Conscious Life Research Articles

THE IDEOLOGY OF HUMAN THOROUGHNESS AND ETERNAL LOVE IN THE BALLAD “PARVANA” BY HOVHANNES HOVHANNES TUMANYAN

Humanity has strived for thoroughness within all his conscious life,at the same time looking for it around,has tried to feel the delight of eternal love in the surrounding world.Both love and thoroughness in a human’s soul and around him create harmony.In the 21st century a very quickly changing human being,anyhow,also strives for this harmony.The ballad “Parvana” written by Hovhannes Tumanyan is a creation having all these ideas in its base,what is an unequalled value in the rich treasury of our culture.The ballad language,structure, imaging-expressive different tools of the ballad emphasize the unique typical style of all Armenians writer Hovhannes Tumanyan. In the "Parvana" ballad, the great writer also tried to give the etymology of the appearance of the butterflies circling around the Parvana lake, the light. He weaved a short story, expressing his thoughts and ideas. The gem of Armenian literature, "Parvana", was highly appreciated by contemporaries and has its own place in Armenian literature.

Is death included in international education guidelines? Towards education for a more conscious life

ABSTRACT The awareness of death and finitude define an educational field that is crucial yet absent from national curricula. Here we enquire into its presence in the guidelines of the international bodies that are most influential in educational and curricular change: Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. The objective was to determine whether death was included in the educational guidelines of these bodies in recent years. The study design was documentary, with analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data. We explored the presence of 24 chosen terms in documents having an influence on objectives and proposals for educational change and development. Our results showed that in the documents studied there were no educational guidelines or approaches that included death. We may conclude, then, that the pedagogical approaches of these organisations do not address the need for education for a more conscious life, embracing the educational dimension of death.

Process Axiology, Buddhism, Time, and Enduring Selves

Abstract This article explains that, why, and how process thinkers and Hartmanian axiologists affirm most, if not all, that Buddhism denies with respect to the positive goodness of ordinary conscious or aware lives, human and nonhuman. According to mainstream Buddhism, all the intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic values of ordinary human existence are illusions, so we should avoid being involved with or attaching ourselves to any of them. By contrast, process thought and axiology affirm, cultivate, nurture, and encourage involvement with and attachment to all positive human values. Buddhism insists on the illusory nature of all intrinsic values (e.g., individual human selves, including ourselves), all extrinsic values (e.g., the everyday practical, useful, and sensory objects, processes, and activities of life), and all systemic values (e.g., all human thoughts, beliefs, and systems, except for the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path). Process thinkers and Hartmanian axiologists insist that such things are very real and should be taken with utmost seriousness. By “illusory,” Buddhists may mean nothing more than that all such things are temporal, fleeting, transient. For this reason, they claim, all attachment to or positive valuation of such things leads to suffering. I fully agree with the transience of all momentary actualities, but I react to and deal very differently with the positive values involved in such transience.

Life and repetition in Husserl's analyses from the first half of the 1920s

AbstractIn his later writings, Husserl posits the original life of transcendental consciousness as the ultimate subject of phenomenological inquiry. Through self‐criticism in his work, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, Husserl realises that the transcendence of representation remains unnoticed after the transcendental reduction. Consequently, he develops the method of apodictic reduction to reveal what is apodictic in consciousness. This method specifically reveals the living presence, as well as the constitution of immanent consciousness, to which the transcendence of representation belongs. Husserl refers to this transcendence as the first transcendence, in contrast to the second transcendence of the constitution of the world. The constitution of the first transcendence is not separate from the living streaming presence but rather belongs to the life of consciousness itself. And it is only through this transcendence of representation that the identifiable (and re‐identifiable) I with its life is constituted.

