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July 7, 2023 Neil Carrier, Lisa L. Gezon
This chapter focuses on drugs in spiritual and religions contexts, considering their role in altered states of consciousness, divination and healing. The first part of the chapter presents the sub-discipline of ethnobotany and its contribution to anthropological ideas about hallucinogenic plant substances and their wider connection of drugs to shamanism and the spirit world. It also discusses...
July 6, 2023 Maxwell J D Ramstead, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer et al. 4 citations preprint
This paper aims to assess whether the recently proposed "inner screen model" of consciousness that follows from the free-energy principle (FEP) can be regarded as a minimal unifying model (MUM) of consciousness, thereby providing a common foundational model for consciousness studies, and integrating approaches to consciousness based on the FEP. We first present the inner screen model, which...
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging July 5, 2023 Agrima Srivastava, Alexandria Selloni, Zarina R Bilgrami et al.
Background: Basic self-disturbance, or anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), is a core feature of the schizophrenia spectrum. We propose a novel method of natural language processing to quantify ASEs in spoken language by direct comparison to an inventory of self-disturbance, the Inventory of Psychotic-Like Anomalous Self-Experiences (IPASE). We hypothesized that there would be increased...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) July 5, 2023 Ahana Banerjee
This article delves into the intricate interrelation of mind, matter, and consciousness from a metaphysical perspective. It explores the philosophical theories and cognitive science concepts that underpin our understanding of these three constituents of Metaphysical Phenomenology. The article aims to contribute to the enlightenment of human cognition by providing a comprehensive analysis of the...
Communications Biology July 5, 2023 Idan E Nemirovsky, Nicholas J M Popiel, Jorge Rudas et al.
Integrated Information Theory was developed to explain and quantify consciousness, arguing that conscious systems consist of elements that are integrated through their causal properties. This study presents an implementation of Integrated Information Theory 3.0, the latest version of this framework, to functional MRI data. Data were acquired from 17 healthy subjects who underwent sedation with...
Stanislavski Studies July 3, 2023 Virginie Magnat 1 citation
The connection between Konstantin Stanislavsky and Jerzy Grotowski is often overlooked or underplayed because there are substantial distinctions between them in terms of practices and approaches. In Part I of this essay, I examine Grotowski’s reflections on Stanislavsky’s final experiments, which the Polish director considered to constitute the culmination of the System, as well as the starting...
Religious Studies July 3, 2023 Philip Goff 4 citations
Abstract In this article, I offer a response to Joanna Leidenhag's book Mind Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation . Whereas Leidenhag argues that the panpsychist's demands for explanation of the mind lead naturally to demands for an explanation of the whole universe, I counter that (i) the panpsychist's explanatory demands are not necessarily quite as general as...
Medieval Mystical Theology July 3, 2023 Rebecca Stephens
ABSTRACT Philosophers of the theory-of-mind have always grappled with how to describe and image human mental processes, given the impossibility of accessing a perspective outside consciousness from which to analyse it. This article considers the history of models of the mind before exploring in detail Meister Eckhart’s conception of psychology, epistemology and ontology. Eckhart’s German...
Religions July 3, 2023 Zhuo Ni, Yue Guo 1 citation
With the settlement under the mountains, the Chinese Oroqen has started comprehensive interaction with other ethnic groups, and gradually adapted to the wider society. During this process, the shaman culture, which has accompanied the Oroqen’s daily life and social development for a long time, has changed accordingly. Through looking at the changes of shaman culture, the self-adjustment process...
July 3, 2023 Kikee Doma Bhutia
This chapter is an ethnographic study of the shindré’s or ‘spirit of the dead’ and the funerary rituals of the Tibetan Buddhist Lhopo of North Sikkim. It looks into oral narratives and experience-related narratives in order to understand both the nature of Buddhist religious belief and the circumstances that lead to such beliefs manifesting. Among the many rural villages in Sikkim, the belief...