand which...
Stallion Journal for Multidisciplinary Associated Research Studies April 25, 2025 Harikumar Pallathadka, Parag Deb Roy, Rita Sarkar et al.
This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding consciousness through an interdisciplinary analysis of the Bengali devotional song "Mon Chalo Nijo Niketane" ("O Mind, Return to Your True Abode"), historically associated with Swami Vivekananda. By integrating third-generation cognitive science, quantum neurodynamics, contemplative phenomenology, and enactive approaches to...
Religious Studies April 25, 2025 Tim Mulgan
Abstract This articles reimagines Anselm’s claim that God is ‘that than which a greater cannot be thought’ [Hereafter: ‘THAT’]. The article first explores a variety of Anselm-inspired of what THAT is like, and how THAT relates to whatever (if anything) is not-THAT (hereafter: ‘THIS’). THAT could be Anselm’s creator God, a polytheist pantheon, or a single undifferentiated One/Absolute/Brahman....
Frontiers in Psychology April 25, 2025 Gheorghe Ilie, Adrian V. Jaeggi
One of the foundational tenets of evolutionary psychology, the modular view of the mind, offers promising applications for clinical psychiatry. This perspective conceptualizes the mind as a collection of specialized information-processing modules, shaped by natural selection to address adaptive challenges faced by our ancestors. In this paper, we propose several points of integration between...
April 25, 2025 Eric van Lente, Michael Hogan preprint
Experiencing oneness or nondual awareness has long been considered a core aspect of spirituality and an aim of meditation and spiritual practice. Oneness experience may lead to well-being and has various adaptive functions in everyday life. However, there has been a lack of comprehensive measures of oneness experiences that are grounded in the consensus-based reports of experienced meditation...
Philosophies April 25, 2025 Federico Divino 5 citations
In this paper, the Buddhist view on language and its implications for perception and cognition will be analyzed. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that archaic Buddhism, as documented in the suttas of the Pāli Canon, already presents a well-articulated theory of knowledge, and that Buddhist considerations on the problem of language are comparable to Saussure’s early linguistic theories,...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies April 25, 2025 Przemysław Rupiński, Weronika Drabek, Paweł Holas 2 citations
Abstract Background and Aims This systematic review examines the association between psychedelic use and enhanced life purpose and meaning, as assessed by the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Purpose in Life Scale (PILS). Interest in psychedelics' therapeutic potential has grown, with some studies suggesting that these substances encourage meaningful psychological insights that...
Maria Montessori's Philosophy April 24, 2025 Patrick R. Frierson
Abstract This chapter shows how Montessori’s metaphysics of life (Chapter 3) provides a framework within which the human mind fits into a unified conception of nature; the mind is an emergent power that makes use of but supersedes biological forces in something like the way that biological forces make use of and supersede chemical forces. The mind marks a form of teleologically oriented agency...
arXiv Preprint Archive April 23, 2025 Ryan Williams preprint
This paper explores the hard problem of consciousness from a different perspective. Instead of drawing distinctions between the physical and the mental, an exploration of a more foundational relationship is examined: the relationship between structure and quality. Information-theoretic measures are developed to quantify the mutual determinability between structure and quality, including a novel...