Neuroscience of Consciousness
September 5, 2026
Abstract: Mindfulness has established psychological benefits, such as stress reduction and emotional regulation; however, the underlying computational mechanisms, particularly in relation to mind-wandering, remain unclear. This study aimed to present a hierarchical recurrent neural network-based agent model grounded in the free energy principle to explore these processes within the framework of...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
September 5, 2026
Rakesh Kumar Mahajan
The final, most advanced layer of Patanjali?s Ashtanga architecture addresses the master control system-the mind. Comprising Dharana (focused concentration), Dhyana (sustained meditation), and ultimately Samadhi (complete cognitive integration and absorption), these cognitive disciplines culminate in Chitta Vritti Nirodhah-the complete cessation of mental fluctuations. When the mind achieves...
September 5, 2026
Maurício Viotti Daker
BACKGROUND: The schizoidism-syntony dyad offers a good start for a comprehensive view of psychopathology. Rooted in schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness in Kretschmer's characterology, these concepts gained prominence, under Bleuler and Minkowski, as expressions of personal relational patterns to the environment. SUMMARY: It seems insightful, therefore, to compare the concepts to the...
Religions
September 4, 2026
S. Cook
Walter Brueggemann’s account of prophetic imagination has illuminated how Israel’s prophets contest dominant cultural assumptions by evoking an alternative consciousness. This essay explores the dynamics behind the prophet’s capacity to perceive and proclaim such an alternative. Through close readings of Zechariah’s first two night visions (Zech 1:7–21), informed by form-critical study of...
Al-Mada Jurnal Agama Sosial dan Budaya
September 4, 2026
Ahmad Fawaid, Muhammad Najib
The Qur’anic concept of rūḥ remains a central yet epistemologically complex issue in Islamic thought because it concerns life, consciousness, morality, and transcendence while exceeding complete human understanding. This study develops an integrative conceptual model of rūḥ by bringing scientific Qur’anic exegesis into dialogue with Robert Frager’s transpersonal psychology. A qualitative...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
September 4, 2026
Wanhong Huang
Accounts of subjectivity frequently assign central roles to sociality, recognition, attachment, language, and interpersonal relations. A substantial psychological literature also supports the importance of stable social bonds for well-being and health. This paper accepts those findings as important constraints and asks a narrower conceptual question: once a subject has already acquired...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
September 4, 2026
Lisa Anne van den Beld
This dissertation investigated autonomic physiological correlates of two fundamental experiential states: presence and absence. Presence was defined as self-regulated attention to present-moment experience, which is the first component of mindfulness. Absence was defined as a lack of such attention, encompassed by the state of mindlessness or dearth of mindful awareness to the moment. Guided by...
Culture & Psychology
September 4, 2026
Lea Loncar, Charlotte Fiskum
The Indian concept of Jīvanmukti - liberation while living - offers a critical challenge to dominant psychological models centred on ego integration, identity coherence, and performance. Drawing on cultural psychology, phenomenology, and classical Indian philosophy, this article examines how experiences of altered selfhood may be understood either as pathological dissociation within clinical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 4, 2026
Elena Ryss
preprint
A prominent view in cognitive science and philosophy of mind holds that consciousness is metacognition—that subjective experience is reducible to the brain monitoring, evaluating, and commenting on its own operations. This article challenges that claim. We argue that qualia—the elementary, irreducible qualities of lived experience—are fundamentally distinct from metacognition, which is...
September 4, 2026
Patxi Elosegi, Pietro Amerio, Ning Mei et al.
preprint
A central challenge in consciousness research is to dissociate perception from awareness using rigorous, bias-free methods. Traditional approaches often suffer from two key limitations: the criterion biases in reporting perceptual (un)awareness, and the criterion content fallacy, where awareness measures do not capture the specific information required to perform the perceptual task. These...