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Synthese September 1, 2025 M. Carter
This paper deals with the impact of the extended mind thesis on relational egalitarianism: the now-dominant view on (the politically relevant form of) equality within contemporary political philosophy. If proponents of the extended mind thesis are right, I argue, persons have two core interests that arise from their relationships with elements of the external environment: an interest in an...
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem September 1, 2025 Ufuk Tura
This dissertation aims to investigate several questions: 1) Are unconscious phenomena mental phenomena?2) What is the nature of unconscious mentation?3) What is the ontology of unconscious mental states?4) Is there unity in the unconscious mind?5) What is the relationship between conscious and unconscious mental processes?6) In what sense are unconscious mental states intentional?After briefly...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2025 Jacob W. Glazier, David S. B. Mitchell, Zachary Wipff et al.
ABSTRACTWe use Critical Narrative Analysis (CNA) to examine collected apparitional accounts within the geographic region of Western Georgia in the United States. We discuss the extant local folklore on ghosts in the literature while providing a methodological backdrop. The analysis of the data yields four dominant discourses, which are countered in five salient ways: through (1) the extension...
Cureus September 2025 Monalisa Boro, Vivek Saharan, Pranjal Dey
Shared psychotic disorder (SPD) is a rare phenomenon. This case report describes a 60-year-old man (primary subject) who first developed visual hallucinations, which he claimed to see small, white insects, thread-like, about half a centimeter, emerging from the folds of his wife's skin near the elbow crease, wriggling, and then vanishing. Following his persistent suggestions, his wife...
European Journal of Philosophy September 1, 2025 David Rosenthal
AbstractHow do we come to understand the nature of the thoughts that we and others have? And how do we come to have the conceptual resources needed to formulate such understanding? Many would say we understand the nature of thoughts simply by being subjectively aware of our own conscious thoughts. But it is unclear how consciousness could, on its own, provide the conceptual resources required...
Cognitive Systems Research September 1, 2025 Sang Hun Kim, Dongkyu Park, Jongmin Lee et al.
Human consciousness is still a concept hard to define with current scientific understanding. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated significant advancements across various domains including translation and summarization, human consciousness is not something to imitate with current upfront technology owing to so-called hallucination. This study, therefore, proposes a...
Music & Science September 1, 2025 Gemma Perry, Jack Sunjo, Farida Abass et al.
Individuals with breathing difficulties such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and long COVID often experience mood disturbances and isolation. Previous research on musical care has considered the potential of music and singing to support people with respiratory symptoms, but the possible benefits of group chanting have not been explored. Group chanting is a global...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences September 1, 2025 Juan Diego Bogotá
Abstract Predictive processing is an increasingly popular explanatory framework developed within cognitive neuroscience. It conceives of the brain as a prediction machine that tries to minimise prediction error. Predictive processing has also been employed to explain aspects of conscious experience. In this paper, I critically evaluate current predictive processing approaches to the...
Biological Psychology September 1, 2025 Norden E. Huang, Wei-Shuai Yuan, Albert C Yang et al.
Consciousness remains a multifaceted phenomenon that is difficult to be measured by traditional quantification methods. Here we propose the intrinsic probability density function (iPDF) as a quantitative method to evaluate the dynamic inter-cortical interactions that underlie conscious states. First, the method utilizes empirical mode decomposition to derive intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) from...
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science September 1, 2025 Čestmír Vejmola, Klára Šíchová, Kateřina Syrová et al. 4 citations
Psychedelics, particularly psilocin, are increasingly being studied for their mind-altering effects and potential therapeutic applications in psychiatry. Visual hallucinations, especially the illusion of motion in static images, are a hallmark of their action. Despite growing interest, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood, as their systematic evaluation in both humans and animals...