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October 20, 2026 Simon Goldstein, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
Abstract This chapter clears the ground for subsequent discussion of consciousness and sentience in AIs by addressing two methodological issues pertaining to the study of consciousness. First, it considers whether the study of consciousness presents specially intractable metaphysical difficulties, focusing on arguments against physicalism from the possibility of phenomenal zombies and the...
Healthcare October 20, 2026 Olivia Hill, Riley K Imlay, Ankit Chalia et al.
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is characterized by recurrent, involuntary episodes of crying or laughing that may be disproportionate or incongruent with an individual’s underlying mood. Although dextromethorphan/quinidine is FDA-approved for PBA, clinical experience with dextromethorphan/bupropion for this indication remains limited. We describe a 42-year-old woman with a history of resected right...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis October 20, 2026 Golnaz Baghdadi, Ali Motie Nasrabadi
Hypnosis is a unique state of consciousness marked by heightened response to suggestions, focused attention, and altered cognitive control. This article explores the neural connections involved in hypnosis through electroencephalography (EEG) studies, examining brain changes during hypnosis and their relationship to hypnotic depth and susceptibility. Theta waves, linked to hypnotic depth, are...
International Journal of Research in English October 20, 2026 Sachin Vaman Londhe, Somnath Panade
The paper explores Sri Aurobindo’s foundational work in spiritual poetics, The Word and the Spirit. It focuses on his idea of poetry as an alchemical and transformative manifestation of higher consciousness. Aurobindo’s theory, which has its roots in Tantric and Vedic metaphysics, reinterprets poetic language as a vehicle for supramental experience as opposed to merely an aesthetic construct....
October 20, 2026 Simon Goldstein, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
Abstract The recent successes of AI models have led to a resurgence of academic and popular interest in the question of what it would take for an AI to be conscious. A number of authors have recently suggested that it may be possible to construct conscious AIs in the near future. Existing work has tended to focus on supporting this claim by surveying the commitments of a wide range of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 20, 2026 Matthias Gruber preprint
First-person methods, micro-phenomenology included, cannot establish the structure of the minimal self. The minimal self is defined as pre-reflective: it is lived without being taken as an object. A report about it is a behavioural output, and producing that output requires the reporting system to represent its own state as an object, which is the reflective operation the minimal self is...
Acta Psychologica October 19, 2026 Javad Farshbaf-Zivari, Davoud Nodehi
People change and transform psychologically all the time. But what exactly changes? This inquiry is too vast to address. It is plausible to claim all intrapsychic changes in the human mind fall into one or a combination of these three: Cognition, Emotion, and Perception, plus in the realms of Conscious and Unconscious. Behavior is excluded because this study focuses on inner experiences rather...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research October 19, 2026 Parth Joshi, Shilpa Salve
Spiritual intelligence (SI) has been operationalised in several competing theoretical models, but no published instrument directly measures Robert Emmons' (2000) original five-component conceptualisation of transcendence, heightened states of consciousness, sanctification, spiritual problem-solving, and virtuous behaviour. The present study addressed this gap by developing and preliminarily...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 19, 2026 Roman Dudnikov preprint
This paper formulates a philosophical position called monophenomenalism. Its starting point is that everything that exists is a phenomenon, and that the phenomenon is one. Unity here does not mean the numerical unity of a single object or the denial of distinctions between things and events. It indicates a refusal to introduce, as a starting explanatory principle, a second ground established...
October 19, 2026 Joe Gough
Abstract This chapter considers philosophy of mind. It considers the significance of this book’s thesis for philosophy of mind. It focuses initially on the ‘mark of the mental’, the attempt to identifying the core feature of ‘mental’ phenomena, and the ‘mind–body problem’. It then aims to draw out some subtly dualistic assumptions that shape some areas of philosophy of mind, where explanations...