Advanced International Journal for Research
March 19, 2026
Aparna Yanamandra
In the era of material success brimming to the heights of advancement, the mankind feels the need for resurrection of consciousness which is the governing force of life. It is a bitter truth that the quest for fulfillment remains ever poorly the same. The restlessness that creeps in amidst the valour of expanding knowledge seems to weigh us down in every walk of life. In the wave of...
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
March 18, 2026
Hoang Thị Thuy Duong
Two of the core concepts in the Buddhist prose of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh are non-self and mindfulness. These notions play a pivotal role in cultivating inner peace and fostering a harmonious world. This study focuses on two representative non-fiction prose works by Thích Nhất Hạnh: “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life” (Thích Nhất Hạnh, 2023a) and “No Death, No...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 18, 2026
Marc Lebel
preprint
Why does consciousness exist at all? This essay argues that the question, often treated as metaphysical, admits a structural answer. Consciousness — understood as costly global integration across otherwise independent processing channels — exists because, above a critical threshold of inter-channel conflict, the fitness cost of incoherent responses exceeds the metabolic cost of integration. A...
Philosophical Psychology
March 18, 2026
Matthew Cornelius
Illusionism holds that phenomenal consciousness, understood as the intrinsic qualitative character of experience, is an illusion generated by cognitive systems. While attractive in its parsimony, illusionism is often criticized as imcomplete: it denies qualia without explaining why the appear so compelling. This paper develops the Wet Room model as a constructive extenstion, arguing that...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
March 18, 2026
Jacinthe Cataldi, Andria Pelentritou, Sophie Schwartz et al.
preprint
Abstract The brain continuously integrates information from the external environment (exteroception) and the internal bodily milieu (interoception). How the balance between these two processing streams shifts across vigilance states with differing levels of environmental responsiveness, however, remains poorly understood. Here, we examined neural responses to external auditory and internal...
PsyArXiv
March 18, 2026
Clifford Conway
preprint
The physical substrate of consciousness remains theoretically underdetermined. Two empirically tractable accounts occupy the field: the Organisational Substrate Hypothesis (OSH), which holds that the pattern of neural closure is itself sufficient for consciousness regardless of implementation, and the Intrinsic Causal Power Hypothesis (ICPH), which holds that the specific causal identity of...
Aperture Neuro
March 18, 2026
Melanie Boly
Over the past two decades, consciousness science has advanced from descriptive correlations to mechanistic predictions. Core requirements for conscious states have been clarified, and new diagnostic tools — most notably the Perturbational Complexity Index (PCI) derived from TMS–EEG — are moving toward clinical use. PCI indicates about a 95% probability of detecting consciousness in...
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
March 18, 2026
Elizabeth E Davidson, Sean L Davidson, Paul Glue
Anomalous perceptual experiences (APEs) have been reported anecdotally in ultra-endurance athletes. These experiences occur in the absence of psychiatric illness and may reflect the effects of extreme physiologic and environmental stressors. However, the literature is fragmented and terminology inconsistent, limiting understanding of the nature, prevalence, and mechanisms of these experiences....
Scientific Reports
March 18, 2026
Jonas T. T. Schlomberg, Daniel Meling, Robin Grylka et al.
The acute subjective effects (ASEs) of psychedelic substances are assumed to play a critical role for their therapeutic and well-being enhancing benefits. However, recent work voiced critique regarding the validity and adequacy of conventional measures and modalities utilized to study ASEs of psychedelics, and call for data-driven, unbiased, and experience-based research approaches. The...
Journal for the Study of Spirituality
March 17, 2026
Alvenio G. Mozol
This autoethnographic inquiry examines the epistemological tension between empirical research's demand for explicit clarity and contemplative traditions’ engagement with implicit mystery. Prompted by an editorial feedback critiquing ‘highfalutin’ language in a conference proposal, the study investigates how different forms of discourse organize knowledge in domains involving spirituality and...