Cyril Costines
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Scientific Study of Consciousness. Psychedelics. Meditation. Floatation.
https://www.costines.info/
#AgE
#PalliativeCare
#Studie
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IGPP
19 days ago
#IGPPKolloquium
am 16.06.26, 15.15 Uhr live oder via zoom Anmeldung erbeten:
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IGPP
22 days ago
New Release: Psychedelic Harm Reduction (Springer, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences). Featuring a chapter by
@titoschmi.bsky.social
and Cyril
@costines.bsky.social
on the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences
shorturl.at/jQp4d
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Psychedelic Harm Reduction
This book on psychedelic harm reduction discusses psychedelic-related disorders such as psychosis, dissociative symptoms and anxiety and their treatment.
https://shorturl.at/jQp4d
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#ASC
#AXP
#CIRCE
Have you ever experienced an altered state of consciousness through breathwork, cannabis, stroboscopic light, floatation tanks, LSD, MDMA, meditation or psilocybin? Find out how your experience compares to that of thousands of others worldwide!
23 days ago
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Toward a Computational Phenomenology of Meditative Deconstruction: âLetting Goâ and the Deconstruction of Experience With Active Inference
Abstract. Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception, and more pleasant experience. However, the c...
https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article/38/7/1261/136965
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325002864?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email#bb0015
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Thomas Metzinger
about 1 month ago
There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/m78z2_v1
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Thomas Metzinger
about 1 month ago
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View of An algorithmic agent model of pure awareness and minimal experiences | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/12136/12566
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about 2 months ago
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Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello, A Unified Architecture for Meditative Transformation: Opacification and Restructuring in Shamatha and VipassanÄ - PhilArchive
Meditation research has produced extensive empirical data on the neural and psychological correlates of contemplative practice, yet lacks a unified computational framework that explains how meditation...
https://philarchive.org/rec/GAEAUA
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about 2 months ago
Meditierende fĂŒr Floating-Studie gesucht. Cyril
@costines.bsky.social
#Flotation
#Meditation
#Conlab
shorturl.at/5BxqX
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Neuroskeptic
2 months ago
Secular Mysticism: Entanglements of Science and Religion in Psychedelic Medicine
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42050063/
What I find interesting about the psychedelic boom is that we've been here before in the 60s and 70s. Compare this 2026 paper to a 1966 one!
www.jstor.org/stable/27504...
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#Bewusstseinskultur
#Endlichkeitskultur
Sterben lernen: Psychedelika, Meditation und Floatation als Werkzeuge einer sÀkularen Endlichkeitskultur?
www.leben-und-tod.de
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Azadeh Mozhdehfarahbakhsh
@marcwittmann.bsky.social
@kornmeierju.bsky.social
in front of Azadehâs poster presented at the 15th
#BIALFoundation
Symposium âBehind and Beyond the Brainâ, Porto
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IGPP
3 months ago
âNicht normalâ ist oft kein objektiver Befund, sondern ein Hinweis auf die Grenze unseres aktuellen Wissens: eine Zuschreibung fĂŒr PhĂ€nomene, die wir (noch) nicht hinreichend erklĂ€ren können đ
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IGPP
4 months ago
A decade of research exploring
#Floatation-REST
as a non-pharmacological intervention for stress and anxiety-related disorders Dr. Justin Feinstein, President and Director of Float Research Collective
#IGPPKolloquium
3.3.26, 15:15 pm CET via zoom. Register here:
shorturl.at/WhDTd
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"A decade of research exploring Floatation-REST as a non-pharmacological intervention for stress and anxiety-related disorders" - IGPP Institut fĂŒr Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
https://shorturl.at/WhDTd
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Thomas Metzinger
4 months ago
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Zeitschrift fĂŒr Theologie und Philosophie
Journal of Theology and Philosophy
https://ztp.jesuiten.org
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
5 months ago
A new article has been published in the
#PhiMiSci
special issue on structuralism in the science of consciousness: "The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self" by Jeff Yoshimi and Jason Ford.