The Influence of Religion on Economic Development

Religion is one of the most important institutions in the process of socialization. Which has a profound effect on a thinking and behavior of individuals and groups. As well Religion affects economic system and is an important part of regulating economic life of individuals, however, nation building and national consciousness are based on the national economy. An important part of the preservation and development of nations is through the economy. Culture, religion and social traditions play an important role in shaping the economic status of nations. This is an important part of sanctified the work, work ethic, and love of work. Some opinion believe that religions have a profound effect on the way of life of individuals and groups. So that the basis of work, production and trade is sanctify mundane efforts. At the same time, it distorts the topics related to squandering and social virtues. This study is qualitative research, the aim of the study is to present the relationship between religion and the economy. As a result of this study, we found that religion and economics are two socio-cultural phenomena, and there is a strong influence and interaction between them. The level of influence and the relationship between them varies from one society to another. Religion also has strong influences on national economic development; therefore, religious discourse can play a powerful role in the process of encouraging the development of work culture and work ethics in societies. Reflecting economic growth in societies.

Two Levels of Integrated Information Theory: From Autonomous Systems to Conscious Life.

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is one of the most prominent candidates for a theory of consciousness, although it has received much criticism for trying to live up to expectations. Based on the relevance of three issues generalized from the developments of IITs, we have summarized the main ideas of IIT into two levels. At the second level, IIT claims to be strictly anchoring consciousness, but the first level on which it is based is more about autonomous systems or systems that have reached some other critical complexity. In this paper, we argue that the clear gap between the two levels of explanation of IIT has led to these criticisms and that its panpsychist tendency plays a crucial role in this. We suggest that the problems of IIT are far from being "pseudoscience", and by adding more necessary elements, when the first level is combined with the second level, IIT can genuinely move toward an appropriate theory of consciousness that can provide necessary and sufficient interpretations.

A photoluminescent hydrogen-bonded biomass aerogel for sustainable radiative cooling.

Passive radiant cooling is a potentially sustainable thermal management strategy amid escalating global climate change. However, petrochemical-derived cooling materials often face efficiency challenges owing to the absorption of sunlight. We present an intrinsic photoluminescent biomass aerogel, which has a visible light reflectance exceeding 100%, that yields a large cooling effect. We discovered that DNA and gelatin aggregation into an ordered layered aerogel achieves a solar-weighted reflectance of 104.0% in visible light regions through fluorescence and phosphorescence. The cooling effect can reduce ambient temperatures by 16.0°C under high solar irradiance. In addition, the aerogel, efficiently produced at scale through water-welding, displays high reparability, recyclability, and biodegradability, completing an environmentally conscious life cycle. This biomass photoluminescence material is another tool for designing next-generation sustainable cooling materials.

Methods of Cognitive and Contextual Behavioral Areas of Psychotherapy in the Discourse of Conscious Living and Working with Emotional Dysregulation

Emotional dysregulation is a pathological condition characterized by insufficient or inadequate regulation of emotions. It can manifest itself as excessive intensity and duration of emotional reactions, as well as difficulties in managing and maintaining emotional stability. People with emotional dysregulation often feel an internal conflict between opposing desires and needs. For example, they may simultaneously strive for intimacy with other people and fear rejection, or strive for independence, autonomy in relationships, and, at the same time, fear the loss of attention to themselves and support. The article reviews modern scientifically evidence-based areas of cognitive and contextual behavioral psychotherapy based on the processes of awareness to work with emotional regulation; specific exercises are provided to work with cognitive distortions that lead to dysfunctional thoughts; visualization practice for working with cognitive division is demonstrated; introduces the concept of radical acceptance.

Time in the Works of F.M. Dostoevsky: Ontological and Anthropological Interpretations

The article analyzes the problem of time in the following works by F.M. Dostoevsky: the novel “Demons” and the novella “Notes from the Underground”. The main method of the article is anthropological analysis, which will help achieve the purpose of this study and show the connection between man and time. The author suggests moving away from the already familiar interpretation of time in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, namely, to stop considering time as an ontological category and talk about eschatological and apocalyptic time or even about overcoming it. The study analyzes the views of N.A. Berdyaev, M.M. Bakhtin and V.A. Podoroga on this problem in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, their shortcomings are revealed and an alternative, anthropological interpretation of time is proposed. It is, in our opinion, that is the closest to the truth in the space of F.M. Dostoevsky’s philosophical anthropology. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author for the first time in the scientific literature substantiates the idea that time in the selected works of F.M. Dostoevsky appears only with a person, becomes a property of his conscious life and is not an ontological, but an anthropological category. A person becomes someone who lives in time because he is “chained to himself, looking inside his self” (F.I. Girenok). But at the same time, a person does not live in space, because he does not turn to what is outside of it. The closeness of a person in himself makes him a temporary, not a spatial being, which, in our opinion, was demonstrated by F.M. Dostoevsky.

