Heliyon
March 30, 2023
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Diego Martin Mateos, Ramón Guevara
6 citations
Our purpose is to address the biological problem of finding foundations of the organization in the collective activity among cell networks in the nervous system, at the meso/macroscale, giving rise to cognition and consciousness. But in doing so, we encounter another problem related to the interpretation of methods to assess the neural interactions and organization of the neurodynamics, because...
Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience
March 30, 2023
Michael Silberstein
3 citations
There is growing evidence that brain processes involve multiscale overlapping networks and that the mapping between such neural processes and cognitive functions is many-to-many. So, the answer to the question what spatiotemporal scales in the brain are most relevant for cognition, action, experience, etc., is that several inextricably interconnected and integrated scales are relevant. There is...
Journal of Neuroscience
March 29, 2023
Zakaryah Abdulkarim, Arvid Guterstam, Zineb Hayatou et al.
Body ownership and the sense of agency are two central aspects of bodily self-consciousness. While multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural correlates of body ownership and agency separately, few studies have investigated the relationship between these two aspects during voluntary movement when such experiences naturally combine. By eliciting the moving rubber hand illusion...
SMARATUNGGA JURNAL OF EDUCATION AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 29, 2023
M. Gargiulo
In recent decades, the academic literature on mindfulness has grown rapidly as it uncovers similarities and differences between mindfulness practices in Buddhism, Stoic philosophy, and Christian meditation. This research, which is still in its early stages, aims to distinguish the specific notes or elements that represent each of these mindfulness practices within a conceptual framework....
Journal of Psychology Research
March 28, 2023
Tânia Stoltz, Marcelo da Veiga, Ulrich Weger
3 citations
This study aims to discuss the possibility of becoming conscious of certain aspects of one's own existence through creative activity.The discussion involves Piagetian constructivism and Steiner's ideas about human development and is justified by the contribution of creative activity to the development of autonomy, according to Piaget, and to the development of an ethical individuality,...
Religions
March 28, 2023
J. Stephenson
The Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha is an understudied text within Kashmir Śaivism, notable for its rich description of the inner structure of consciousness vis-à-vis the body and the natural world, and esotericization of Left-Handed Tantric Practice. Furthermore, it is also significant in its form; like the Buddhist dohākoṣas it consists of Apabhraṃśa verses with accompanying Sanskrit...
bioRxiv
March 28, 2023
Leslie D. Claar, Irene Rembado, Jacqulyn R. Kuyat et al.
preprint
Perturbational complexity analysis predicts the presence of consciousness in volunteers and patients by stimulating the brain with brief pulses, recording electroencephalographic (EEG) responses, and computing their spatiotemporal complexity. We examined the underlying neural circuits in mice by directly stimulating cortex while recording with EEG and Neuropixels probes during wakefulness and...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 28, 2023
Colin H. Simonds
6 citations
Abstract Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or ayahuasca, global contemplative practices have established effective systems of implementing, directing, and integrating the very kinds of non-ordinary experiences central to psychedelic use. However, contemplative traditions are largely absent from the...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
March 28, 2023
Christopher Timmermann, Leor Roseman, Sharad Haridas et al.
217 citations
Psychedelics have attracted medical interest, but their effects on human brain function are incompletely understood. In a comprehensive, within-subjects, placebo-controlled design, we acquired multimodal neuroimaging [i.e., EEG-fMRI (electroencephalography-functional MRI)] data to assess the effects of intravenous (IV) N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) on brain function in 20 healthy volunteers....
Physics Essays
March 27, 2023
D. Radin
Beginning in 1998, a network of electronic random number generators located around the world has continuously recorded samples of truly random bits. The resulting data were used to explore a hypothesis that predicts the emergence of anomalous structure in randomness correlated with events that attract widespread human attention. A formal experiment testing this hypothesis from 1998 to 2015...