Brain Communications
September 3, 2026
Desirée Conti, Tommaso Accinni, Alice Teghil et al.
Abstract Visual awareness includes the ability to distinguish internally generated sensory experience from veridical percepts derived from the external world. Visual hallucinations (VH) are an example of internally generated experience with important clinical implications and are common in Lewy body disease (LBD), with some patients aware of their hallucinations and others not. The awareness...
September 3, 2026
Walter Ott
Abstract John Locke’s theory of perception takes shape in a time of chaos: the orthodox account of this most basic tie between mind and world is crumbling. Among the ruins, new combatants vie for dominance against the old Aristotelian view, chief among them the Cartesians and the neo-Epicureans. The aim of this book is to provide a unified reading of Locke’s theory of perception, informed by...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 3, 2026
Bongsu Kang, Chang-Eop Kim
Research on AI consciousness has largely focused on whether AI systems are conscious and how humans attribute consciousness to them. Yet large language models (LLMs) increasingly function as consciousness attributors, generating judgments about whether and to what degree other entities are conscious. We introduce model-generated consciousness attribution as an object of empirical...
Irish Geography
September 2, 2026
Imogen O'Connor
This mixed method study employed survey and interviews to explore in an Irish context, whether Indigenous perspectives on nature have persisted. It examined sixty-five participants’ experiences of connection and communication with nature places, their place-based cultural influences, and their environmental beliefs and behaviours. Employing a phenomenological perspective, findings revealed...
Royal Society Open Science
September 2, 2026
Trevor Hewitt, Anil K. Seth, David J. Schwartzman
Abstract: Hallucinations arise from disruptions in neural processes that construct perceptual experience from sensory input. Progress in consciousness science may therefore benefit from methods that precisely characterize their phenomenology. We provide an initial validation of the Six-Dimensional Visual Hallucination Questionnaire (6D-VHQ), a brief instrument designed to quantify visual...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
September 2, 2026
Yarin Szachter, Almog Simchon, D. Kalev et al.
Abstract Sense of Agency (SoA), the subjective experience of initiating and controlling one’s actions, is a critical component of self-perception and consciousness, and is often degraded in different psychopathologies. Individuals with dissociation seem to have diminished SoA, but it is yet unknown whether this affects communication with their surroundings. This study employs Natural Language...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 2, 2026
preprint
Abstract Can artificial intelligence become the equal of a human being, now or in the near future? This practical question can be answered only once we make precise what the equality in question is an equality in. This paper construes it as equality of standing, and decomposes it, following the narrative from which the question arises — that a human being is an individual, a mental entity, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 2, 2026
Rahul Mehta Associate Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Delhi New Delhi India
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The emergence of increasingly capable artificial intelligence has transformed the philosophical question of human identity. Machines can now perform cognitive and creative tasks that were once widely regarded as uniquely human, including language generation, image creation, problem-solving, translation, programming, and complex decision support. These developments have generated uncertainty...
Journal for the Study of Spirituality
September 2, 2026
Jing Liu-Helmersson, Helene Lindmark, Annette Andersson
This study attempts to use quantum physics to understand spirituality in Sámi traditional healing. Sámi are Indigenous people from Arctic Europe. Research methods include a theoretical model and an in-depth interview study with five healers from North Sweden (three have a Sámi background/blood). The theoretical model is based on two physics concepts: quantum entanglement and complex spacetime....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 2, 2026
Jacob S.K. Gandu
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Sleep paralysis (SP) is a paralytic episode that occurs during sleep–wake transitions and is characterized by an inability to move or speak while conscious. Although SP is reported globally across diverse populations, its prevalence and associated factors remain under-researched. This study investigated the prevalence and risk factors of SP among tertiary students. A cross-sectional survey was...