Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
June 26, 2022
Anthony J. Lambert
ABSTRACT For most of the twentieth century, consciousness was the elephant in the living room of science – we all knew it was there, but no‐one wanted to talk about it. Aspirations for a science of consciousness faced an array of formidable philosophical, theoretical and methodological challenges, thought by many to be insurmountable. In recent decades, pessimism has been replaced by increasing...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
June 25, 2022
Paulina Wróbel-knybel, Michał Flis, Joanna Róg et al.
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state associated with the inability to move while conscious. Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis (RISP) is a type of REM parasomnia. Individuals experiencing anxiety disorders, PTSD, exposure to chronic stress, or shift work are at risk of developing this sleep disorder. This study aimed to assess: (1) the prevalence, frequency, and...
Religions
June 24, 2022
Johannes Bronkhorst
15 citations
This paper proposes to study mystical experience by contrasting it with “ordinary” experience, i.e., with standard consciousness. It emphasises the construed nature of standard consciousness and the role that the mutual connectedness of mental contents plays in its construction. It then shows that removal of the factors that are responsible for the “making” of standard consciousness accounts...
Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research
June 22, 2022
Paul C. Mocombe
This article vindicates the notion of Platonic forms within Mocombe's theory of phenomenological structuralism (PS).Mocombe uses his consciousness field theory to ground Plato's notions of forms as scientific fact.Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and things of the multiverse, which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
June 21, 2022
R. Evrard, E. Pratte, Th. Rabeyron
13 citations
In their recent paper, Parnia and colleagues propose a new label for the near‐death experience (NDE): recalled experience of death. They claimed NDEs are “authentic” only when an objective danger is present and that authentic NDEs have a proven core phenomenology. We consider that these claims are insufficiently supported by empirical data. NDEs appear as a continuum of heterogeneous...
Noûs
June 18, 2022
P. Epstein
: A recurring theme dominates recent philosophical debates about the nature of conscious perception: naïve realism’s opponents claim that the view is directly contradicted by empirical science. I argue that, despite their current popularity, empirical arguments against naïve realism are fundamentally flawed. The non-empirical premises needed to get from empirical scientific findings to...
PsyArXiv
June 18, 2022
Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin, Cedric Cannard et al.
preprint
The nature of consciousness is considered one of the most perplexing and persistent mysteries in science. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within today’s neuroscience is that all aspects of consciousness arise solely from interactions among neurons in the brain. However, the origin...
Sleep Science
June 17, 2022
Michael Raduga
Objective: Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study was that the facial muscles electric activity during LD corresponds to specific sounds....
medRxiv
June 16, 2022
Caroline L. Alves, Thaise G. L. de O. Toutain, Joel Augusto Moura Porto et al.
preprint
There is a growing interest in the medical use of psychedelic substances as preliminary studies using them for psychiatric disorders have shown positive results. In particularly, one of these substances is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) an agonist serotonergic psychedelic that can induce profound alterations in state of consciousness. In this work, we propose a computational method based on...
Al-Farabi
June 15, 2022
V. Filatov
The article compares the history of solving the “mystery of life” and modern scientific and philosophical approaches to the “mystery of mind”. The main steps in solving the “mystery of life” are described. Such obstacles in the way of revealing the connections between the processes of mind and brain processes as “cognitive closeness”, “gap in explanation”, and “difficult problem” are...