The article is devoted to the story The Schizophrenic Gospel by Bohumil Hrabal and a little-known interpretation of this prose bythe famous Polish philosopher and theologian Józef Tischner. Plato, Hegel, Berkeley, Heidegger: these four names in Tischner‘s work lead to Hrabal‘s thinking and his gospel. The philosopher discusses in detail the specific perception of reality which according to him...
The relationship between conscious experience and brain activity has intrigued scientists and philosophers for centuries. In the last decades, several theories have suggested different accounts for these relationships. These theories have developed in parallel, with little to no cross-talk among them. To advance research on consciousness, we established an adversarial collaboration between...
Abstract N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a psychedelic substance and is being used as a research tool in investigations of the neurobiology behind the human consciousness using different brain imaging techniques. The effects of psychedelics have commonly been studied using electroencephalography (EEG) and have been shown to produce suppression of alpha power and increase in signal diversity....
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of meditation on reaction ability. Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or as an end in itself. Psychomotor abilities were always considered to be the foundation for technical skill and tactical ability in any given sports. Despite its popularity,...
The subjective childbirth experience is crucial from a public health standpoint. There is a correlation between a negative childbirth experience and a poor mental state after birth, with effects that go far beyond the postpartum (PP) period. This paper offers a new approach as to how birthing experiences, and birth in general, can be navigated. The theory of set and setting proves that...
There is substantial literature on cognition, and indeed, it is conventional to assume that consciousness and cognitive processes are co-determinate. The question that Indian psychology asked millennia ago is more radical – Do we see the reality as it is? Without getting into disciplinary siloes of metaphysics and philosophy, this question is central to cognitive psychology. Human cognition can...
The greatest tragicomedy in the human enterprise, esp. in psychology, is the challenges in defining the philosophies of mind and consciousness. Euro-American philosophies assume that the philosophy of mind is the philosophy of consciousness. Vedānta, which is perhaps the only authentic philosophy of consciousness and not a philosophy of mind assumes that mind is a particular process through...
This paper explores dimensions of culture and practice that shape the cognitive pathways leading to different beliefs about God(s)’ mind(s). Varying socio-ecological sources of insecurity are linked to types and modes of cognitive processing, which in turn promote different constellations of beliefs about supernatural agents dubbed the heuristic and non-heuristic models of God(s)’ mind(s). The...
Objective. The arousal of consciousness during REM sleep can lead to states of sleep paralysis (SP), lucid dreaming (LD), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakening (FA). We know that recurrent SP is a symptom of sleep disorders like insomnia or narcolepsy. This study hypothesizes that other recurrent phenomena related to SP could also be signs of sleep deviations like insomnia and...
The study of consciousness has gained momentum in recent years by the scientific community. In this same sense, the relationship between cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence presents a fundamental theoretical framework in the study of integrated information theory (IIT) as a theory that makes its way into the knowledge of consciousness. However, there are few studies that integrate...