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April 14, 2022 Marcin Fabjański
Respect for nature is an initial condition to strengthen our relationship with it. When this is done, our metaphysical perception changes, as well as our moral attitude: we see ourselves as co-dependent with the process of life. This, in turn, results in the discovery of the same intelligence acting in the environment and within us. This perspective can be called onto-ethical, as it transforms...
Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind April 13, 2022 Guy Dove
Abstract This chapter critically examines the empirical support for embodied and grounded cognition. The evidence typically cited in this context characteristically involves concrete concepts and implicates perception and action systems in their processing. Rehearsing this evidence has become something of a touchstone in the field of embodied cognition—papers regularly begin with a quick...
April 13, 2022 Guy Dove
Abstract Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. In order to think about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the dogs, and how we are going to survive our next visit with our family, we need to know something about locations, keys, cooking, dogs, survival, families, and so on. Researchers have sought to explain...
Molecules April 13, 2022 Henry Lowe, Ngeh J. Toyang, Blair Steele et al. 53 citations
The word “psychedelic” (psyche (i.e., the mind or soul) and delos (i.e., to show)) has Greek origin and was first coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956, who had been conducting research on lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) at the time. Psychedelic drugs such as N,N-DMT/DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), 5-MeO-DMT (5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine), LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), MDMA...
arXiv Preprint Archive April 11, 2022 Jacob Jolij preprint
Panpsychism is a solution to the mind-body problem that presumes that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality instead of a product or consequence of physical processes (i.e., brain activity). Panpsychism is an elegant solution to the mind-body problem: it effectively rids itself of the explanatory gap materialist theories of consciousness suffer from. However, many theorists and...
Metta: Jurnal Ilmu Multidisiplin April 10, 2022 I Komang Ramadi Putra
This study aims to find the internalization of the value of loving-kindness through light meditation in the light meditation program at the Sai Study Group Mahendrata. The method used in this research is qualitative with a descriptive approach with the method of determining the informants in this study is purposive sampling. Data collection methods in this study were observation, interviews and...
Digital Archive @ GSU April 8, 2022 Amber L Estlund
American literature has an established history of interrogating subjective experience and what it means to be a person. As a result, American writers have a produced a pattern of thought that expresses a fascination with both the possibilities and devastating consequences that attend to competing visions of the self. This dissertation explores various attempts to theorize and tolerate...
Dev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal April 5, 2022 Maureen P. Hall, Mary Keator
There is a saying, “There is nothing new under the sun.” While that may be true, what is also true is that there is a newness in combining approaches that already exist into something dynamic and extraordinary. Our work with lectio divina evidences this dynamism. We take the monastic contemplative practice of lectio divina from the West and stitch it together with the Eastern emphasis on...
Dev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal April 5, 2022 Maureen P. Hall, Balram Singh, Aminda J. O’hare et al.
This study investigated changes in student self-awareness in a newly developed science course, The Science of Kriyayoga, which is a part of the Indic Studies minor at a medium size public university. Students enrolled in this course learned and practiced Kriyayoga techniques twice a week, over 15 weeks. Kriyayoga, a form of contemplative practice, emphasizes an anchoring and habitation in the...
bioRxiv Preprint Server April 3, 2022 Andrew Adamatzky, Jordi Vallverdu, Antoni Gandia et al. 4 citations preprint
Fungal organisms can perceive the outer world in a way similar to what animals sense. Does that mean that they have full awareness of their environment and themselves? Is a fungus a conscious entity? In laboratory experiments we found that fungi produce patterns of electrical activity, similar to neurons. There are low and high frequency oscillations and convoys of spike trains. The neural-like...