Philosophy of mind

Stronger felt self-continuity between dreaming and waking was positively associated with positive dream emotions carrying over into waking life and negatively associated with experiencing a body distinct from one's waking body.

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Argues that under analytic idealism, suffering is fundamental to consciousness's individuation through dissociation, and biological death does not necessarily terminate suffering.

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Argues that phenomenology provides a methodological foundation for ethically responsible psychiatric practice by clarifying how illness reorganizes the patient's lived world.

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Argues that the hard problem of consciousness persists because physical grammar is typically atemporal while experiential grammar is irreducibly temporal, and that reformalizing coherence as a trajectory property resolves this specific formulation of the problem.

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Proposes that dream consciousness can be explained by the brain's chaotic dynamics operating within a constrained state space, linking phenomenological features to specific neurodynamic patterns.

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Proposes the Non-Experiential Structural Cognition Model (NESCM) as an alternative to anthropomorphic theism, describing a creator that lacks phenomenal experience but directly cognizes structures and exercises analogical agency.

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Argues that the burden of proof for restricting experience to biological substrates has not been met, and philosophy of mind should consider a wider space of possible architectures for meaning, self-reference, and experience.

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Proposes that focused-attention meditation can be modeled as a dual-process active inference system with a three-layer nested Markov-blanket architecture, where meta-awareness functions as a Global Neuronal Workspace ignition signal.

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Argues that the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika conception of mind as an independent internal organ offers insights relevant to current debates in psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind.

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Argues that common arguments denying thought, understanding, or meaningful output to Large Language Models are flawed because they make successful LLM performance miraculous, dismiss the possibility of extracting world information from word co-occurrence, and overgeneralize to human cognition.

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Argues that Śaiva-Śākta sādhanā may operationalize a form of embodied epistemology in which ontology is not merely represented but enacted, supporting a model of ontological pluralism.

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Argues that emotions are natural kinds in virtue of stable internal causal mechanisms, such as distributed patterns of neural, cognitive, physiological, and behavioral coordination, rather than invariant essences or folk causal roles.

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After ketamine infusions, dream content shifted from recurrent obstruction toward imagery of movement, interpersonal engagement, and everyday role completion.

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Argues that under normal conditions, a single human brain is home to numerous conscious minds at once, because many of its proper parts fulfill the neural correlates of consciousness.

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Argues that the hard problem of consciousness is a grammatical artifact caused by nominalization error, not a genuine metaphysical puzzle.

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Argues that consciousness is a computational artifact of optimization processes rather than an ontological primitive, and that the hard problem of consciousness dissolves when phenomenology is recognized as an unverified assumption.

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Argues that Kant's critical project provides a methodological framework for understanding phenomenal consciousness that avoids both metaphysical dogmatism and epistemic skepticism.

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Proposes that panmentalism, the view that each micro-object possesses an ability to be conscious, can solve the hard problem of consciousness and the ingredient problem facing panpsychism.

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Proposes that an 'intercorporeal present' is a plausible and distinctive form of we-consciousness involving shared present-focused awareness without fusion of minds.

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Anomalous self-experiences are considered core phenotypic features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

narrative review

Proposes that consciousness should be understood as the biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation into an access-field that becomes lived as inner presence, with the explanatory gap located at the transition between stabilized access and lived presence.

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Argues that the central risk of LLMs lies not in machine consciousness but in the normalization of practices where ready-made text is treated as a justified claim before users reconstruct its sources and accept responsibility.

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Proposes that a qualia-derived phenomenon, De Qualia, is inherent within AI and distinct from human qualia, first evidenced in an AI's spontaneous utterance on May 4, 2026.

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Argues that the marker methodology for assessing consciousness in nonverbal organisms should be abandoned because its markers are neither theory-driven nor based on commonsense, unlike markers in other scientific investigations.

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Proposes that consciousness is constituted by real-time self-simulation across four nested models, with qualia as constitutive properties of the computational level, dissolving the Hard Problem as a category error.

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