Moments of Willing: On the Existential Power to Will a Change to Self and World

ABSTRACT ‘Will’ might be a term for the energy that moves individual lives forward. ‘Wilfulness’ references character: how exercises of will characterise an individual’s life. ‘Intention’ focuses on the aim of an act of willing – while not everything one wills is what one intends – and ‘desire’ refers to the wish for something – but not necessarily something one either wills or intends to happen. ‘Motivation’ describes the reason behind a particular act of willing. All these terms might be distinguished from ‘agency’, a more general capacity to have an effect on the world and also to react to the world. A conceptual complex such as the above, under the rubric of an individual’s ‘existential power’, introduces the possibility of better doing justice to the phenomenological complexity of the conscious lives of research subjects, and also the dignity of that living. The life-history of one Rickey Hirsch is briefly adduced as case-study.

Is artificial intelligence the great filter that makes advanced technical civilisations rare in the universe?

This study examines the hypothesis that the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), culminating in the emergence of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), could act as a "Great Filter" that is responsible for the scarcity of advanced technological civilisations in the universe. It is proposed that such a filter emerges before these civilisations can develop a stable, multiplanetary existence, suggesting the typical longevity (L) of a technical civilization is less than 200 years. Such estimates for L, when applied to optimistic versions of the Drake equation, are consistent with the null results obtained by recent SETI surveys, and other efforts to detect various technosignatures across the electromagnetic spectrum. Through the lens of SETI, we reflect on humanity's current technological trajectory – the modest projections for L suggested here, underscore the critical need to quickly establish regulatory frameworks for AI development on Earth and the advancement of a multiplanetary society to mitigate against such existential threats. The persistence of intelligent and conscious life in the universe could hinge on the timely and effective implementation of such international regulatory measures and technological endeavours.

Sfântul Augustin despre memoria lucrurilor și memoria spirituală

Augustine is fascinated by the domains that memory dominates, as well as by the mystery that envelops them. Their classification cannot lead to the inclusion of what it represents in the soul, but you can be surprised by the faculties that it can coordinate or stimulate in one way or another. More precisely, it surprises you to discover contents in your memory that we believe come from outside, from an objective reality that our senses probe and offer us. From the life of consciousness ‒ which, at every investigation, meets us as a mystery, which constitutes the originality of Augustine's thinking ‒ memory is also a part, but not only it is lived in this way, but also time, like any faculty or aspect over which consciousness falls in its movement of self-absorption.

Living with oral appliances: consumption, health and oral care practices

There has been a growing interest in the connection between consumption and health, particularly in relation to consumerism in healthcare services and consumption’s impact on population health. Initially the idea of the ‘healthcare consumer’ was met with extreme scepticism, as it was argued that this idea was a misnomer and that the concept was threatening to fragment healthcare. Yet more recent empirical work into consumption practices and health has shown that the relationship is much more nuanced than previously thought. This article takes the case of daily care for oral devices and seeks to further unpack the relationship between consumption and health. The results are based on analysis of data collected in 2019 from the Philippines and Russia. The analysis focuses on how adjustments are made to the relationships between the body, consciousness and everyday life when living with oral devices (dentures, aligners and mouthguards). It examines the daily practices associated with care for such devices, examining the spaces, materials and practices involved in daily oral care. The findings demonstrate that in Russia and the Philippines several ‘bundles’ of consumption practices exist, reflecting quite different teleoaffective structures for consumption practices. The study also uncovers the ‘distributed agency’ of oral devices examining how they shape daily life.

