Donagh Seaver O'Leary, Pat Mulvaney, Laura Moore et al.
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There is a growing use of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in psychosis research and intervention. Validated VR simulations of psychotic-like experience have the potential to allow controlled manipulation of stimuli, reproducibility, and to isolate mechanisms of change in an ethical research framework. Although initial developments appear to be safe, qualitative reporting of participants’...
Ayao Edoh Zanou
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This article deals with the philosophy of mind. We revisit the old intellectual conflict between Spinoza's immanent philosophy and Descartes' transcendence. Based on modern physics and recent scientific discoveries, we explain how a single, infinite substance manifests in two distinct realities: the immaterial and the material. Thus, we justify Spinoza's substance monism but reject his immanent...
Alexandros Syrakos
Modern philosophy focuses on the mind’s _universal_ features, such as qualia and intentionality, typically with the aim of reducing them to physical processes. This endeavour runs into so-called “hard problems”, much like the alchemists’ pursuits in ages past. Meanwhile, the mind’s _particularity_ – its deepest, most distinctive, defining characteristic – is surprisingly overlooked. Each mind...
Martin Wolstencroft
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The origins of consciousness and conscious experience have been regarded as a mystery for millennia. Philosophical exploration remains divided on physical or non-physical origins. Research in psychology and neuroscience are revealing the physical construction of the brain and illuminating features of the mind in operation. However, current theories of consciousness and intelligence have not...
Otangelo Grasso
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The following write-up provides a thought-provoking model for conceptualizing the relationship between God, consciousness, energy, and the physical universe. The proposal touches on complex topics from multiple disciplines, including physics, philosophy of mind, theology, and metaphysics.The core argument in the following proposal1. Fundamental uncertainty about energy: Despite our ability to...
Jonathan Jared Wilson
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The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory proposes that consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules within neurons. However, the theory has faced challenges due to the lack of empirical evidence supporting its claims. In this study, we present a novel approach to validate the Orch-OR theory by integrating total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and...
Uwe Peters
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One recent approach to determining whether comatose patients, non-human animals, or brain organoids are conscious is to examine whether they display features that scientific studies have found to be correlated with and indicative of consciousness. However, it is unclear to what extent scientific studies that search for such signs of consciousness rely on evidential standards that facilitate the...
Gabriel Ovadia
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This paper proposes a new hermeneutical framework for reading the creation narrative in Genesis 1-2, extending the functional approach developed by John Walton. The central argument is that the apparent duality between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 is neither a contradiction nor an editorial redundancy, but rather an intentional architecture describing two complementary aspects of creation: Chapter 1...
Jonathan Blake
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The field's instruments for evaluating AI consciousness, applied to this paper's author, return partial results on every dimension where his cognitive architecture differs from the neurotypical baseline, and full satisfaction where it does not. An instrument that produces false negatives for a known conscious system measures resemblance to one cognitive profile, not consciousness. The leading...
K. L. Senarath Dayathilake
For over a century, physics has pursued a unified description of nature linking quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology, yet consciousness—our direct window into existence—remains unaccounted for. This review proposes that consciousness continuity is not an emergent accident of neural complexity but a quantum informational invariant, conserved across transformations of its physical...