Delhi Business Review
January 29, 2026
Davesh Sharma, Anita Jain
1 citation
Purpose: The present study aims to discuss how the practice of yoga influences the development of an individual and how their practice can be a pillar of the foundation of an awakened society. It also explores how the incorporation of yoga into the educational system, as proposed by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, India, supports physical, mental, emotional, and ethical development....
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
January 29, 2026
Spyros Kontis, Sofia Anastasiadou
This chapter explores the emergence of artificial qualia as the synthetic counterpart of human experience and examines the ethical, psychological, and philosophical implications of machines that appear to feel. Through an interdisciplinary analysis combining philosophy of mind, affective computing, and bioethics, the chapter distinguishes between the simulation and the experience of emotion. It...
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
January 29, 2026
Silvio Andrae
This chapter examines the question of qualia in the context of artificial intelligence and links it to Günther Anders' diagnosis of the ‘Promethean gap.' The aim is to combine the ontological debate on machine consciousness with an anthropological-ethical perspective. Methodologically, classical positions in the philosophy of mind (functionalism, Searle, Tononi, panpsychism) are systematically...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 29, 2026
Sciacchitano Gianluca
preprint
This preprint presents The Last Dream, a theoretical model aimed at interpreting the subjective experience that may occur in the seconds immediately following cardiac arrest and preceding irreversible neuronal failure. Drawing on convergent evidence from physics of time, neuroscience, neurochemistry, and psychedelic research, the model explores the plausibility of a transient terminal state...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 29, 2026
Victoria Akopova
preprint
This article explores the tension between classical psychoanalytic interpretations of dreams and contemporary physiological measurements of sleep. By integrating Freudian theory with data obtained from wearable sleep-tracking technology, the study demonstrates that REM sleep can occur without subjective dream recall. Introducing the concept of the digital unconscious, the article proposes a new...
Neuroimage
January 29, 2026
Dmitri Filimonov, Mika Koivisto, Antti Revonsuo
The past twenty years of research have revealed two event-related potential (ERP) components to be the most reliably occurring neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) in vision: an early visual awareness negativity (VAN) in the N2 and late positivity (LP) in the P3 time window. Three previous extensive reviews concluded that VAN is a proper visual NCC, which is solely modulated by awareness....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 28, 2026
Akash Pawar -
preprint
The concept of the self is often treated either as a metaphysical primitive or as a uniquely human phenomenon inseparable from consciousness. Both approaches generate deep and persistent confusion. In this paper, I offer a clarification not a new metaphysical theory of the concept of self by grounding it firmly in physical reality and in actual scientific practice. The central claim is simple...
Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne
January 28, 2026
Piotr Kaczmarek
Non-Catholic philosophy speaks about mysticism, but often reduces it to one of the dimensions of human inner life, emphasizing either the human intellect or the will or feelings. As a rule, this experience detaches from God Himself, preaching atheism or agnosticism. He sees religious experience as a subjective human experience that can only be understood from the perspective of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 28, 2026
Irina Terekhova
preprint
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, scientists hypothesized that psychedelics could serve as models for understanding psychosis. By the early twentieth century, this theory began to be tested experimentally. Since different types of psychotomimetic drugs induce qualitatively distinct forms of psychosis, there has been ongoing debate about whether there exist specifically ‘schizophrenogenic’...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 27, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
preprint
Abstract: This essay presents a phenomenological catalog of non-ordinary human experiences reported across cultures and historical periods. It documents what has been reported—from near-death experiences to meditative states to apparent psychic phenomena—without adjudicating what should be believed. The goal is descriptive completeness rather than evaluative closure. Part of the Return to...