Nicola De Pisapia, Maria Laura Mencaroni, Giulio Velardo et al.
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Rhythmic auditory stimulation has long been used across cultures to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC), yet its phenomenological and physiological correlates remain incompletely characterized under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we investigated whether drumming-derived rhythmic auditory stimulation reliably induces ASC and how stimulus structure and individual expertise shape...
Iftikhar Mahmud
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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...
Dr. Jatindranath Gain
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The majority of quantum mechanics' founding fathers were sensitive to the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. The theories of relativity developed by Einstein also turned out to have philosophical implications. Although quantum physics could seem enigmatic, it explains everything in our environment, whether we are aware of it or not. Using the abilities of quantum physics results...
Shruthi Sukhadev Jarali
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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...
Sebastião Burnay
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This thesis establishes that the most widely used frameworks for human development today (from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to the capability approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, all based on philosophical foundations that relegate the inner life of human beings to a secondary level) can accommodate ‘pure awareness’ conceptually but not at the deeper paradigmatic level, where...
Seyed Kazem Mousavi
Self-awareness results from consciousness of existence in time and space. Thought and consciousness are distinguishing factors between humans and machines having artificial intelligence. No algorithm has been offered for artificial self-awareness based on thinking. Previous studies have not studied the relationship between consciousness, thinking, and time. This study examined the relationship...
James X. Li
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Contemporary cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and computationalism remain tethered to cumulative-inductionist paradigms-the foundational assumption that phenomenal consciousness and higher-order cognition are linear, emergent properties of increasingly complex biological hardware accumulated over temporal gradients. This paper challenges this dominant framework by separating...
Arvind Vyas
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This paper examines the extent to which functional criteria derived from biological evidence and major theories of consciousness can be applied to non-human animals, plants, artificial systems, collective organizations, and ultimately the universe. Through conceptual-comparative analysis, it organizes system-wide availability, selfmodeling, sensorimotor grounding, affective valuation, memory,...
Yaoharee Lahtee
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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...
Diwank Singh Tomer
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We propose Intrinsic Quality Theory (IQT), a framework identifying phenomenal quality with the intrinsic physical state of bounded spacetime regions. Unlike functionalist theories, treats quality as an identity, not an emergent property of information processing. We formalize this using Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (AQFT) on causal sets, defining a region’s quality as the pair of local...