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The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/11830
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MIT Press
5 months ago
Jakob
@hohwy.bsky.social
unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition:
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IGPP
5 months ago
Im Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (1940-2026) Ein Nachruf.
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Thomas Metzinger
5 months ago
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Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation
Despite decades of progress in the neuroscience of consciousness, prevailing empirical paradigms remain largely anchored in the study of typical, contâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005214
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IGPP
5 months ago
Hans Bender und das Institut fĂŒr Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene Vortrag von Eberhard Bauer & JĂŒrgen
@kornmeierju.bsky.social
anlÀsslich des 5. Pierre Janet-Symposiums am Samstag 24.01.26, 13-19 Uhr | Bender Forum, IGPP Freiburg
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Marc Wittmann
8 months ago
The very first micro-phenomenological study on experience during Floatation-REST from my lab at
@igpp.bsky.social
revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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The micro-phenomenology of Floatation-REST
This micro-phenomenological study examines altered states of consciousness (ASC) during Floatation-REST, a sensory isolation method where individuals lie in a tank filled with Epsom salt-saturated wat...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7301168/v1
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Marc Wittmann
7 months ago
The
@springernature.com
book "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" is out: 22 authors, 16 chapters. Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Musicology, Philosophy, ...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Marc Wittmann
5 months ago
An anniversary! Four years of
#Floatation-REST
@igpp.bsky.social
research with the
Floataway.com
cabin at Prana Freiburg: 2 doctoral theses, 2 master's theses, 2 third-party funding acquisitions, 3 publications, and here the lastest preprint:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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IGPP
6 months ago
Four years of research on
#Floatation-REST
at IGPP in the Gesundheitspraxis Prana Freiburg have led to doctoral projects by Helena Hruby and
[email protected]
. Thanks to the support of the Hans-Seidel-Stiftung and the Bial Foundation
www.prana-freiburg.de
© Tommi NĂŒbling
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IGPP
6 months ago
Call for Papers ! Submit your article to the Journal Qualitative Research in Psychology for a Special Issue on: Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research Co-Guest Editor:
@marcwittmann.bsky.social
#ConsciousnessResearch
shorturl.at/VYKFF
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Special Issue: Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research
Explore Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness: Submit your work to this qualitative enquiry into the extra-sensory dimensions of human experience
https://shorturl.at/VYKFF
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6 months ago
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Active inference, computational phenomenology, and advanced meditation: Toward the formalization of the experience of meditation
Computational phenomenology has emerged as a powerful framework for investigating advanced meditation states and stages, and meditative development anâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763425005408
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Evan Thompson
6 months ago
I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded the Mind-Matter Prize by the Society for Mind-Matter Research. (See "news" at the top right). My prize-acceptance Lecture will be at the Society's Models of Consciousness Conference in Copenhagen, October 12-16, 2026.
www.mindmatter.de/index.html
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Society for Mind-Matter Research
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Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation
Despite decades of progress in the neuroscience of consciousness, prevailing empirical paradigms remain largely anchored in the study of typical, contâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005214
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IGPP
7 months ago
Das Geist-Materie-Problem und die Grenzen von Wahrnehmung und Erkenntnis Vortrag von
@kornmeierju.bsky.social
16.12.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten:
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IGPP
7 months ago
âMan kann nur hoffen, dass sich die
#Parapsychologie
weiter ausbreitetâ Unser Kollege
@marcwittmann.bsky.social
ĂŒber die Forschung am IGPP
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Marc Wittmann: âMan kann nur hoffen, dass sich die Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet"
Wie nĂ€hert man sich paranormalen PhĂ€nomenen? Mit rigoroser Anwendung wissenschaftlicher Methoden, sagt der Psychologe Marc Wittmann. Ein GesprĂ€ch ĂŒber Informationen aus der Zukunft, die Kommunikation ...
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Big Think
10 months ago
What if there were a drug that allowed us to study consciousness in its most basic form? Christopher Timmermann describes the potential of 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic that strips away everything but awareness. Read the full article here:
bigthink.com/neuropsych/5...
