Animal Sentience
August 28, 2026
Catherine Macri, Martín Giurfa
What does The Edge of Sentience tell us about insect sentience and consciousness? In this commentary, we reflect on Jonathan Birch’s framework for defining and scientifically investigating sentience in animals. We discuss the methodological challenges of studying subjective experience in evolutionary distant species, and consider trace conditioning, affective states, and neural architectures as...
August 28, 2026
Holly Hepburn
Renewed clinical interest in psychedelics has drawn attention to their challenging effects, yet most phenomenological and psychometric work derives from psilocybin, leaving cross-substance variation underexplored. This thesis employed codebook thematic analysis to examine challenging experiences across DMT, psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine, utilising 146 naturalistic accounts collected from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Francisco Javier Meléndez García
preprint
This paper advances a contemporary, neo-Stoic framework for reinterpreting the myth of Sisyphus, transitioning from the traditional existential framework of the absurd toward an ascetic process of metaphysical refinement. Traditionally conceptualized as a tragedy of causal incarceration and futile consciousness, the punitive landscape of Tartarus is here reframed as a structured, pedagogical...
Psychopathology
August 27, 2026
Sarah Parry, Sarah Carr, Ben Alderson-Day
Felt presence (FP) is an emerging field of clinical research and to our knowledge there are no studies exploring the phenomenon within children and young people. The current study aims to address this by reporting the experiences of FPs from a clinical sample of young people involved in the ChUSE trial, a feasibility and acceptability RCT looking at supporting young people with distressing...
Ethos
August 27, 2026
Johanna Bard Richlin
Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games, by Jeffrey Snodgrass, compiles and compares the author's varied ethnographic research on two forms of ecstatic experience: Religious possession in India (Rajasthan) and video game play in India (Udaipur) and the United States (Colorado).In this ambitious and unexpected juxtaposition, Snodgrass argues that both experiences...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Moupiya Dutta
preprint
Abstract This practice-as-research (PaR) investigation examines the somato-cognitive architecture of solo Bharatanatyam, focusing on the real-time execution of split consciousness (Saṃvit-Dvaidha), motor automatization, and multi-character role assumption (Pātrāveśa) on an empty stage. Integrating traditional Sanskrit dramaturgical treatises (Nāṭyaśāstra, Abhinayadarpaṇa) with enactive 4E...
European Journal of Social Theory
August 27, 2026
Gabriel Peters
Drawing on Bernard Lahire's sociological approach to dreams and revisiting its critical dialogue with Bourdieu, this article presents dreaming as an involuntary modality of reflexivity: an internal communication in which the subject reflects on existential concerns experienced in waking life. Like other forms of reflexivity—from artistic self-expression to reflections articulated on the...
ISSUE: Journal of Islamic Studies for Universal Dialogue
August 27, 2026
Risma Rahman, Basrir Hamdani
The question of whether human knowledge persists after death remains a significant philosophical issue, particularly in debates between materialist and metaphysical perspectives. Materialist thinkers generally argue that knowledge ceases with the termination of brain function and consciousness, whereas metaphysical traditions maintain the continuity of knowledge beyond bodily existence. This...
Nursing Edição Brasileira
August 27, 2026
Ana Júlia Costa Matias Gomes, Jéssica Camilo Ramos Rodrigues, Valber Pinheiro Padilha Filho
Os psicodélicos clássicos, como a psilocibina, o LSD e a DMT, têm despertado crescente interesse na psiquiatria moderna devido ao seu potencial terapêutico em transtornos resistentes ao tratamento. O mecanismo de ação primário dessas substâncias envolve o agonismo dos receptores de serotonina 5-HT2A, localizados principalmente no córtex pré-frontal. Esta revisão sistemática analisou como a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
D. Dilhani Indrachapa
preprint
The rapid development of technical power and globalization in the twenty first century have enabled mankind to enjoy unprecedented material comforts but at the same time have presented him with complex social and psychological problems. Young people are experiencing significant mental health issues, mainly stress and depression, in a very competitive society today. This paper investigates...