This article analyzes intersubjectivity as a constitutive property of embodied consciousness, the biological substrate of which is formed by mechanisms of shared (common) action, as brain systems (in particular, the mirror neuron system) provide a common neural code for the perception and execution of actions. The author assumes a fundamental, constitutive relationship between the ideas of...
The article examines psychedelic visual imagery in music videos. The "psychedelia" concept, primarily associated with a certain class of psychoactive substances and the altered states of consciousness they cause, is studied as an attribute of the present-day media sphere. In relation to the subject, it manifests itself in the form of recognizable visual aesthetics. The article traces the...
Whitman, the renowned 19th century American representative poet and Kabir, the acclaimed 15th century Indian mystic poet and singer have immensely contributed towards transformation of the inner self, the society and the world through their works which propagate the ideas and themes which are universally relevant and acclaimed. The paper would be a select study of how the themes and areas such...
Mental monism is the philosophical theory that ultimate reality comprises only conscious minds. (It is usually identified with subjective idealism, but there are differing readings of that term, so “mental monism” is preferred.) This is a relatively neglected framework for examining the embodiment of consciousness in physical objects such as brains and computers. There is, however, growing...
Indian philosophy offers one of the earliest and most profound enquiries into consciousness and cognition. The Vedic understanding of consciousness is fundamentally cosmological and sacrificial, highlighting Ṛta (cosmic order) and the interconnectedness of the individual and the universe. The Upaniṣads expand on this foundation by providing a deeper metaphysical exploration, centring on Ātman...
Despite divergent behavioral and phenomenological profiles, both psychedelic states and reduced states of consciousness have been associated with a flattening of the brain's functional hierarchy. To address this apparent paradox, we developed a more specific definition of hierarchy based on the proximity of the brain to thermodynamic equilibrium and then applied it to investigate the changes to...
This article examines the concept of Shabbat as “beyond time” (le-ma’alah min ha-zeman) through a sustained engagement with Zoharic Kabbalah and Hasidic thought, followed by a carefully delimited bridge to Richard Feynman’s physics of time. Beginning with the Zohar’s architecture of “two Shabbatot” and its association of the upper Shabbat with the sefirah of Binah, the analysis traces how...
A recent study using intracerebral electroencephalography (EEG) recordings in human patients has documented the electrophysiological correlates of conscious reporting of near-threshold visual targets that followed supra-threshold peripheral spatial cues. Here, we aimed to bridge these intracerebral EEG events with corresponding surface recording, differentiating between conscious and...
Where does imagination come from? How did it originate, and which organisms are capable of imagination? What deeper connections does imagination share with consciousness, survival, and the very essence of life? Across both scientific literature and public discourse, imagination is invoked to describe a wide range of phenomena, including artistic creativity, problem solving, symbolic thought,...
Consciousness remains one of the central challenges in contemporary neuroscience, in part due to the absence of an explicit framework describing the temporal constraints required for integrative processing. While influential models such as Integrated Information Theory and the Free Energy Principle characterize structural and functional aspects of conscious systems, they remain largely agnostic...