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IGPP
7 months ago
SpiritualitÀt trifft Wissenschaft - ein lebendiger Austausch zwischen spiritueller Erfahrung und wissenschaftlicher Forschung Psychologe Christian Meyer im Dialog mit Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott 28.11.25 |19:00 Uhr| LIVE vor Ort oder online via Zoom
shorturl.at/k2euh
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IGPP
7 months ago
Der Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IGPP, berÀt Menschen in spirituellen oder meditationsbedingten Krisen
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Thomas Metzinger
8 months ago
Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling âletting goâ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/evfg3_v1
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Thomas Metzinger
8 months ago
Christopher Timmermann
profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.timmermann...
wins the âŹ20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution:
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8 months ago
George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the ⏠20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
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for 2025 with this contribution:
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IGPP
8 months ago
Beratung bei spirituellen und meditationsinduzierten Krisen Vortrag von Dr. Liane Hofmann & Dr. Ulrich Ott 11.11.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten:
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Marc Wittmann
8 months ago
On November 26 our @SpringerNature book in commemoration of Bud (A.D.) Craig's legacy is out. See TOC with 14 contributions on the insular cortex, bodily self, emotion, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, pain, mindfulness, touch, music, and subjective time.
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The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between the bodily self, emotion, and subjective time perception and consciousness.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-94035-4
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Shawn Prest
over 1 year ago
New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! đ§ Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.đ§”
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8 months ago
SUMMA PARAPSYCHOLOGICA 50 Jahre auf der Suche nach dem Heiligen Gral - Walter von Lucadou
#Parapsychologie
trifft Physik: Dieses Buch wirft einen wissenschaftlichen Blick auf die
#Psychokinese
â eine echte Herausforderung fĂŒr klassische Naturwissenschaften
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IGPP
9 months ago
Koma-Erfahrungen. Eine EinfĂŒhrung in das Spektrum möglicher BewusstseinszustĂ€nde im Koma Vortrag von Dr. Michael Nahm 21.10.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten:
shorturl.at/SZham
#Parapsychologie
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IGPP
9 months ago
Lucid awareness in nonresponsive patients: A âlocked-in experienceâ and its implications New papaer by our colleague, Michael Nahm, et al. about consciousness during coma and the traumatic locked-in experience
journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/js...
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Rebecca Boehme
9 months ago
My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live đ€©! First screening done, several more booked. The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw đ
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
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9 months ago
On the Banks of the River Styx: New Perspectives on
#TerminalLucidity
and other Near-Death Phenomena Newly published book, for which our colleague Michael Nahm served as lead editor, provides an overview of current research on the topic of near-death experiences, including comas.
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Marc Wittmann
9 months ago
My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...
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Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST
YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDqIkM3mB0
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Marc Wittmann
9 months ago
Zeit, Raum, Welt und Ich? Photobastei 2.0, ZĂŒrich, 29.10.2025, 19:00 - 21:00 Uhr: Eine Diskussion zu psychedelischen Erfahrungen und Bewusstsein mit Susanne Schmetkamp, Kurt Stocker, Marc Wittmann
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Alle Veranstaltungen
Alle Veranstaltungen in ZĂŒrich und der Region.
https://www.zuerich.com/de/events-nachtleben/event-finden?eventId=1179587518
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IGPP
9 months ago
Zeit, Raum Welt und Ich? Wie Psychedelika uns und unser Bewusstsein verÀndern. Diskussion mit Susanne Schmetkamp, Kurt Stocker und
@marcwittmann.bsky.social
Photobastei 2.0 ZĂŒrich | 29.10.25 | 19.00 Uhr
shorturl.at/gQ9zO
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Sascha Benjamin Fink
9 months ago
What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators? Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!)
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The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness
Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf035/8262924
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Thomas Metzinger
10 months ago
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Neuroelectrophysiological correlates of extended cessation of consciousness in advanced meditators: A multimodal EEG and MEG study
In some contemplative traditions, "extended cessation" (EC) refers to a state of advanced meditation in which the meditator intentionally suppresses their own consciousness and re-emerges with a profo...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677455v1
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