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Journal for the Academic Study of Religion April 21, 2026 Alessandro Cancian
Milad Milani, The Nature of Sufism: An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 152, $66.74, ISBN 9781032079059 (pbk).
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 21, 2026 Charles S. Thomas preprint
Current accounts of affect in the philosophy of mind, affective neuroscience, and consciousness studies fall into three broad classes — phenomenological, functional, and eliminativist — each presupposing a shared prior assumption that none specifies: that the systems under analysis are bounded, persisting units whose affective states can be coherently analyzed. Adjacent traditions...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience April 20, 2026 Seoyoung Lee, Seok-In Yoon, Hsien-Yin Liao et al.
The self is increasingly conceptualized as an embodied, predictive process in contemporary cognitive and affective neuroscience. The brain continually infers the causes of both exteroceptive and interoceptive signals in order to minimize prediction error and maintain allostatic balance. Within this framework, emotion can be understood as an inference about changes in bodily states. Parallel...
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia April 20, 2026 Riccardo Valenti
In this paper, I defend the claim that objectivity, in classical phenomenology, is best read as an instituted invariant: not a static given but the diachronic achievement of cooperative validation within transcendental intersubjectivity, mediated by technics—above all, writing and inscription—that ensure the iterability, transmissibility, and public critique of sense. The essay unfolds in five...
Analytic Philosophy April 20, 2026 John F. Halpin
The goal of this essay is to promote a non‐traditional physicalism for consciousness much as metaethical constructivisms are meant as naturalistic alternatives to traditional moral realism. The account on offer is based on a perspectival version of David Lewis's Humean “best‐system” account for scientific representation. On this version, suspect concepts are vindicated (from the perspective of...
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association April 20, 2026 Maham Khan
Dear Editor, While there is a growing interest towards subconscious phenomena globally, experiences like lucid dreaming are under-researched in South Asia and remain largely unrecognized in Pakistan’s academic and clinical settings despite their widely acknowledged psychological significance. International studies have examined the association between lucid dreaming and psychopathology with...
World Futures April 19, 2026 Pascal Michael
The alien abduction phenomenon – reports of being taken by non-human entities, often into a craft-like environment and subjected to examinations or procedures – is widely described yet remains scientifically contentious. This review synthesizes the main neuroscientific and psychological models that have been proposed to explain why such experiences occur, why they are often recalled as vivid...
Digital Science April 18, 2026
The essence of life and consciousness remains a central question in humanity's prolonged exploration of civilization. From classical philosophical speculation to modern scientific empirical research, our understanding of this proposition has deepened continuously yet remains elusive of ultimate answers. As fundamental units of matter, atoms exhibit ordered microscopic structures and dynamic...
Adaptive Behavior April 18, 2026 Ignacio Cea
The pre-reflective experience of being a body is a fundamental component of consciousness and selfhood. A leading account from the perspective of active inference is Seth and Tsakiris’ (2018, see also Seth, 2021, 2024) proposal that this experience arises from instrumental interoceptive inference (III), namely the nervous system’s interoceptive predictions about the sensory consequences of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 18, 2026 preprint
We propose a three-phase experimental protocol testing whether the radical pair mechanism (RPM) operates during N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT)-induced psychedelicstates at the 5-HT2A receptor. Position-specific isotopic substitution of the ligand (13C at C3a, 15N on indole nitrogen) modifies nuclear spin content without altering molecular geometry, receptor affinity, or metabolic...