The research serves as an introduction to experimental philosophy and introduces a special journal issue on this topic. We trace a brief history of experimental philosophy and consider different variants of its interpretation. Building upon this, we propose the interpretation of experimental philosophy not as a particular direction or stage in the development of philosophical thought but rather...
The research deals with the concept of “epistemologically different worlds” introduced by Gabriel Vacariu and its background in European science and philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century. It is shown that the accusation of plagiarism made by Vacariu against Marcus Gabriel is groundless, firstly, because Gabriel’s concept of “semantic fields” ( Sinnfeld ) is not identical to...
This article reports on the discovery of a recurring visual phenomenon observed by individuals under the influence of exogenous N,N- Dimethyltryptamine (N,N- DMT) when observing a diffracted light pattern generated by a collimated 650 nm laser. Using a structured protocol, a pilot study revealed consistent descriptions of coherent geometric structures and symbols resembling "code." This report...
Blindsight refers to the ability to make accurate visual discriminations without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In this study, we present new evidence from naturalistic observations of a patient with bilateral damage to the striate cortex, who surprisingly demonstrated the ability to detect colored objects, particularly red ones. Despite the slow and effortful process, the patient reported...
The scientific study of lucid sleep, defined as the ability to retain critical self-awareness during ongoing sleep, has traditionally focused on lucid dreaming and induction techniques that specifically target REM sleep. Recently, interest has grown to include other forms of lucid sleep, such as out-of-body experiences, sleep paralysis, and “witnessing-sleep” episodes described in Indian...
PsyArXivJanuary 5, 2025Stefano Palminteri, Charley M Wu
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become a central topic in AI and cognitive science, due to their unprecedented performance in a vast array of tasks. Indeed, some even see 'sparks of artificial general intelligence' in their apparently boundless faculty for conversation and reasoning, Their sophisticated emergent faculties, which were not initially anticipated by their designers, has...
Studies have shown that some covertly conscious brain-injured patients, who are behaviorally unresponsive, can reply to simple questions via neuronal responses. Given the possibility of such neuronal responses, Andrew Peterson et al. have argued that there is warrant for some covertly conscious patients being included in low-stakes medical decisions using neuronal responses, which could protect...
ABSTRACT The alignment of neuroscientific research with psychoanalytic theory and practice has led researchers in the emerging field of neuropsychoanalysis to scrutinize their metaphysical assumptions with respect to the relationship between mind and matter. The position which has achieved prevalence is dual-aspect monism. However, this trend is naïve to the fact that no consensus has been...
ABSTRACT After a definition of what the psychoanalysts used to call “hysteria,” then conversion disorder, Mark Solms shows us two central aspects that place functional neurological disorder at the center of interest for neuropsychoanalysis: (1) conversion disorder represents the inverse of the hard problem of consciousness. The hard problem of consciousness asks how the organic processes...
William of Saint-Thierry’s exploration on the theme of ‘resurrection’ in his moral reading of the Song of Songs argues for an eschatological orientation for the human person’s deification. This detailed research on the concept of ‘resurrection’ in the Exposition does not confine itself to a literary study of the term ‘resurrection’ as it appears in William’s the Latin critical edition text....