This paper presents a theoretical-philosophical inquiry into the ontological status of dream consciousness. Addressing the explanatory gap between neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) and phenomenal experience, it critiques reductive physicalist accounts of dreaming. By utilizing veridical dream reports as limit-case thought experiments and adopting a stratified approach to empirical data,...
This paper critically examines the inferential jump from empirical physics to physicalist ontology and scientism. Moving beyond traditional self-defeat critiques, it engages directly with contemporary strong scientism defenses (Rosenberg, Carroll) and evaluates the pragmatic rejoinder. The paper develops two key original arguments: (1) the hard problem of consciousness as a persistent...
This paper offers a rigorous philosophical roadmap that challenges the hegemony of contemporary reductionist scientism and explores new pathways toward an integrative view of reality. Taking the "hard problem of consciousness" and its explanatory gap as a starting point, the author deconstructs the ontological claims of materialism and maps out alternative models of the mind-brain relationship,...