PsyArXiv Preprints
October 22, 2026
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Background: Subjective experiences featuring altered self-awareness, temporal perception, or spatial boundaries—termed Non-Ordinary Experiences (NOEs)—occur across clinical neurology, psychiatry, and psychedelic medicine, including in insular ecstatic seizures, meditation, breathwork, hypnosis, and psychedelic therapy. Objective: To synthesize neurobiological and clinical literature on NOEs for...
Topoi
October 22, 2026
Paul Richard Smart
Abstract Debates about the extended mind and extended cognition typically focus on the boundaries of cognitive processes and the mechanisms responsible for their realization. This paper develops a different perspective, one that foregrounds the role of dispositional properties such as beliefs, capacities, and abilities. According to the dispositional hypothesis, cases of cognitive extension...
Schizophrenia Research
October 22, 2026
Rosa Beño-ruiz de la Sierra, Antonio Arjona, Emma Osorio-Iriarte et al.
Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) are a core feature of psychotic disorders and reflect disturbances in ipseity. Impairments in corollary discharge mechanism have been proposed as a neurobiological substrate of ASEs, and an imbalance between brain network integration and segregation, may impair the coherent flow of mental contents, thereby disrupting their fluid and implicit character. However,...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 22, 2026
Gianluca Gaglioti, Anna Cattani, Thierry Ralph Nieus et al.
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Complexity, commonly defined as the coexistence of integration and differentiation, is a fundamental property of thalamocortical networks and is regarded as a prerequisite for adaptive brain function and consciousness. A variety of metrics have been developed to estimate neural complexity from recorded activity and are increasingly employed in both research and clinical settings. Yet, the...
Pravacana
October 22, 2026
Karapikkada Sobhitha
Within the Theravāda philosophical tradition, the concept of bhavaṅga citta has emerged as a significant doctrinal development that received extensive attention in later scholastic discussions. Although explicit references to bhavaṅga citta are not found in early Buddhist teachings, its conceptual foundations can be identified in implicit forms within the Sutta literature. Building upon these...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 21, 2026
Terrence W. Deacon, Miguel Garcia-Valdecasas, Michael Jacob
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Most neuroscientific accounts of consciousness assume that conscious experience is constituted by the information conveyed between neurons. The physical-chemical details of the metabolic and physiological processes that convey this information are correspondingly presumed to be relevant only insofar as they support the organization of information processes. We describe an alternative...
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Stefano Micali
Within the phenomenological tradition, few experiences have received as much sustained attention as religious experience. Among its various forms, prayer occupies a central place. This chapter interprets Christian prayer as a limit experience par excellence . The limit concerns the complex relation between possibility and impossibility. Prayer is inhabited by different senses of the impossible,...
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Andreas Gonçalves Lind
Marion’s phenomenology reveals a notion of truth that contrasts with the Greek concept of alētheia , where truth is unveiled through the subject’s faculties. Instead, Marion conceives of truth as a manifestation from elsewhere, reminiscent of biblical apocalypses . Here, truth surpasses the subject’s capacities, highlighting a profound disproportion between what is revealed and what can be...
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Valeria Bizzari
If you look for a detailed phenomenological analysis of peculiar kinds of quasi-imaginative experiences—such as dreaming—you will be disappointed by the fact that there is no systematic account of this phenomenon and its related forms. The aim of this chapter is therefore to sketch a phenomenology of the dream in what seem to be its most important features. To do this, I will mainly follow two...
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
October 21, 2026
Tommaso Mapelli
This article aims to show that Giovanni Piana’s work provides a valuable and coherent outline for a phenomenology of the unconscious. After a necessary introduction to the topic as it appears in Piana’s writings, the analysis develops along three main lines of inquiry. First, Piana’s account of the structure of consciousness is reconstructed, highlighting its critical distance from the Freudian...