BACKGROUND: Naturalistic psychedelic use can result in a range of difficulties that impair social, occupational, and other important areas of functioning. Yet, the prevalence, phenomenology, and etiology of these outcomes remain poorly understood. Recent qualitative research has shown that individuals with long-term difficulties after psychedelic use sometimes attribute their challenges to...
Abstract Here, “content” is construed broadly, as everything presented to us during an experience, not the more restrictive “propositional” content. An interesting feature of visual phenomenology is that what we are aware of and not aware of is not experientially accessible. Our experience of objects can involve epiphanies, where we are unaware of the visual details that determine our seeing...
As artificial intelligence progresses promptly, issues adjoining synthetic consciousness and AI Qualia, the capacity of machines to experience subjective states, are gaining increasing ethical and philosophical importance. This student-centered study examines how university students perceive the ethical and deontological implications of such systems. A 30-item Likert-scale questionnaire was...
This chapter examines the evolving concepts of robotic personality and legal personality of artificial intelligence, exploring how conscious or semi-conscious machines may challenge traditional legal and moral boundaries. It situates the idea of AI qualia, meaning machine based subjective experience, within philosophical theories of mind and connects it to emerging frameworks of legal...
Drawing on philosophy of mind, learning sciences, and sociotechnical governance, this chapter advances a simulation first framework that harvests instructional dividends of AI while preserving human primacy. We codify ontological hygiene that separates functional mimicry from phenomenal realization, define discursive and interface semantics that calibrate trust, and supply evaluation matrices...
Qualia, the subjective and ineffable aspects of experience, are explored here as fundamental elements of consciousness shaping affect and interpretation.. It critically examines the traditional and modern arguments with regards to their ontology and explanatory predicament using the classical contributions of the arguments by Thomas Nagel, Daniel Dennett, and David Chalmers. Dennett opposes the...
This chapter examines the complex relationship between simulation and sentience in computational consciousness, addressing the central issue of the explanatory gap that separates functional intelligence from subjective experience. It explores philosophical foundations, including the hard problem of consciousness, and evaluates computational models such as symbolic AI, neural networks, and...
Physiological, pharmacological, and pathological alterations of consciousness provide critical windows into its neural substrates. Given the inherent complexity and multidimensionality of consciousness, defining quantitative, dynamic signatures of neural activity, and translating them into clinically applicable tools remains challenge. This study aimed to build an electroencephalography...
This study explores the lived experiences of Spiritual Emotional Intelligence (SEI), a psychological framework rooted in the Bhagavad Gitā , a foundational text of Indian spiritual philosophy. Building on a previously proposed model comprising five dimensions—ā tma-bodha (self-awareness), samatva (equanimity), niṣkāma-karma (non-attached action), Dharma (virtuous duty), and bhakti (devotion)—we...
This study presents an in-depth analysis of prenatal intersubjectivity—namely the inner connection, intuitive communication, and emotional resonance between mothers and their fetuses—within the context of contemporary Indonesian sociocultural life. Using a cultural-phenomenological approach involving 30 pregnant women at Santo Borromeus Hospital in Bandung, the research explores how bodily...