Journal of Medical Ethics
September 20, 2024
Vera Tesink, Thomas Douglas, Lisa Forsberg et al.
The possibility of neurotechnological interference with our brain and mind raises questions about the moral rights that would protect against the (mis)use of these technologies. One such moral right that has received recent attention is the right to mental integrity. Though the metaphysical boundaries of the mind are a matter of live debate, most defences of this moral right seem to assume an...
September 19, 2024
Philip Gerrans
Abstract The self is an avatar, a virtual entity, constructed by the brain to play the game of life. To control the organism the mind manipulates the avatar through the world. The avatar co-ordinates bodily, perceptual, sensorimotor, cognitive, and metacognitive processes in pursuit of the organism’s goals, the most basic of which is homeostatic maintenance. Other processes are layered over...
FLSF Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
September 19, 2024
Volkan Çi̇fteci̇
1 citation
Bu çalışmada, felsefe tarihi boyunca etkisini hissettiren idea ve doğa arasındaki ayrımın izlerini sürüyorum. Söz konusu ayrıma vurgu yaparak gerçeklik anlayışımızın, paradoksal bir şekilde, doğrudan erişilmesi olanaklı olmayan bir doğası olduğunu göstermeye çalışıyorum. Var olan birçok gerilimin nedeninin, idea ve doğa arasında süregelen ayrım olduğunu söylemek çok da yanlış olmaz. Daha en...
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
September 19, 2024
Krzysztof T. Konecki
1 citation
The paper investigates meditation as a state of consciousness that isolates an individual from the attitude of everyday life and the perspective of practical actions. It is an “ethnography of the mind” instead of the place. The paper analyses self-reports from meditators’ self-observations as part of hatha yoga practice and data from semi-structured interviews with hatha yoga teachers. Elements...
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
September 19, 2024
Gabriella Gobbi
7 citations
For 3000 years, psychedelics have been used in religious contexts to enhance spiritual thinking, well-being, and a sense of community. In the last few years, a renaissance in the use of psychedelic drugs for mental disorders has occurred in Western society; consequently, a pressing scientific need to elucidate the intricate mechanisms underlying their actions has arisen. Psychedelics mainly...
arXiv.org
September 18, 2024
Victoria Hoyle
preprint
This paper explores the hypothesis that the OpenAI-o1 model--a transformer-based AI trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)--displays characteristics of consciousness during its training and inference phases. Adopting functionalism, which argues that mental states are defined by their functional roles, we assess the possibility of AI consciousness. Drawing on theories...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 17, 2024
Adam W. Levin, Aryan Sarparast, Paul Nagib et al.
This study sought to identify patterns of psychedelic use among American psychiatrists, to compare the demographic variables across categories of social proximity and personal use, and to determine how these categories influenced psychiatrists' attitudes towards drugs and people who use drugs.Respondents (N = 180; mean age = 48.4 [SD = 16.2]; male = 65.5%; trainees = 24.1%) were recruited via...
حکمت صدرایی
September 13, 2024
Mahdi Homazadeh Abyaneh
This paper - in order to make a comparative study between Sadra’s theory and a new western theory about soul’s occurrence - first focuses on studying and explaining a new theory in philosophy of mind; called “Emergentism” by contemporary philosophers. The author distinguishes between two version of Emergentism: strong and weak, and describes two challenges against the strong version which have...
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry
September 13, 2024
Samir Chopra, Chris Letheby
Abstract Several authors have recently suggested that classic psychedelics might be safe and effective agents of moral enhancement. This raises the question: can we learn anything interesting about the nature of moral experience from a close examination of transformative psychedelic experiences? The interdisciplinary enterprise of philosophical psychopathology attempts to learn about the...
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry
September 13, 2024
Anna Ciaunica, Adam Safron
Abstract This chapter examines the feeling of ‘losing’ the sense of familiarity with one’s self and body in depersonalization and psychedelic experiences through an ‘active inference’ lens. It is suggested that psychedelic-induced experiences may involve a stance with radically altered prior expectations, providing opportunities for flexibly modulating self- and world models. Specifically,...