The Problem of "The World"
October 7, 2026
Avner Baz
Abstract: Still focusing on magnitudes, this chapter extends the transcendental idealist argument to the level of pre-objective perceptual experience. Following Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, it argues that ‘the phenomenal world’—the world as perceived and responded to, or engaged with, prior to becoming (if and when it does) the object of true or false representations—makes essential reference...
International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management
October 7, 2026
Aditi Mishra, Vibha Goyal, Ankush Gautam
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has created relationships that are not adequately described as merely functional interactions between users and tools. Conversational systems, social robots and autonomous agents can be trusted, loved, relied upon and even moralized. Questions arise here about the nature of consciousness, about a psychological foundation...
Open Access at Essex
October 7, 2026
Rohan J Naidoo
This research addresses the central complex of how the relationship between the sacred and sexual is problematised and plays out over the course of individuation. Jung articulated it as core to his relationship with Freud breaking down, describing a split between the secular (which becomes sexualised) and the spiritual (which becomes desexualised). Such a division can be understood, via a...
October 7, 2026
Zefan Zheng, João Pedro Parreira Rodrigues, Lukas Kob et al.
preprint
Consciousness science has traditionally proceeded by contrasting neural activity when a stimulus is consciously perceived against activity when the same stimulus is not perceived. This contrastive approach is well suited to locating neural correlates of consciousness, but it says little about why an experience has the particular character it does. A recent structural turn addresses this gap by...
Pedagogy Culture and Society
October 7, 2026
Martin Harant
Debates on mindfulness in education often oscillate between therapeutic affirmation and ideological critique while largely neglecting questions of epistemic and normative justification. This article develops an alternative framework grounded in analytic philosophy of education. Drawing on Metzinger’s (2024) account of mindfulness as epistemic openness, Bowell, Cowan, and Kemp's (2020) critical...
Determinations in nanomedicine & nanotechnology.
October 6, 2026
Pavle Vesic
Modern science faces a profound ontological and formal fragmentation between quantum field physics, the biophysics of self-organizing systems, and theories of consciousness.This paper proposes the Charge Neutralization Process (CNP) as a unified, fundamental generative principle that bridges these domains.Framed through Hestenes' Spacetime Algebra (Cl 1,3 ) and the Zitterbewegung (ZBW) model,...
Open Science Framework
October 6, 2026
Brian Harbord
preprint
Near-death experiences (NDEs) occasionally include claims of veridical perception — accurate information about the physical environment obtained from a reported out-of-body vantage point, ostensibly without ordinary sensory access. The largest attempt to test this directly (the AWARE I/II studies) placed hidden visual targets, visible only from a ceiling-level vantage point, in resuscitation...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
October 6, 2026
Robert A. King
The out-of-body experience (OBE) is a state of altered consciousness in which one has the impression of being consciously outside of the physical body either somewhere on Earth (often, but not always, in the vicinity of the physical body) or in some transcendental location (having ventured into some otherworldly place distinct from the Earth). Some OBEs are known to occur in association with a...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
October 6, 2026
Rebecka Malm
Ego dissolution (ED; a temporary disruption of self-boundaries and personal identity) is a central feature of many altered states of consciousness. With the resurgence of psychedelic research, these experiences have become of growing clinical relevance, as they can evoke both profound therapeutic transformation and significant psychological destabilization. This conceptual paper reviews the...
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
October 6, 2026
Chad Collyer, Gia Han Le, Maryam Hassan et al.
Short-acting tryptamine psychedelics are emerging as candidate psychiatric therapeutics with pharmacological profiles that may offer practical advantages over longer-acting psychedelics. N,N-dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) differ in pharmacokinetic, receptor, and phenomenological properties, while zalsupindole is a putatively non-hallucinogenic...