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Deep Bhattacharjee
Dream is the reflection of our unconscious mind when we are in deep slumber. The duration of dream varies from 14 sec - 40sec and are characterized by Rapid Eye Movement (REM). Dreams occur in the transition period from light sleep to deep sleep or from deep sleep to light sleep. The associated study of dreams is known as Oneirology. It is sometimes associated by physical bodily movement
Sepehrdad Rahimian preprint
The search for minimal neuronal requirements for consciousness rests on the premise that there exists a unique state of the human brain, the conscious state, that if one carefully excludes all the confounding cognitive functions, one will be able to isolate those regions that are involved in generating consciousness itself; nothing more, nothing less. I have argued elsewhere (Rahimian, 2021)...
Paul Dennison preprint
Most if not all research into consciousness in neuroscience and philosophy has dealt with the consciousness we all live within from birth, which in Dennison (2019) I termed the “human default sensory consciousness”. This was to contrast this mode to a quite different form of consciousness that develops in the Buddhist practice of jhāna meditation. This little known practice implicitly requires...
Shelley R. Upton, Tyler L. Renshaw preprint
Training in mindfulness has been shown to improve a variety of psychological disorders as well as physical conditions. Additionally, mindfulness training has been shown to reduce risk-taking behaviors following several weeks of training. Reducing risk-taking behaviors is of particular importance in regard to specific mental health problems, such as substance use and eating disorders. Many...
Gabriel Axel Montes, Ben Goertzel
The accelerating pace of development in artificial intelligence invokes fundamental questions regarding what constitutes a mind. Considering that AI has sprung from the cognitive enterprise of humanity and that there is the likely prospect of constructing some form of 'global brain', examining such questions may help to refine the conversation around AI and understand what might constitute a...
Michel Nguyen
The simulation hypothesis says that our world might be a computer-generated environment populated by simulated minds. Since Bostrom's [2003] "simulation argument," it has attracted attention in philosophy of mind and, increasingly, in the mind sciences. The simulation hypothesis says that our world might be a computer-generated environment populated by simulated minds, raising questions about...
Rolando Calero, Gerardo Herrera preprint
This article explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and consciousness through an integrated scientific and philosophical perspective. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal generative architectures, such as GPT-4, have intensified debates on whether artificial systems can transcend behavioral mimicry to approximate conscious awareness. Centered on the concept of...
Mike Sharman preprint
This paper presents a theoretical framework with which “subjective experience” may be described and operationalized. Despite being deeply relatable to people, accounts of subjective experience have struggled to establish investigative credibility owing to metaphysical misgivings and data quality concerns. The Subjective Experience (SE) Framework construes the phenomenon as a frame of reference...
Christian Matthias Kerskens preprint
Controversial hypotheses to explain consciousness exist in many fields of science, psychology and philosophy. Recent experimental findings in quantum cognition and magnetic resonance imaging have added new controversies to the field, suggesting that the mind may be based on quantum computing. Quantum computers process information in quantum bits (qubits) using quantum gates. At a first glance,...
Navjot Singh Gadda preprint
The Extended Mind Thesis holds that mental states are realized in extended physical systems and are not identical with processes occurring inside the brain. A central question raised by this hypothesis is how to model cognition within this extended framework. Here I propose that classical computation can't explain this extension and one rather needs a quantum mechanical description of cognition...