N, N‐dimethyltryptamine and Amazonian ayahuasca plant medicine

E James, J Keppler, TL Robertshaw… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Reports have indicated possible uses of ayahuasca for the treatment of conditions
including depression, addictions, post‐traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and specific …

Beyond combination: how cosmic consciousness grounds ordinary experience

I Shani, J Keppler - Journal of the American Philosophical …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, our purpose is to propose and motivate a novel and
scientifically informed variant of cosmopsychism, namely, the view that the experiences of …

[HTML][HTML] Building blocks for the development of a self-consistent electromagnetic field theory of consciousness

J Keppler - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The goal of this work is to compile the basic components for the construction of an
electromagnetic field theory of consciousness that meets the standards of a fundamental …

Cosmopsychism and consciousness research: a fresh view on the causal mechanisms underlying phenomenal states

J Keppler, I Shani - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite the progress made in studying the observable exteriors of conscious processes,
which are reflected in the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), there are still no …

A new perspective on the functioning of the brain and the mechanisms behind conscious processes

J Keppler - Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
An essential prerequisite for the development of a theory of consciousness is the clarification
of the fundamental mechanisms underlying conscious processes. In this article I present an …

The role of the brain in conscious processes: A new way of looking at the neural correlates of consciousness

J Keppler - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This article presents a new interpretation of the consciousness-related neuroscientific
findings using the framework of stochastic electrodynamics (SED), a branch of physics that …

The common basis of memory and consciousness: understanding the brain as a write–read head interacting with an omnipresent background field

J Keppler - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The main goal of this article consists in addressing two fundamental issues of
consciousness research and cognitive science, namely, the question of why declarative …

On the universal mechanism underlying conscious systems and the foundations for a theory of consciousness

J Keppler - Open Journal of Philosophy, 2016 - publications.articalerewriter.com
In this article, I present a novel approach to the scientific understanding of consciousness. It
is based on the hypothesis that the full range of phenomenal qualities is built into the …

Electromagnetic field theories of consciousness: opportunities and obstacles

T Hunt, M Jones, J McFadden, A Delorme… - Frontiers in Human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
While the concept of an EM field theory of mind is not new–it was first proposed over 70
years ago–it is indeed a new development to see this level of interest in this type of solution …

The zero-point field and the emergence of the quantum

L de La Peña, AM Cetto… - International Journal of …, 2014 - World Scientific
A new way of arriving at the quantum formalism is presented, based on the recognition of the
reality of the random zero-point radiation field (ZPF). The quantization of both matter and …