Multiple lines of neuroscientific evidence have converged on a set of closely related findings: the mammalian brain endogenously synthesizes N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) at neurotransmitter-comparable concentrations (Dean et al., 2019); psychedelic compounds suppress the default mode network (DMN) and dissolve ego boundaries (Carhart-Harris et al., 2012; Tagliazucchi et al., 2016); the brain...
The "thermostat as observer" is a recurring motif in philosophy of mind and foundations of physics. We argue, however, that this framing rests on a category mistake — one that generates controversies which resist resolution as long as observation is treated as a property of a device: Where exactly does observerhood begin? What distinguishes an observer from a mere physical process? Our proposal...
The main idea for Jakob Meløe is that our concepts originate in what we do: a toddler's expressions come from the lifeworld and environment of a toddler, and a fisherman's concepts originate in the practice of fishing and a life of seafaring. In this way words are related to a certain practice, but also to a certain place. The landscape that we call home reverberates with our concepts, through...
This study advances a theoretically rigorous synthesis between the metaphysical psychology of the Bhagavad Gita and contemporary psychological science. Drawing from humanistic, cognitive, existential, and contemplative frameworks, the analysis interprets Gita constructs—Atman, ahamkara, samskaras, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and meditation—as components of a unified model of...
تتناول الورقة البحثية رواية وليام غيبسون نيورومانسر (1984) كنص مهم في دراسات الأدب ما بعد الإنساني، وتحلل كيف تتصور الرواية تطور الوعي ما وراء القيود الإنسانية التقليدية. و تستكشف هذه الدراسة استناداً إلى نظرية ما بعد الإنسانية، وبخاصة أعمال ن. كاثرين هايلز وروزي برايدوتي، عرض غيبسون لنماذج متعددة للوعي ما بعد الإنساني من خلال شخصيات رئيسية: الوعي الرقمي المجرد لـ"كيس"، والذكاء الاصطناعي...
Criticism of To the Lighthouse has, for much of the last century, turned to consciousness as the privileged site of temporal experience. From early phenomenological readings to more recent narratol...
This chapter explores the layered dialogue between Buddhism and psychoanalysis as two symbolic languages spoken by one mind. Rather than seeking integration or synthesis, it traces how each discourse illuminates different dimensions of psychic truth: psychoanalysis naming the structured, split, and desiring subject; Buddhism articulating emptiness, interdependence, and nondual awareness....
The objective of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of adolescent mindfulness therapy on the academic resilience and academic optimism in Anxious First-Year High School Students. The research method included a two-month follow-up period, a pretest, posttest, and control group design, and was quasi-experimental. The statistical population of the present study included anxious...
Abstract This chapter proposes an interdisciplinary model for oneiric experientiality, which makes the case for dreams being immersive, and for immersive worlds. It compares dream and waking lives, and it provides conceptual, phenomenological, and ontological contrast by adding also our experience of fictional worlds to the mix (via the concepts of fictional immersion and ‘saturation’). The...
This paper examines the philosophical and ethical significance of “forgetting” in Dōgen’s thought. It argues that the deepest form of forgetting—“forgetting oneself”—is not a psychological loss but a transformative practice through which a self-centered mode of existence is relinquished, allowing access to a multi-dimensional world in which beings appear across different ontological and...