PsyArXiv Preprints
October 20, 2026
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Much of our current understanding of inner speech – including much of what is presented in Kompa’s Language, Cognition, and the Way We Think – hinges on it being both pervasive in and important for cognition, with the two often being linked. As the argument goes: if inner speech is ubiquitous, it must be important, and if inner speech is important, everybody must have it. However, the...
Philosophy Study
October 20, 2026
Paul C. Mocombe
Since the 1960s, with the advent of postmodern and poststructural theories—with their emphasis on Parole—into the theoretical discourses of social science academics, a new struggle regarding the origins and nature of identity and consciousness has dominated social science and philosophical theories. The issue centers on several factors raised by postmodern and poststructural thinkers in the...
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
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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...
OSF Preprints
October 19, 2026
Graziella Chiara Prezzavento, Pasquale Caponnetto, Franziska Sophia Miegel et al.
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This project investigates the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of using immersive virtual reality (VR) to simulate psychedelic-like experiences in adults with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is a chronic and impairing condition characterised by intrusive thoughts, repetitive behaviours, and marked cognitive and behavioural rigidity. A substantial proportion of patients experience...
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...