Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 33, No. 9-10, September/October 2026
Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities
4 About Authors
Refereed Papers
7 Emotion, Consciousness, and the Heart–Brain Connection: A Quantum Biological Perspective, by José Luis Díaz-Palencia & Celia Ortega-Gómez
31 Clearing the Air About Psychedelic Spirituality, by Adam Greif & Gabriela Bezáková
60 How Meaning Turns Out-of-Body Experiences into Life Change: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, by Jenny Moix & Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez
87 The Metaphysics of Self-Causality, by Chris Nelson
111 The Near-Death Experience as an Instance of Higher-Dimensional Phenomenal Consciousness?, by Pekka Rechardt
139 Cross-Modal Experiences and the Problem of Phenomenal Overlap, by Zhiwei Yang
161 Representational Adequacy, Natural Selection, and Quantum Ontology: Against a Three-Dimensionally Spatial Reality, by Lyu Zhou
Symposium: Commentaries on Eric Schwitzgebel’s
The Weirdness of the World with Précis and Replies
180 Précis of The Weirdness of the World, by Eric Schwitzgebel
189 Flights of Fancy: Comment on Eric Schwitzgebel’s The Weirdness of the World, by Edouard Machery
196 AI Weirdness and Distributive Gaming, by Luke Roelofs
211 Is a Data Centre Conscious? The Quantum Weirdness of Substrate, by Susan Schneider
235 How Weird the World Is: Replies to Machery, Roelofs, and Schneider, by Eric Schwitzgebel & Jacob Barandes