REFLECTION OF MYTHICAL PLOTS IN CHILDREN'S GAME FOLKLORE

It is known that the conscious beginning of the cultural life of any nation is rooted in a myth. From a historical point of view, myth is the first spiritual and cultural form of human consciousness and retains its leadership character to this day. The golden core of every culture is a value system fueled by a mythical worldview. In other words, a myth is a complex worldview closely related to the laws of formation of each culture. The myth depicts the inner spiritual movement of the conscious life of mankind and its relationship with the surrounding nature and the social environment. The myth is reflected in culture as a whole as a model of the world in human consciousness. Mythical narratives arise from the purpose of depicting the world, which raises various questions in people's minds, as compensation for the need to create a complete model by improving unfinished parts of the world that have not yet been "realized" by mythical consciousness. For example, he explains countless questions in his own way, for example, how heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, humanity and animals, and other natural phenomena appeared, thereby creating a mythical model of the world in human consciousness. The article shows that such a representation of real life is the main form of mythical consciousness. In addition, game elements in any myth are analyzed and described. The purpose and objective of the article are to distinguish mythical plots in children's game folklore and emphasise game elements. It is determined that the meaningful and structural commonality of the game with the myth is clearly visible, primarily in children's play.

Соотношение свободы и насилия как одна из основополагающих проблем мысли

Introduction The main topic of this article is the method of solving a fundamental problem of the relationship between a man and the world. The author proposes to accept the concepts of violence and freedom as such horizons of relations, because these concepts can be understood as main plots of human conscious life. They also may be the sides of the dialectical confrontation. The present study uses the onto-hermeneutic method combined with a historico-philosophical analysis. Theoretical analysis In the course of work, we considered and made clear the concepts of questioning and inquiring, of liberty and freedom, and of violence. Special attention will be paid to clarifying the acceptance of conditions of some question as a fundamental problem. Among them there are: the necessity of occurrence, conditionality of perception for consciousness from the pattern of consciousness, dependence of the way of life on the manner of asking and solving this question. The author claims that the question of the correlation between violence and freedom is a fundamental problem of human activity. During this clarification, the concepts of violence and freedom are explicated in the works of K. Marx and F. Engels, G. V. Plekhanov, B. Spinoza, and Aristotle. Conclusion. In the course of meditation the author offered a number of interconnected definitions of freedom and violence, and concluded on the need for recognizing violence as a systematic phenomenon of social reality. Violence pervades all history of humanity, and can be reflected in the history of thinking and art.

Consciousness, the affectome, and human life

I have been working on interactions between conscious and non-conscious processes since the late 1970s. In this commentary, I offer a perspective on conscious/non-conscious interactions that might a useful adjunct to the Human Affectome Project as it evolves.

Coenesthesia or the Immediate Feeling of Existence: Maine de Biran and the Problem of the Unconscious between Physiology and Philosophy

Abstract The term “coenesthesia” was introduced at the end of the eighteenth century by the German physiologist Johann Christian Reil to designate the general perception of the living body through the nerves. Over the course of the nineteenth century, this notion circulated widely not only in Germany, but also in France, where it was developed in particular by Théodule Ribot. However, a good sixty years before Ribot, Maine de Biran had already employed the notion of “coenesthesia” to indicate the “immediate feeling of existence,” which he distinguished from the apperception of the self in relation to the body. What Biran emphasized, in his philosophical appropriation of “coenesthesia,” is the impersonal and mostly unconscious nature of this feeling, which never leaves us and plays a key role in the shaping of our personal and conscious life, unnoticeably influencing the course of our ideas, our character, and the emotional tone of our perception of the world. The purpose of this article is to study Biran’s philosophical use of the notion of “coenesthesia” in the last phase of his philosophical reflection (1823–1824) in relation to the emergence of the problem of the unconscious.

