Contemplative neuroscience has differentiated focused-attention, open-monitoring, constructive, and deconstructive practices, yet it still lacks an integrated account of how embodied events become self-defining, how the organization underlying them becomes experientially accessible, and how another mode of situated participation becomes possible. This article introduces Meditation at the Edge...
This essay introduces the Neuro-Existential Architecture System (NEAS) as a newly proposed neurophilosophical heuristic for interpreting Buddhist meditation in terms of predictive engagement. Moving beyond representationalist readings of predictive processing, it argues that meditation should not be understood primarily as the modification of internal models, but as a transformation of...
The Markov blanket has become one of the most conceptually powerful and philosophically contested notions in contemporary work on the Free Energy Principle and active inference. Initially introduced within probabilistic graphical modelling as a formal condition of conditional independence, it has increasingly been used to describe the boundary between internal, external, sensory, and active...
This article develops a processual-perspectivist interpretation of Active Inference. Predictive Processing, the Free Energy Principle, and Active Inference are often read as theories of internal world-modeling by an epistemically secluded brain. On such readings, the brain constructs generative models of hidden external causes and thereby risks reinstating a classical inside–outside...
This article addresses the “Hard Problem” of consciousness not as an immutable ontological barrier of nature, but as an iatrogenic separation—a methodological artifact induced by the reductive third-person perspective (3P). By systematically and intentionally removing the subject from the world-description to achieve a veneer of objectivity, modern physicalism creates a restrictive “substance...
Contemporary philosophy of mind is beginning to rehabilitate Arthur Schopenhauer as a proto-phenomenologist whose metaphysics of the will—once divested of its ontological commitments—provides thick descriptions of embodied agency, self-structure, and intersubjective resonance. This article validates this thesis through a four-stage naturalized reconstruction: (1) Schopenhauer’s "world-knot" and...
The alignment between neural dynamics and environmental structures constitutes a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. While Georg Northoff's Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) posits a "common currency" of temporo-spatial dynamics, the mechanistic operationalization of this alignment remains unspecified. This report integrates the TTC with the Affective Criticality Hypo proposed by...
The long-term outcomes of individuals exposed to similar traumatic events often diverge dramatically: while some succumb to chronic despair, others achieve posttraumatic growth. This “resilience paradox” highlights a limitation of current trauma therapies. Although Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and EMDR reliably reduce symptoms such as hyperarousal and intrusive memories,...
Contemporary psychotherapy faces a profound paradox: while empirical evidence confirms the clinical significance of spirituality for resilience, established theoretical frameworks often lack a process-based mechanism to integrate this dimension beyond narrative content or cultural coping. This article addresses this gap by introducing a "spiritual self-pattern" into the Resonance-Inference...
This manuscript provides a naturalistic foundation for a Philosophy of Enactive Inference and, on this basis, argues for a multi-perspectival monism. Starting from the thesis that the spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity function as a "common currency" for neuronal and mental processes, the paper develops a multi-layered synthesis of the theories of Northoff, Buonomano, Friston, and...
This paper challenges the dominant representationalist paradigm in the philosophy of mind by developing a process-monistic, anti-representationalist account of cognition. It argues that the persistent mind-body problem is a consequence of a flawed substance ontology and the representationalist framework it necessitates. To overcome this, the paper constructs a critical synthesis of three...
This philosophical essay explores the concept of "awakening" as a dynamic, non-permanent process by bridging ancient philosophy and modern neuroscience. It challenges the traditional view of a static, eternal nirvana by interpreting the human yearning for such a state as a form of "incompetence-compensation." Drawing on Heraclitus's idea of Aletheia (unconcealment) and Buddhist teachings on...