Inner-speech research documents striking individual diversity through descriptive phenomenology, self-report questionnaires, and extreme phenotypes, yet prior studies typically sample a few hundred respondents, and no design has mapped how the major modes co-occur or trade off at population scale. We addressed this gap with a video-based online survey (clean N = 5,289): respondents rated seven...
A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity. Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately linked in medieval thought. Early thinkers integrated mathematical and linguistic frameworks in their attempts to understand both divine and human creation with...
The article develops the concept of the epistemic centaur – an emergent alliance between human consciousness and Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI). ComAI denotes a new generation of language models functioning according to the logic of communication: they sustain the context of dialogue, read the pragmatics of discourse, respond to the interlocutor’s intention, and initiate new...
In Nigeria, where yoga is largely unknown and underused, recent socio-economic challenges- including inflation, burnout, and growing mental health challenges – make the need for a change in educational leadership model apparent. This paper projects a yoga-informed approach to educational leadership as a full, invigorative model for planning sustainable learning environments. Rooted in the...
June 24, 2026Anaïs Servais, Fleur Gérard, Hélène Mirabel et al.
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Patients with severe anterograde amnesia have been described as "stuck in time"; their mental time travel abilities are altered, and they seem to live in the present. Here, we examine an unusual phenomenon in which severely amnesic patients recurrently report the belief that they have just awakened from an unconscious state. A famous case illustrating this phenomenon was that of Clive Wearing...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in all cultures for many who are revived from clinical death. Anyone, from believers to atheists, can have one. The life-changing, spiritually transforming NDEs of medical doctors Eben Alexander and Tony Cicoria discussed in this article are amplified by the thousands of cases that doctors Pim Van Lommel and Jeffrey Long have researched. Van Lommel believes...
Where did “we” come from? How did our self-consciousness come to be? This great mystery has puzzled scientists for centuries. Applying representative cognitive behavioral experiments, this study proposes the Mirror-Induced Origination Hypothesis and further conducts a thought experiment to demonstrate that the brain’s conscious reaction was induced in humans’ animal ancestor to undergo illusory...
The association between near-death experiences (NDEs) and physiological indicators remains an unsolved mystery, which hinders in-depth understanding of the essence of consciousness and life processes. Traditional single-indicator analysis methods have limitations, and a comprehensive multi-modal research approach is urgently needed to advance relevant explorations in the fields of medicine,...
How do individuals remain themselves while continuously changing? Contemporary psychological theories have primarily addressed this question through the concept of self-regulation, emphasizing the processes through which organisms adapt to internal and environmental demands. However, adaptation alone does not explain how individuals maintain a coherent sense of self across bodily, relational,...
This article liberates discussion of the politics of psychedelics from its present impasse. Across ten theses, it asserts that psychedelics are interruptive deautomating political technologies, which makes them conducive to democratic politics, in the radical sense: rather than consolidating liberal-democratic systems of representative or managed democracy, psychedelic experience tends to open...