Erez Ashkenazi
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This paper examines whether Gödel's incompleteness theorems undermine the possibility of constructing an immanent philosophical system-one that is selfgrounding and requires no external foundation. Taking Spinoza's Ethics as the paradigmatic case, the paper distinguishes three levels at which the question can be posed: ontological immanence (Substance as causa sui), epistemic immanence (truth...
Prabin Kumar
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This research proposes that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter, but the originating force behind all phenomenaphysical, chemical, biological, and informational. This theory challenges conventional hierarchies in scientific disciplines and presents a unifying interpretation where consciousness = energy = mass = time-space. Continuation & Elaboration Building upon foundational quantum and...
Dr. Srivas Krishna Das Brahmacari
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The fascinating exploration of quantum physics and its interconnectedness with consciousness has been a topic of great interest for scientists, researchers, and philosophers alike. Quantum physics, a branch of physics that deals with the behaviour of particles at the smallest scales, has revealed profound insights into the nature of reality, challenging our conventional understanding of space,...
George Fejer, Till Holzapfel, Taru Hirvonen et al.
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Abstract Breath-based interactions in virtual reality typically map breathing onto discrete visual objects or physiological proxies. Viscereality instead translates respiratory state into a surrounding particle field, mapping lung volume onto external space so that inhalation expands the environment and exhalation contracts it. Because particle fields have no fixed boundary, they can convey...
Pamela Venerdrow Lucas, Michelle Fauver
ObjectiveThis qualitative study examined the creation stories from a cross-section of cultures and traditions to determine whether there are important similarities. MethodsThematic analysis was conducted with 15 creation stories from 11 traditions. Initial coding was reviewed to develop themes, which were then recursively applied to the stories to find further examples and refine definitions....
Renzo Carlo Lanfranco
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Why do some sensory signals enter conscious experience while others influence behaviour without being consciously seen, heard, or felt? Research on perceptual awareness typically combines objective decisions with reports of awareness, visual clarity, confidence, or some subset of these measures, yet these outcomes are usually analysed separately. We argue that perceptual awareness can instead...
Jeremy I Skipper, Christopher Timmermann, Rosalind McAlpine et al.
Consciousness is often studied by asking whether particular brain regions or systems are privileged. We tested a distributed, decentred and context-sensitive alternative using 579 consciousness-focused neuroimaging studies. Semantic clustering of titles and abstracts identified seven domains whose corrected meta-analytic maps showed limited overlap and no invariant cross-domain core. These maps...
Jesús Isaac Castillo-Sánchez
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Abstract The COMP006 Phase 3 trial showed that 39% of patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) respond to a single 25 mg dose of psilocybin, while 61% do not — at identical dose, protocol, and pharmacological exposure. No mechanistic explanation for this heterogeneity has been established. Here we propose and validate a two-threshold model in which the psilocybin dose-response...
Nadine Meertens
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Efforts to understand animal abilities face longstanding conceptual and methodological challenges, especially regarding cognition and consciousness. Awareness has largely suffered a similar fate, having been subsumed into these discussions rather than examined on its own merit. This paper asks what it means to be aware. The proposal is to understand it as an organism’s abilities to selectively...
Edervaldo José de Souza Melo
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Consciousness remains one of the most persistent problems in philosophy and cognitive science. Despite substantial advances in neuroscience, no consensus exists regarding how physical processes give rise to subjective experience. This paper proposes an evolutionary hypothesis according to which consciousness emerges from the interaction of three fundamental dimensions: neural integration of...