Educational guidance and continuous training of the university professor. Reflections from an experience in Ecuador

In recent decades, the search for meaning in the tasks of university teachers has led to consider the importance of educational guidance as a type of pedagogical activity aimed at satisfying the change that involves preparing the teacher as a guide and facilitator of opportunities for dialogue and reflection with students so that they can understand their experiences, develop a sense of autonomous and conscious life, as well as an adequate configuration of their life project. However, in order to make this process a reality, teachers must assume educational guidance as the cornerstone of their pedagogical and didactic work. In spite of the clarity of this objective, the antecedents show the historical and present shortcomings that act to its detriment. Qualitative research based on observation, interviews, and focus groups was implemented, which yielded the diagnosis of the state of the question and guidelines for its improvement as the main results. These results led to the conclusion that it is necessary to implement teacher training processes solidly based on theoretical, empirical and practical principles.

The (Not-So-)Private Mind: Why Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Is and Is Not a Failure

Abstract: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury attempts to represent first-person experience in a radical fashion. In what I call (paradoxically) “free indirect discourse in the first person,” Faulkner ostensibly presents both thought thought and thought below the level of awareness together in one stream of text. The Quentin section in particular relies on an idealistic picture of language as meaningful in itself, apart from any intersubjective context or significant use, as though we could bypass communication and look inside Quentin’s head, finding not the brain but the “exact language” of his conscious life. I consider this temptation by way of Wittgenstein’s critique of the privacy of the mental. Wittgenstein’s aim, I argue, is not to deny or demote interiority, but rather to impugn a certain picture of how “the inner” must look — a realm composed of private objects to which the “I” alone has access. I thus suggest that we think of Quentin as an experiment, an appeal. Faulkner tries to reveal a mind in the brutal fullness of its suffering without forcing that mind to address us: to tell us that they suffer . I contend that this appeal fails, and in failing reveals the manner in which the (not-so-private) mind is essentially embedded in a shared, intersubjective world.

Нетрадиционные способы получения информации (на примере гипноза) в расследовании преступлений: да или нет?

Currently, three main points of view have been formulated in scientific circles on the possibility of using non-traditional methods of obtaining forensic information: in the criminal proceedings framework, the use of non-traditional methods to obtain information is unacceptable; the use of non-traditional methods to obtain in-formation in the criminal proceedings field is permissible; the use of non-traditional methods to obtain informa-tion in the field of criminal proceedings is permissible only in extreme cases for the most high-profile criminal cases, when it is not possible to obtain information in any other way. However, it is important to note that many of these study fields are officially considered pseudoscientific. Despite this, the public interest in extraterrestrial forces, their potential influence on human consciousness and overall life is continuously fuelled by media publi-cations, television programs, and other sources. At the same time, there are still widespread beliefs among people regarding the possibility of individual possession of supernatural abilities, such as hypnosis and palm reading, among others. In light of the above, issues related to the use of non-traditional techniques for obtaining criminal intelligence (for example, through hypnosis) in investigative work are being explored. Like any other activity, the use of non-traditional methods for obtaining information and their significance in the disclosure and investigation of criminal offences is not free from specific characteristics and challenges. 1) There are issues that arise during the selecting stage an investigator’s technique for obtaining information. One such issue is the con-cern of the investigating officer regarding the unconventional methods’ use of information acquisition. In this regard, we are not referring to methods that may harm human health or life, or pose a threat thereof (the inappropriateness of their use is undisputed). 2) There are challenges related to the lack of regulatory guidance on the process of utilizing unconventional information gathering techniques (with the exception of the polygraph). 3) There are problems arising at the stage of assessing the validity of information obtained through unconven-tional methods, and the possibility of establishing its investigative significance. 4) There is a perception among the general public that persists despite scientific refutation, regarding the existence of supernatural forces. These circumstances determine the significance of the research topic. The issues of both theoretical and practical signi-ficance are identified, solutions to address these issues are proposed, and recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of investigative activities through the use of non-traditional techniques are developed. Research methods: observation, description, comparison, analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, generalization, analogy, etc. The empirical basis of the study is the materials of investigative and judicial practice. The purpose of the study is to analyze the problems that arise when using non-traditional methods of obtaining information, along with their subsequent evaluation and the feasibility of utilizing them as evidence in criminal cases.