Health is frequently addressed from a dualistic perspective that separates mind and body. The biomedical paradigm tends to focus on observable and measurable symptoms, focusing on objective indicators of disease and relegating subjective experience to a mere epiphenomenon. Moreover, the medical system tends to assume that experts must solve health issues while patients passively receive...
Artificial intelligence, also known as AI, has led the trend of evolution in the past and future decades, and the potential of consciousness artificial intelligence emerges as a renovative field to address. The computer machine aims to process repetitive and tedious tasks for humans since its concept was first developed. Whether AI is conscious does not raise unprecedented discussion before the...
Death anxiety, defined as strong worry and concern about death and dying, can have a substantial impact on a person's mental health and quality of life. This study investigates the effectiveness of mindfulness activities in reducing death anxiety by encouraging a present-focused and welcoming mindset. Mindfulness, which includes essential features such as observing, describing, responding with...
Abstract Identifying the neuronal markers of consciousness is key to supporting the different scientific theories of consciousness. Neuronal markers of consciousness can be defined to reflect either the brain signatures underlying specific conscious content or those supporting different states of consciousness, two aspects traditionally studied separately. In this paper, we introduce a...
Throughout the history of philosophy, ethics has often been a source of guidance on how to live a meaningful life. Accordingly, when the ethical foundations of mindfulness are considered, an important question arises concerning the role of meditation in providing meaning. The present article proposes a new theoretical route for understanding the links between mindfulness meditation and...
Fruitful comparison of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences requires a degree of phenomenological nuance. Some shared features of these phenomena, such as encounters and communications with supernatural entities, are obfuscated by scientific and clinical terminology. Other supposed distinctions are based on an atemporal view of dynamic experiences. In Section 2 of this...
IntroductionThe transition of experience from unconscious to conscious, the emergent process, is a crucial topic in consciousness studies. Three frameworks exist to explain the process: (1) consciousness arises in an all-or-none manner; (2) consciousness arises gradually; (3) consciousness arises either all at once or gradually, depending on the level of stimulus processing (low- vs....
We discuss the striking similarities between Friedrich Nietzsche's and Wilfrid Sellars's respective philosophies of mind. Drawing especially on recent Nietzsche scholarship by Riccardi and Katsafanas, we argue that the Nietzschean picture of consciousness is essentially the same as Sellars's view of conceptually structured thought. In particular, we argue that both consider structured thinking...
The field of contemplative studies honours self-reflection in inquiry; and narrative and introspection, seed a symbiotic terrain. But while the land of the contemplative flourishes in the first person, its methodological discourse is complicated by the presence of the third person voice dominating academic research. How do we describe a contemplative methodology as a narrative/aesthetical...
The main purpose of this chapter is to introduce Embodied Spiritual Inquiry (ESI) as a novel participatory research method in the context of spiritual and contemplative studies. ESI applies Albareda and Romero's interactive embodied meditations (Ferrer 2003) in the context of a participatory research paradigm inspired by Cooperative Inquiry (CI; Heron 1996) in order to access multiple human...