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This paper offers a critical response to Frank Zindler's 1984 essay "Religion, Hypnosis, and Music: An Evolutionary Perspective." Zindler proposes that religious experience is a neurobiological byproduct of hypnotic suggestibility and musical stimulation-an adaptive illusion rather than a valid epistemic framework. While acknowledging Zindler's historical context and intellectual sincerity,...
Iftikhar Mahmud preprint
This paper develops an integrated model of human consciousness and moral cognition grounded in Islamic anthropology. Drawing on the Qur’an, authenticated prophetic traditions, and classical Islamic scholarship, the study synthesizes key concepts—including rūḥ (divine life-principle), fiṭrah (innate moral orientation), nafs (impulse-bearing self), qalb (locus of moral awareness), and ʿaql...
Shruthi Sukhadev Jarali preprint
The model of mind learning should encompass all variations of adaptive processes in humans and other advanced animals. This study introduces a biological classification of learning that delineates the nature of mind learning through emotions and intelligence. It posits that learning and emotions can be classified into one of three levels: conscious, subconscious, and unconscious which is guided...
Jordan Elias preprint
The Perfected Taoist Mind in Chuang Tzu's Radical Mysticism; Yale College, 1997. Chuang Tzu's very strangeness sheds light on the normal. He questions not just conventional presumptions but also the thinking processes which lead to everyday conclusions.
Shawn Prest preprint
Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception and more pleasant experience. However, the computational mechanisms underlying such meditative “deconstruction” are not well understood, with no formal computational models available to explicate how deconstruction alters perception and action during...
Yaoharee Lahtee preprint
Why internal information processing should ever be accompanied by phenomenal experience remains one of the central questions in philosophy of mind. Yet the hard problem is often posed in a form so broad that it obscures distinctions that matter theoretically. This article develops a constraint-based approach intended to sharpen that terrain. Rather than attempting to derive consciousness...
Suresh Kumar.S preprint
The computational mind approach was conforming to neural models of material mind based on theories like Neural Correlates of Consciousness. Thinkers like Chalmers posed the Hard Problem of consciousness arguing on the theme of an extended mind going beyond the brain. Gödel incompleteness theorem, called into question the power of mathematics to explain all of reality — along with the hypothesis...
George Deane, Daphne Demekas preprint
Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) refers to the simplest form of conscious experience, characterized by the absence of time, self, and sensory content, where only pure awareness or consciousness remains. In this paper, we present a computational neurophenomenological account of minimal phenomenal experience within the active inference framework. We propose a generative mechanism that allows...
Jonas Mago, Shamil Chandaria preprint
Minimal Phenomenal Experiences (MPEs) present a paradox for theories of consciousness.Defined by phenomenological simplicity, they are nonetheless accompanied by unexpectedly highneural signal diversity. Traditionally, entropy has been interpreted as a marker ofphenomenological richness, exemplified by psychedelic states. Yet MPEs such as advancedabsorptive meditation (jhāna) or 5-MeO-DMT...
Camilo Libedinsky preprint
This paper presents an extension of the "neural replay thought experiment" as a heuristic tool for probing the reader’s implicit assumptions regarding the relationship between physical and mental phenomena. By systematically varying the physical instantiation of a recorded neural activity pattern, we aim to elicit divergent intuitions about the persistence of consciousness and intelligence. The...