Addictive Behaviors Reports
December 1, 2022
Claire A Walsh, Ofir Livne, Dvora Shmulewitz et al.
34 citations
Information on time trends in use of different plant-based hallucinogens is lacking. The current study used nationally representative U.S. data to assess overall and age-specific time trends in the prevalence of lifetime and 12-month use of plant-based hallucinogens and dissociative agents. Participants were respondents aged ≥ 12 years (N = 1,006,051) from the National Survey on Drug Use and...
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
November 30, 2022
Tennyson Samraj
Metaphysics deals with the intelligible world of questions and the explicable world of intentionality. Metaphysics is explicable, and its explicability is connected to questions related to what there is to know about the nature of reality. While physics deals with what is and what else there is, metaphysics deals with the nature of reality and what else there is to know about the nature of...
Philosophy Journal
November 29, 2022
Igor F. Mikhailov
The paper critically examines some theses from A.V. Smirnov’s monograph ‘The Logic of Meaning as a Philosophy of Consciousness: An Invitation to Reflection’. In particular, the statement about the inability of cognitive sciences to exhaustively explain consciousness because of its de-subjectivation within their framework. It is shown that cognitive sciences are generally able to cope with the...
ATLA Summary of Proceedings
November 26, 2022
Alexis Weiss
1 citation
Originating in pre-Buddhist times and present in the teachings of several yogic traditions of India, the cultivation of the four immeasurable qualities (Brahmavihara or Apramana) is taught as essential across Buddhist traditions. These qualities—loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative/sympathetic joy, and equanimity—are practiced as heart meditations, companions to mindfulness and insight....
November 26, 2022
Fangfang Li, Xiaojie Zhang
1 citation
preprint
How the mind works is the ultimate mystery for human beings. To answer this question, one of the most significant insights is Kant’s argument that we can only perceive phenomena but not the essence of the external world. Following this idea, we formulated a novel computational framework to model the mind based on two assumptions: 1) The mind doesn’t assume the existence of the external...
November 25, 2022
Péter Simor, Philippe Peigneux, Róbert Bódizs
1 citation
preprint
Dreams are often viewed as fascinating but relatively irrelevant mental epihenomena of the sleeping mind with questionable or no functional relevance. Despite long hours of oneiric activity, and high individual differences in dream recall, dream amnesia is one of the most robust and universal features of dreaming. In this review, we conceptualize dreaming and dream amnesia as inherent aspects...
Science and Engineering Ethics
November 25, 2022
Bartlomiej Chomanski
It might become possible to build artificial minds with the capacity for experience. This raises a plethora of ethical issues, explored, among others, in the context of whole brain emulations (WBE). In this paper, I will take up the problem of vulnerability - given, for various reasons, less attention in the literature - that the conscious emulations will likely exhibit. Specifically, I will...
Phenomenalism
November 24, 2022
Michael Pelczar
Abstract: Chapter 8 offers a phenomenalist perspective on the problem of consciousness, arguing that phenomenalism faciliates a more satisfying view of the relationship between mind and body than we can obtain on any other terms.
Neurology and Neurobiology
November 24, 2022
Berenika Maciejewicz
2 citations
Background: It is uncommon for dreamers to be aware of their dreaming status while being inside their own dream. Yet, it is possible to become mindful and conscious of the fact that one is dreaming. This fairly rare phenomenon is called lucid dreaming. Cognitive functions are preserved while sleeping, and in the case of trained and experienced lucid dreamers, this also permits them to manage...
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
November 24, 2022
Adam Safron
32 citations
Integrated world modeling theory (IWMT) is a synthetic theory of consciousness that uses the free energy principle and active inference (FEP-AI) framework to combine insights from integrated information theory (IIT) and global neuronal workspace theory (GNWT). Here, I first review philosophical principles and neural systems contributing to IWMT's integrative perspective. I then go on to...