Remembering as a research tool for selfless consciousness studies
Asian Journal of Philosophy January 15, 2026 I-Jan Wang
Abstract Consciousness studies have relied on the subject’s remembering capacity as the primary tool for identifying and measuring selfless states, i.e., conscious states without self-consciousness. This paper critically examines whether memory can serve such a role. After outlining the requirements that remembering must meet when deployed in studies of selfless consciousness, I evaluate its...