Ramin Bidari
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Emotions are one of the fundamental aspects of human experience, influencing behavior, decision-making, and overall quality of life. This study examines how emotions are encoded in the brain through hormonal processes and whether consciousness can modify these hormonal effects. Scientific research indicates that neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, cortisol, and oxytocin play crucial...
Ramin Bidari
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This article explores the concept of the mind as a cognitive illusion generated by the brain, challenging conventional perspectives that regard it as an independent entity. By integrating insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and spirituality, the paper examines the relationship between the brain and consciousness, arguing that true awareness exists beyond neural activity. It delves into how...
Gaurav Sharma
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This paper proposes a theoretical bridge between three domains that have never been formally connected in the literature on human development, consciousness studies, or philosophy of mind: contemporary physics of information (Wheeler, 1990; Tegmark, 2014; Bostrom, 2003), five-thousand years of convergent contemplative evidence (as reviewed in Paper 2 of this series), and the Grow Your Scope™...
Syeda Arifa Tasneem, Kennedy Andrew Thomas, Neeraj Panwar
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Abstract Mindfulness Based Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (MBDBT) training is a latest advancement in terms of mindfulness based interventions. The MBDBT training focuses on helping the clients learn a set of skills, including - how to observe their experiences, describe the same using verbal labels and be fully present in the moment, as well as in their actions without feeling self-conscious....
Carlos Federico Obregon Diaz
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This paper develops a stratified ontological and phenomenological reconstruction of mindfulness and mentalization within the broader framework of the Psychology of Belonging. While contemporary psychotherapy frequently treats mindfulness and mentalization as foundational mechanisms of psychological change, this article argues that both are late-stage processes whose effectiveness depends on...
Yong Shi
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This study builds Relational Mind Theory, a social-contextual theory of inner consciousness which seeks to account for how the nature of interactions with others, the structure of relationship networks, one’s institutional belonging, and the nature of digitally-mediated interaction influence one’s felt organization of thought, self-awareness, and emotional meaning. The main goal is to transcend...
Tom Froese, Matthieu Koroma
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In this interview, Tom Froese and Matthieu Koroma address the irruption theory, an account of how mental actions manifest themselves as unexplained variability in brain and bodily activity. We discuss how this approach can be applied to trace back consciousness in (neuro)physiological signatures such as scale free activity and informational complexity. We highlight the study of altered states...
Shaban Aslam
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Consciousness remains one of the most difficult questions in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Although neuroscience has made important progress in identifying brain processes associated with conscious states, there is still no clear explanation of how subjective experience itself arises. Most current theories assume that consciousness is produced by the brain, yet these approaches...
Fisseha Huluka, Peace Tamire
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We present the Consciousness and Intelligence Sector of the Unified Φ-Field Theory (UPT). Starting from the same two axioms that govern the physics sector—the holographic principle and local Weyl-scale invariance—we specialise the Master Φ-Scaling Equation to the effective dimension D = 2 of the retinotopic cortical screen. On this screen the universal scaling exponent collapses identically to...
Prasad Kaipa
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Artificial intelligence should be examined not only as a technology humans build, but as an environment humans increasingly inhabit. This reframing is the organizing claim of this paper. Contemporary AI systems demonstrate extraordinary capability in language, reasoning, and problem-solving, yet these advances leave open questions about consciousness, discernment, and human flourishing that...