The primary aim of this article is to establish a connection between expanded states of perception and aesthetic activity through a philosophical analysis of Aldous Huxley's psychedelic writings compiled in the work Moksha, alongside the ideas presented by Laurence Caruana in the Manifesto of Visionary Art. The specific objectives of this study are as follows: a) To present the psychedelic...
This paper explores the concept of consciousness from a mathematical perspective by using set theory. The individual minds of people can be represented as elements in a set, and the interaction between these sets of minds can be modeled using set operations. Although this mathematical model is an oversimplification of the complexity of human consciousness, it provides a theoretical framework...
This exploratory study aimed to investigate the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and quality of consciousness in individuals with insomnia disorder, in order to understand how the modulation of internal states may contribute to modifying the experience of consciousness during sleep difficulties. A total of 37 patients with insomnia disorder (mean age = 46.05 ± 18.16) and 41...
AbstractIn this chapter, the author investigates the structure of phenomenological time examining its dual nature as an outer flow, wherein the external world unfolds before us, and encapsulating personal sensations and thoughts. The author scrutinizes the phenomenology of having one experience after another and distinguishing it from other temporal phenomenal characters such as change,...
Phenomenological research has focused on embodiment. This paper examines how the body is experienced in passive contemplation, understood as a finite province of meaning in Alfred Schutz’s sense. The six features characteristic of any province of meaning (epoché, form of spontaneity, tension of consciousness, sense of self, temporality, and sociality) function distinctively in each province of...
This chapter outlines the rise of the performance of consciousness in play texts from the Middle Ages onwards, focusing on the key art movement of the 19th century of symbolism which concurred with the rise of the psychological sciences and a renewed interest in dreams. It explores how radical departures from the conventional tropes of the drama and storytelling facilitated the covert...
Christ Returns from the Jungle is an anthropological inquiry into the recent expansion from South America to Europe of the ayahuasca-based Santo Daime New Religious Movement (NRM).In it, the author addresses important research questions that could be used as a model for the study of all globalizing NRM's.These include the following: Who are the Europeans that choose to join this movement and...
Abstract Background Psychedelic use and its impact on well-being is garnering a lot of research attention, however, little has been done to understand the potential associations between multiple characteristics of the psychedelic experience and psychological flexibility (PF), which encompasses a conscious awareness of thoughts and behavior, allowing individuals to adapt to new experiences and...
The article examines the dialogue between British cognitive science expert Murray Shanahan and the large language model Claude 3 Opus about “self-awareness” of artificial intelligence (AI). Adopting a text-centric approach, the author analyzes AI’s discourse through a hermeneutic lens from a reader’s perspective, irrespective of whether AI possesses consciousness or personhood. The article...
After more than 30 years of extensive investigation, impressive progress has been made in identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). However, the functional role of spatiotemporally distinct consciousness-related neural activity in conscious perception is debated. An influential framework proposed that consciousness-related neural activities could be dissociated into two distinct...