Homeostatic feelings and the biology of consciousness

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Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self

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How voluntary control over information and body movements determines “what it’s like” to have perceptual, bodily, emotional and mental experiences

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Consciousness originated from interoceptive feelings

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At The Heart of Digital Collaboration: Navigating Interpersonal Affective Pathways in Digitalized Work Environments

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ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS USING THE LAW OF THE ABSENCE OF ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS

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Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception

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More than gut feelings? – A functional perspective on epistemic feelings in intuitive decision-making processes

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Exploring the Potential of the Museum of Feelings for Children’s Self-Regulation: A Deductive Theoretical Analysis

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Reliability in Judging Basic Emotions: Lessons from Session Transcripts

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Homeostatic Feelings and the Emergence of Consciousness

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Feelings Are the Source of Consciousness

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Antonio Damasio y la homeostasis de lo mental

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Interoception and the origin of feelings: A new synthesis

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