Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Vladimir Filoverum
preprint
This paper develops a two-level proposal concerning consciousness. At the functional level, affective states may integrate heterogeneous information about bodily condition, goals, learned values, and anticipated outcomes, thereby influencing action selection and the generation of new goals. At the ontological level, the paper considers a stronger hypothesis inspired by verumika: that subjective...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Henri Baskorvil
preprint
The first part of this study argued that a human self is best understood as an organised information pattern, that the Hard Problem of consciousness leaves the fate of subjective experience at death formally undecided, and that epistemic agnosticism is the honest response. This second part examines that gesture in detail through quantum mechanics—unitarity, many worlds, decoherence, and quantum...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Maria Kamecka
preprint
How do we recognise the voice in our head as our own, and what changes when it feels as though someone else is speaking? This conceptual paper explores the relationship between inner speech, auditory imagery, dreaming and voice-hearing, drawing on neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind. It examines how agency, ownership, speaker identity and source attribution contribute to our...
iScience
October 17, 2026
Annika Hense, Antje Peters, Torge Dellert et al.
Summary: Conscious visual phenomenology comprises multiple representational levels, from basic features to integrated percepts, raising the question of how the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) differentiate accordingly. Event-related potential (ERP) studies identified early occipitotemporal negativities as reliable NCC; yet, it remains unclear whether these capture conscious content...
World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
October 16, 2026
2Dr. Suman Sarkar *1Dr. Mukesh Kumar
preprint
Background: The clinical apparatus of Ayurveda is commonly understood through the lens of Laukiki Cikitsa (worldly therapeutics), which works primarily to restore bio-humoral equilibrium using pharmacological substances (Yuktipavyapasraya), spiritual rituals (Daivavyapasraya), and disciplined mental restraint (Sattvavajaya). Nevertheless, the foundational tantrakaras recognized that therapeutic...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
October 16, 2026
Drew Leder, Kevin Aho
Illness is often understood as a disruption of ordinary temporality, fracturing narrative continuity, constricting horizons of possibility, and immersing sufferers in the slow, uncertain rhythms of waiting. Drawing on phenomenology, existential philosophy, pathography, and East Asian wisdom traditions, this article examines the relationship between growing ill and growing still, being a patient...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
2*Dr. Suman Sarkar 1Dr. Mukesh Kumar
preprint
Cartesian dualism has historically kept mental and physical ailments in rigid silos, creating persistent bottlenecks in conventional clinical approaches to psychosomatic disorders. Classical Indian philosophical traditions (darsanas), conversely, resolved this split at the foundation itself by treating the psyche and the soma as a single, interdependent continuum. This paper highlights how the...
Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
October 16, 2026
Albin Grataloup, Angélique Remacle
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness characterized by focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with therapeutic applications in a range of mental and somatic conditions. While prior research has emphasized the linguistic content of hypnotic suggestions (ie, what is said), the paralinguistic and acoustic characteristics of the hypnotist's speech (ie, how it is said) remain...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 16, 2026
Janis Karan Hesse, Frank F Lanfranchi, Conor McGrory et al.
preprint
Summary The neural correlates of consciousness remain elusive 1 . Previous studies found that high-level visual cortex is weakly modulated by conscious perception 2,3 , yet a pure signal of conscious perception has not been found anywhere in the brain. Here, we employed Neuropixels recordings across multiple face patches in inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex during a binocular flash...
Journal of Literature and Humanities
October 16, 2026
Fatima Koç, Ahmet Dağ
This study aims to systematically examine the fundamental concepts of Edmund Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. Husserl developed an original method in 20th-century philosophy, thereby reestablishing the structure of consciousness and the subject-object relationship. This reestablishment effort takes shape particularly through his critique of naturalism and psychologism. In this context,...