Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 29, 2026
Sidário Rodrigues Malheiros-junior
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This conceptual article isolates an unresolved transition in the cognitive and philosophical study of mortality and afterlife belief. It distinguishes three propositions that are frequently conflated: the desire for more embodied life, the representation of the experiential subject as continuing after biological death, and the assignment of that continuation to a consciousness or agency of...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
August 29, 2026
Insil Song, Sujin Yun
Purpose: This study explored how adults who participated in a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program experience self-compassion, and interpreted the meaning structure of that experience to reveal its underlying essence. Methods: Van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenology was adopted. Data were collected from three adults who had completed a standard MSC program through individual written accounts and...
Ergodesign
August 29, 2026
The article presents an expanded version of the topological theory of consciousness (TTC), which includes a generative level – recursive rules for generating discriminations. TTC asserts that consciousness emerges as a discrete phase transition (an ultrametric collapse) that is a projection of a higher-rank generative process. Unlike IIT, TTC explains not only the quantitative but also the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 29, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The problem of consciousness occupies a singular position in contemporary philosophy: universally acknowledged as difficult, unresolved in its central question, and productive of a technical literature whose positions are now sharply defined. This review synthesizes the development of the mind-body problem from the mid-twentieth-century critiques of empiricism to the present landscape of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Yanesh Kumar
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This essay examines the proposition that life is the continuous transformation of cosmic, environmental, and individual energies into experience through awareness and action. Drawing from thermodynamics, phenomenology, Eastern philosophical traditions — particularly Vedic cosmology — and contemporary systems theory, the essay argues that this definition uniquely captures the triadic structure...
August 28, 2026
Dylan Van der Schyff, Adrian Kempf
Abstract Traditionally, research on musical creativity and creativity in general has focused on assessing the products and mental processes of individuals. This chapter provides a novel perspective highlighting the experiential and interactive nature of musical creativity. Its approach is rooted in the 4E (embodied, extended, embedded, enacted) framework of cognition and integrates insights...
PsyArXiv
August 28, 2026
Bastian Jaeger, Stefan Leach, Matthew Zipple
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Consciousness and the capacity to experience affective states, such as pain, pleasure, fear, and hunger (i.e., sentience) are seen as key determinants of an individual’s moral status, a view that is shared by scientists, philosophers, and laypeople. Whether (and which) non-human animals are believed to possess these capacities can therefore have important consequences for how they are treated....
August 28, 2026
Douglas Henrique Honorato Carvalho
A persistent challenge at the intersection of fundamental physics and the philosophy of mind lies in the apparent incommensurability between the geometric objectivity of spacetime and the qualitative subjectivity of conscious experience. This paper formalizes the Recursive Information Latency Hypothesis (RILH). By modeling the quantum vacuum as a non-linear four-dimensional (4D) fluid within...
European Journal of Education and Counselling
August 28, 2026
Sümeyra Yakar, Meryem Karaaziz
This study aims to comparatively examine the concept of self within the framework of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology and Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi's Sufi understanding. The self, central to human existence, is considered a fundamental element in both approaches as a key component of the individual's inner transformation process. In Jung's theory, the self is defined as a psychological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Jonghoon Lee
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Psychoanalytic and phenomenological accounts of anxiety distinguish between raw bodily disquiet and top-down symbolic structures—morality, faith, and meaning—that subjects erect to contain it. We propose a neuropsychoanalytic model mapping this distinction onto two interacting neural registers: a bottom-up interoceptive circuit centered on the anterior insula and Salience Network (SN), and a...