Religions
February 24, 2023
José Eduardo Porcher, Fernando Carlucci
2 citations
In this paper, we take our cue from Kevin Schilbrack’s admonishment that the philosophy of religion needs to take religious practices seriously as an object of investigation. We do so by offering Afro-Brazilian traditions as an example of the methodological poverty of current philosophical engagement with religions that are not text-based, belief-focused, and institutionalized. Anthropologists...
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
February 21, 2023
David Rudrauf, G. Sergeant-Perhtuis, Yvain Tisserand et al.
5 citations
Relating explicit psychological mechanisms and observable behaviours is a central aim of psychological and behavioural science. One of the challenges is to understand and model the role of consciousness and, in particular, its subjective perspective as an internal level of representation (including for social cognition) in the governance of behaviour. Toward this aim, we implemented the...
Current Directions in Psychological Science
February 21, 2023
Zoltan Dienes, Peter Lush
18 citations
To varying degrees, people have the capacity to alter their subjective experience such that it misrepresents reality in ways consistent with their goals and such that the misrepresentation can be sustained over at least minutes despite clear contrary evidence. In other words, people have a capacity for phenomenological control. People can use this capacity to fulfill requirements of social...
Cognition
February 21, 2023
Leonard Dung, Albert Newen
The science of animal consciousness investigates (i) which animal species are conscious (the distribution question) and (ii) how conscious experience differs in detail between species (the quality question). We propose a framework which clearly distinguishes both questions and tackles both of them. This two-tier account distinguishes consciousness along ten dimensions and suggests cognitive...
Trials
February 20, 2023
Javier García-campayo, Rinchen Hijar-Aguinaga, Yolanda López-del-hoyo et al.
6 citations
Introduction: The efficacy of interventions based on mindfulness and compassion has been demonstrated in both clinical and general population, and in different social contexts. These interventions include so-called attentional and constructive meditation practices, respectively. However, there is a third group, known as deconstructive meditation practices, which has not been scientifically...
Research, Society and Development
February 18, 2023
Eleni Mitsea, Athanasios Drigas, Charalabos A. Skianis
11 citations
Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are specialized systems that allow users to control computer applications using their brain waves. With the arrival of consumer-grade electroencephalography (EEG) equipment, brain-controlled systems began to find fertile ground in mental training. One particular area that is gradually gaining attention is that of mindfulness training. In this paper, the results...
February 17, 2023
Gabriel Teixeira de Medeiros
The Out of Body Experiences (OBE) are the subject of research since the beginning of last century, however there is still no screening questionnaire for this phenomenon.Nevertheless, the literature is controversial about the definition and understanding of OBE and its etiology, which suggests the existence of multiple phenomena under the same term OBE.In a qualitative and quantitative research...
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
February 17, 2023
Katherine C. Bassil, Dorothee Horstkötter
38 citations
The generation of three-dimensional cerebral organoids from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) has facilitated the investigation of mechanisms underlying several neuropsychiatric disorders, including stress-related disorders, namely major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Generating hPSC-derived neurons, cerebral organoids, and even assembloids (or multi-organoid...
Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
February 17, 2023
Ronnie Videla, Eduardo Ravanal, Carolina Pino-Astorga et al.
3 citations
Creativity is considered one of the skills crucial for 21 Century to face the challenges proposed by the 2030 education agenda (Frey & Osborne 2013; OECD, 2018, Reimers & Chung 2019). In our reading, active methodologies such as project-based learning and design thinking are often seen as fundamental in favoring creativity together oriented towards individual, social, and planetary well-being...
Neural Computation
February 17, 2023
Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio
In this view, we address the problem of consciousness, and although we focus on its human presentation, we note that the phenomenon is present in numerous nonhuman species and use findings from a variety of animal studies to explain our hypothesis for how consciousness is made. Consciousness occurs when mind contents, such as perceptions and thoughts, are spontaneously identified as belonging...