Cyril Costines

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.

#Digitalzwang

A copy of "The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing" by Jakob Howhy on a plain background. The cover features a simple one-line illustration of a profile of a character painting a line that stems from their foot.

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: bit.ly/4sXomMq

Im Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (1940-2026)

Ein Nachruf.
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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, cont…

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Hans Bender und das Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene

Vortrag von Eberhard Bauer & Jürgen @kornmeierju.bsky.social
anlässlich des 5. Pierre Janet-Symposiums am Samstag 24.01.26, 13-19 Uhr | Bender Forum, IGPP Freiburg
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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...

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...

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...

Four years of research on #Floatation-REST at IGPP in the Gesundheitspraxis Prana Freiburg have led to doctoral projects by Helena Hruby and Cyril@costines.bsky.social. Thanks to the support of the Hans-Seidel-Stiftung and the Bial Foundation
www.prana-freiburg.de
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Contemplative Lab: Gemeinsam eine Bewusstseinskultur entstehen lassen Das Contemplative Lab versteht sich als Projekt zur Schaffung einer Bewusstseinskultur jenseits religiöser Dogmatik im Dialog mit kontemplativer Praxis und moderner Wissenschaft. Über den Auftakt des ...

#Bewusstseinskultur #ConLab

Über den Auftakt des ConLab in Freiburg:

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
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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 an…

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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

#Bewusstseinskultur #ConLab

Costines, C. & Trautwein, F.-M. (2025). Contemplative Lab: Vom inneren Forschungslabor zur partizipativen Bewusstseinsforschung. Bewusstseinswissenschaften, Transpersonale Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 31(2), 89–90.

#Bewusstseinskultur #MPE

Der existentielle Zug der Bewusstseinsforschung:

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, cont…

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#Erwachen #MPE #0PP

Costines, C. (2025). Des blinden Flecks Strahlkraft: Phänomenologie non-dualen Gewahrseins im alltagsweltlichen Geschehen – aus der „Nullte-Person-Perspektive“ eines Praktizierenden der Karma-Kagyü-Tradition. Bewusstseinswissenschaften, 31(2), 17–33.

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: shorturl.at/domcp

Marc Wittmann: „Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet" Wie nähert man sich paranormalen Phänomenen? Mit rigoroser Anwendung wissenschaftlicher Methoden, sagt der Psychologe Marc Wittmann. Ein Gespräch über Informationen aus der Zukunft, die Kommunikation ...

„Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die #Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet“
Unser Kollege @marcwittmann.bsky.social über die Forschung am IGPP
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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...

Spiritualität 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
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Der Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IGPP, berät Menschen in spirituellen oder meditationsbedingten Krisen

Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...

Christopher Timmermann
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wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution:
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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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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
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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.

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. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...