Mind and Matter
June 30, 2026
J. Díaz-Boils, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, CM. Signorelli
The article introduces a partial order structure to study the relations between levels and contents of conscious experience within a formal and mathematical model. Inspired by Husserl’s phenomenology, our account models structural aspects of experiences as layers that can be experienced in potentiality or in actuality, composing further experiences and imposing an order among them. From our...
Mind and Matter
June 30, 2026
D. Rickles
Douglas Hofstadter coined the acronym “jootsing” to describe our endless ability to jump out of the system (of rules, axioms, concepts, styles, etc.). Hofstadter viewed this as something possibly unique to human consciousness, which AI has not yet duplicated. Our minds can transcend computational and Gödelian limitations and contemplate totalities. In this paper I argue that there is in fact a...
Mind and Matter
June 30, 2026
Reza Maleeh, Shaghayegh Konjedi
Ramana Maharshi’s practice of self-inquiry is a contemplative method aimed at investigating the nature of the “I” in order to loosen egoic identification and realize the self as non-dual awareness. His teachings emphasize that the true self is ever-present, self-aware, and not constituted by mental constructs. In this article, we propose a cognitive model in which self-inquiry can be understood...
Mind and Matter
2026
J. Starrett
Radical Panpsychism (RP) offers a rigorous mathematical, physical, and philosophical foundation for panpsychism, addressing its central challenge ‐ the combination problem ‐ by reframing the hard problem in deflationary-structural terms: experience is identified with the dynamics by which entities model and respond to their environments and to their own organization. Each entity is modelled as...
Mind and Matter
June 24, 2025
Karina Kofman, Michael Levin
Neuroscience, and behavioral science more broadly, seek to characterize the relationship between functional cognition and the underlying processes operating in living tissue. The current paradigm focuses heavily on the brain, and specific mechanisms thought to underlie mental content and capabilities. One of the most interesting approaches to any field, which often leads to progress, is to...
Mind and Matter
July 20, 2024
M. Masi
The "consequence argument", together with the "luck objection", which are summed up by the "standard argument against free will", state that if our volition were dependent on physical causally indeterministic processes, our actions would lack control and, thereby, result in random behavior that would be a mere matter of luck and chance. In particular, quantum indeterminacy is supposed to be of...
Mind and Matter
July 20, 2024
Sam Coleman
In an influential article, Thomas Nagel (1979) was one of the first to address the doctrine of panpsychism after a long time of silence about it. The present paper focuses on Nagel's account in detail, and how it seems to oscillate between the apparently conflicting positions of panpsychism and neutral monism. To resolve the tension between them it is proposed to consider the mental and the...