Artificial intelligence prospects and possibilities in education and society
2025
Gopa Saha Roy, Bishal Banerjee
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) represents a transformative leap in the field of artificial intelligence, with the ultimate goal of creating machines capable of performing any intellectual task that a human can. Unlike Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), which is limited to specific tasks, AGI aspires to achieve cognitive flexibility, learning, and problem-solving abilities across...
2025
Khai Wager
Is the cosmos itself conscious, and could our minds be aspects of its vast, overarching consciousness? In this ambitious and original study, Khai Wager defends cosmopsychism, the view that the universe as a whole is conscious and that individual minds like ours derive from this cosmic consciousness. Wager situates cosmopsychism within what he calls the landscape of fundamental consciousness,...
Bulletin of Mariupol State University Series Philosophy culture studies sociology
2025
A. Meleshchuk
Relevance of the Study. This paper addresses the enduring philosophical and cultural significance of the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness) within Zen Buddhism, highlighting its role as a distinctive alternative to Western metaphysical paradigms. In the context of growing scholarly interest in comparative philosophy and global Buddhist studies, revisiting the cultural transformations of śūnyatā in...
Studia Neoaristotelica
2025
Kateřina Kutarňová
The aim of the paper is to critically evaluate, from the perspective of a Teresian scholar, Christia Mercer’s claim that Teresa of Ávila’s Interior Castle must have had a substantial influence upon Descartes’ Meditations on the First Philosophy. The paper considers three major topics: (a) the distinction between meditation and contemplation which is crucial in Teresa’s thought and is also...
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Trends
2025
Prem Sukh, BR Sharma
The current study aims to present, the Dhyanyoga ideas found in the Yoga Upanishads, its philosophy, and as well as its techniques, which are beneficial to the modern life. A healthy lifestyle is essential for fruitful in both material and spiritual portions of life; the way to this success is delivered by the Upanishads, and the instrument to attain is Yoga. Upanishads discuss about Karma...
Journal of Sociology and Ethnology
2025
Yu Qian
: Using the phenomenological method to interpret and practice Buddhist thought, this approach focuses on explaining core concepts such as dependent origination and emptiness theory, and their deepening impact on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. It aims to establish a dialogue framework between phenomenology and Buddhist thought. Through literature review and theoretical comparison,...
2025
L. Krings
This book is the first to systematically explore the kata practice of the Japanese pathways arts as a philosophical discipline. Drawing on Buddhist sources, it develops a conception of practice that takes bodily postures and movement patterns not only as objects, but also as methods of inquiry. Through engagement with Zen meditation, breathing practice, tea ceremony, Nō theatre, and martial...
Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg
2025
I Dinakar, Rajesh B J.
The mind matter problem is an age old philosophical one which engaged the minds of scholars from the Vedic period through those of neuroscience of modern age and the quantum physicists in the 20th century. The vedic sages considered consciousness not only as primordial, but also universal and ubiquitous, causative of matter (reality in its various aspects). According to neuroscience...
2025
Eleni Lorandou
Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment. In an argument for the transcendence of limiting dualisms in thinking, she explores how western postmodernism and Indian classical thought can speak to one another across centuries,...
Open Mind
2025
Veena Kumari, Satyam Chauhan, Emmanuelle Peters
preprint
There is increased recognition of a need to better understand and explain non-ordinary experiences and spirituality at different levels and consider their potential implications and applications for improving mental health. An important question in this context is: Do individuals who report psychotic-like experiences (e.g., hear voices), but do not find them distressing and do not have a...