Brain Communications2026Tobias Bauer, Charlotte Gauvry, Sebastian Markett et al.
Hemispherotomy is a surgical intervention for severe drug-resistant epilepsy that fully disconnects the lesional brain hemisphere from the rest of the nervous system. This creates a rare opportunity to explore whether consciousness can be sustained without external input. The default-mode network, linked to introspective mental activity, is considered a necessary, though not sufficient,...
According to a venerable phenomenological claim which is still quite authoritative nowadays, our phenomenal field is necessarily unified at a time t . This means that everything we simultaneously experience in the first person is subjectively, representationally or at least phenomenally unified. Against this background, Tim Bayne (2010) provides an insightful overview of the various descriptive...
The question of the “passage of time,” particularly that of the subjective experience of time’s passage, raises difficult problems from both phenomenal and metaphysical perspectives. This is because it seems that we experience the passage of time in the first person, even though this experience does not correspond to any physical reality. The aim of this chapter is to clarify the phenomenology...