BACKGROUND: The question of whether large language models (LLMs) possess consciousness has been increasingly debated. Integrated information theory (IIT) offers a quantitative framework for assessing consciousness through a measure of integrated information. METHODS: This study applied IIT principles to the architecture of transformer-based LLMs, focusing on causal integration, temporal...
The neurological underpinnings of Tourette's Syndrome offer an avenue to identify the neural correlates of consciousness. Neuroimaging of Tourette's Syndrome patients during the volitional control of premonitory urges highlight the involvement of the non-language dominant prefrontal portion of the frontal operculum of the inferior frontal gyrus and the anterior insular cortex in tic inhibition...
In the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs), prominent theories disagree about the role of sensory versus widespread fronto-parietal brain activity. Research on auditory awareness has been widely neglected, and disentangling NCCs from correlates of task-related post-perceptual processes (e.g., report) is an ongoing challenge. In the present study, we addressed these issues using...
Interest and use of psychedelic substances is on the rise in the general population. Research has mainly focused on therapeutic applications in formal treatment settings, and little is known about persistent negative effects in naturalistic use. The aim of this paper is to present a clinically relevant overview of the phenomenology and symptoms of enduring mental health problems after...
Interessen for og bruken av psykedeliske stoffer vokser i befolkningen. Forskning har primært fokusert på terapeutiske anvendelser i formelle behandlingssettinger, og det er lite kunnskap om vedvarende negative effekter ved naturalistisk bruk. Målet med artikkelen er å gi en klinisk relevant oversikt over fenomenologi og symptombilde på langvarige psykiske plager etter bruk av psykedelika. Tre...
By exploring the spiritual effects of psilocybin on clergy from a range of world religions, this study widens our view to consider the full evolutionary potential of the current psychedelic revolution. Throughout human history
In this article, we propose a semiotic analysis of Gnaoua possession rituals in Morocco, placing the body in a trance state at the centre of the analysis. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Peircean semiotics, Marcel Mauss’s contributions on bodily techniques, Gilbert Rouget’s phenomenology of ritual music, and the anthropological work of Ioan M. Lewis, we seek to demonstrate that the body...
Background: Among individuals with psychotic experiences, those with a history of developmental trauma face greater symptom severity and worse clinical outcomes compared to those without. Dissociation constitutes a prominent, characteristic of this group's clinical presentation, whose nuances and associated characteristics remain however understudied in psychosis research. We aimed to address...
Psychosis is often understood in one of two ways: as a breakdown of cognitive circuitry, which has nothing to teach us as far as phenomenology is concerned and that can be treated only by focusing on the underlying causal processes that bring it about (reductionism and the 'madness-as-nonsense' view), or, alternatively, as a different interpretation of reality, one with nothing distinctly...
Consciousness requires explanation for how biological architectures reliably generate it. This paper introduces Value Saturation, advancing an identity claim: phenomenal consciousness IS explicit recursive self-modeling saturated by homeostatic significance under perspectival entrapment. Building on the Reaction to Reflection framework, the theory distinguishes sentience (implicit recursion...