The Synergistic Mind-Body Hypothesis: A Daoist Approach to Consciousness from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science November 21, 2025 Darin Lei, Alex Djedovic
This paper formulates a possible embodied account of consciousness by integrating the vantages of ancient Chinese philosophy and medicine and predictive processing theories in cognitive science. It draws on robust empirical evidence from across the cognitive sciences, including contemporaneous work in philosophy of mind, neuropsychiatry, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to build...
DOI: 10.21810/cujcs.v8i1.7230 (opens in new tab)
Embodied cognition
Artificial consciousness
Realm
Parallels
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