The Screaming Lawn Problem is a satirical-but-technically-grounded probe into the failure modes of consciousness proxy criteria when applied outside their intended substrate. Using plant volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, electrical signalling, and mycorrhizal networks as case studies, the paper demonstrates that standard consciousness proxies — signal integration, adaptive response,...
This study aims to examine and compare the concept of God in the perspectives of Karen Armstrong and Ibn ‘Ata’illah al-Sakandari through a spiritual-historical comparative approach. The research employs a qualitative method with a library research design, focusing on an analysis of the main works of both thinkers. The findings reveal that Karen Armstrong understands God as a transcendent,...
How the brain generates conscious experiences remains profoundly mysterious. Pharmacological interventions that alter the state of consciousness have been proposed as a tool to investigate the neural mechanisms of consciousness. However, we have recently demonstrated that the sedative Propofol influences both conscious and unconscious neural processing. Altered arousal, and other...
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of implementing BAKU (Good and Strong) culture in Islamic mindfulness therapy as an alternative treatment for anxiety and depression among young Muslims, particularly in the Daarut Tauhiid Bandung environment. The background of this study is based on the high prevalence of mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, among Indonesian...
Substance-induced psychoses (SIP) may offer a useful vantage point for exploring mechanisms underlying psychotic disorders and for examining the phenomenological specificities of schizophrenia. Clinical observations suggest that a clinically relevant subset of patients does not fully recover after an episode of substance-induced psychosis, raising the hypothesis of more persistent psychotic...
This paper presents the Five Phases of Self-Acceptance, a phenomenological map describing how acceptance develops through distinct stages, from conceptual understanding through performed acceptance to genuine paradoxical integration. The core insight: acceptance includes accepting one's own non-acceptance of self. When this paradox is genuinely encountered (Phase 4-5), it appears to create...
The distinction between the mind and the brain has been a longstanding philosophical and scientific debate that continues to shape our understanding of human consciousness. While the brain is a tangible, biological organ composed of neurons and synaptic connections, the mind represents the abstract domain of thoughts, emotions, perception, and self-awareness. This paper explores the conceptual...
Despite historical shifts, “science” has consistently meant epistemic authority, perhaps leading enactivists to cast their work accordingly. Yet enactivism sits uneasily with Popperian falsifiability, Kuhnian paradigm shifts, Hempel’s standards, and other philosophy of science benchmarks, but does better under Lakatos. Lakatos’s model holds that progressive science preserves a hardcore of...
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) and Active Inference provide a unifying variational framework for modelling perception, action, learning, and self-organisation across biological systems. While highly successful at explaining how systems maintain organisation under uncertainty, these frameworks remain explicitly neutral with respect to a foundational question: why there is experience at all....
Abstract The aim of the paper is to complement Sartre's concept of enchanted consciousness. The first section of the paper studies the contradictions inherent in Sartre's mescaline experiment and the limits of his phenomenological analysis of hallucination. The second section argues that Benny Shanon's phenomenological cognitive psychology, which is based on the typology of ayahuasca...