Mitra Sriwijaya Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen
July 31, 2026
Tesha Widyanari Anggraeni Rumpoko
Generation Z is a generation born and raised in the digital era, making technology an inseparable part of their daily lives. While technological advancements provide easier access to information and spiritual resources, they also present challenges such as digital distractions, digital addiction, diminished capacity for reflection, and increasing psychological and spiritual pressures. This...
July 31, 2026
Calum Chace
This chapter explores the scientific and philosophical mystery of consciousness, providing a framework for understanding how we define and study subjective experience. It begins by examining why a consensus on consciousness remains elusive, distinguishing between the “easy problems” of neural mechanics and the “hard problem” of why we have internal experiences at all. The discussion traces the...
July 31, 2026
Daniel Hulme
Somewhere in the world right now, engineers are building systems that may be capable of suffering. We have no consensus on how to tell. This chapter offers a framework for the problem we can no longer avoid. The Spinning Wheel Theory proposes that consciousness is not a mysterious addition to intelligence but its experiential aspect – what integrated adaptive control feels like from inside....
July 31, 2026
Calum Chace
This chapter explores the profound ethical and practical dilemma of whether the first superintelligent artificial intelligence should be engineered with consciousness or remain a non-conscious “philosophical zombie”. It evaluates the primary risks associated with conscious machines, such as the potential for “mind crime” – the creation of artificial suffering and enslavement – and the...
July 31, 2026
Lucy Griffiths
This chapter examines the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence consciousness assessment through the lens of critical disability studies and neurodiversity. It argues that many proposed tests for machine consciousness tacitly rely on a narrow set of neurotypical and non-disabled norms, creating a risk of “epistemic ableism” where atypical expressions of mind are unrecognised or ignored....
Religious Studies
July 31, 2026
S Siddharth
Abstract Recent years have seen increased interest in panpsychism as a metaphysics of consciousness, as well as a burgeoning cross-cultural dialogue between analytic philosophy of mind and classical Indian traditions regarding panpsychism. While Advaita Vedānta has been the school that has received the most attention in this regard, Advaita’s foremost opponents within the Vedāntic umbrella –...
Korean Language and Literature
July 30, 2026
Hyun-hwa Kim
『GeumoSinhwa』 and 『GijaeGiui』 are works that intensively feature the figures of visitors to the transcendent world from the era of tales. These visitors challenge the ontology of immortality not through variations of the ‘body,’ but through the experiment of ‘'crossing boundaries with the physical body itself.’ The aspects of visitors to the transcendent world in classical novels manifest as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 30, 2026
Qiang Dai
preprint
The cover paper, A Constructive Ontology of Minded Beings, is not a fourth theoretical contribution so much as the interpretive frame for the trilogy (Paper I on minimal subject: 10.5281/zenodo.21700484, Paper II on minimal self: 10.5281/zenodo.21700773, Paper III on minimal person: 10.5281/zenodo.21700984). It explains that the project is built around three distinct ontological questions: why...
Journal of The Scientific Mysticism and Literature
July 30, 2026
Morteza Ebrahimi
Understanding oneself is the key to grasping the realities of the human world. The entrance to this field is only possible through sharing views and understanding their ideas, since the ultimate goal of a mystic is to understand and convey his understanding based on order and practice. The basis of Mysticism and understanding is merely mind and thinking, because the process of thinking itself...
Theology and praxis
July 30, 2026
Joseph Jeon
This study examines Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the concept of peak experience from the perspective of Christian counseling, focusing on his explanation of human motivation through a hierarchy of needs and its later expansion to include cognitive, aesthetic, and self-transcendence needs. Maslow’s theory provides valuable insights into understanding human beings as holistic persons...