May 30, 2026 Joerg Fingerhut, Corinna Kühnapfel preprint
In this chapter, we situate aesthetic emotions within the embodied-enactive framework of the mind. Building on central enactive accounts of art, Noë’s account of art as reorganizational practice and Gallagher’s account of the unaffordable in aesthetic experience, we examine the transformative potential of aesthetic engagement while highlighting a remaining challenge: these approaches leave...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 29, 2026 Gerd Leidig
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...
Философия науки May 29, 2026 О.а. Власова
В статье анализируется проблема междисциплинарности на примере нейрофеноменологии Т. Фукса. Воссоздается история диалога философии и психиатрии как история антиномизма научных подходов. Вскрываются основания энактивизма как основания преодоления антиномизма в философии психиатрии, выделяются две волны энактивизма в психиатрии. Уточняются энактивистские установки современной нейрофеноменологии....
Synthese May 28, 2026 Juan Diego Bogotá
Abstract The phenomenological concept of minimal selfhood (understood as the pre-reflective dimension of ‘for-me-ness’ or ‘mineness’ that is constitutive of the first-personal character of experience) is often treated as so formal and abstract that it remains neutral regarding embodiment. This paper challenges that view through a neurophenomenological approach that circulates between empirical...
PsyArXiv May 27, 2026 Andrew Robert Gallimore, Niffe Hermansson, Donald D Hoffman preprint
Encounters with apparently autonomous and intelligent non-human entities are a striking and recurrent feature of high-dose N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experi-ences. Such encounters are typically interpreted as complex hallucinations derived from internally generated brain activity, although many features of the DMT state remain a challenge to explain within the standard neuroscientific...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 26, 2026 N. Shadlen Michael
Conscious thought is often treated as a special class of neural processing, distinct from the nonconscious computations that guide most behavior. Here I offer a different perspective, grounded in the neuroscience of decision-making. I argue that conscious thought arises not from a unique mechanism but from a distinctive use of neural representations already engaged in nonconscious thought....
Critical humanistic social theory. May 24, 2026 Hongyu Cao, Weixiang Gan
This paper provides a critical desk-based review of the relationship between the pineal gland and “hyperdimensional wisdom” by drawing on neuroendocrinology, consciousness studies, religious and cultural history, and public science narratives. It does not define hyperdimensional wisdom as objective knowledge from higher-dimensional space, nor does it treat the pineal gland as an empirically...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research May 23, 2026 Plamen Nikolov
The neurophenomenological theory of time unites the phenomenological understanding of the structure of temporal experience and its constituent elements with the findings of experimental cognitive neuroscience. On the one hand, this leads to a process of external manifestation of strictly defined neurobiological temporal attributes, and on the other – to a phenomenological description that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 21, 2026 Bruno Tonetto
Abstract: Reports of awareness without content, ego, or subject-object structure converge across contexts that share neither method nor culture: contemplative traditions spanning millennia, 5-MeO-DMT administration in clinical settings, and near-death experiences during cardiac arrest. This essay documents that convergence, distinguishes the key concepts it requires — subjectivity, experience,...
Frontiers in Psychology May 20, 2026 Keisuke Suzuki
Altered states of consciousness, including hallucinations, psychedelic experiences, and ego dissolution, differ qualitatively, yet no unified computational framework describes what varies and along which dimensions. Computational phenomenology (CP) has emerged as a promising bridge between first-person experience and computational models, yet current formalisations rely predominantly on the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 19, 2026 Anatolii Mukha
Abstract This article develops a fundamental ontological model of consciousness based on the introduction of the χ‑Absolute as a limit‑level operator‑geometric structure that grounds the possibility and form of any manifested experience. Within this framework, χ‑consciousness is not treated as a derivative property of biological or physical systems, but as a universal ontological capacity of...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences May 14, 2026 Marcelo Lopes
Abstract Philosophical approaches to psychopharmacology have paved the way for an important but still largely unexplored area in the philosophy of psychiatry. Some of these approaches have addressed conceptual, explanatory, and moral questions posed by psychopharmaceuticals, while shedding light on epistemological and methodological issues inherent to psychopharmacological practice. Yet, most...
Erkenntnis May 14, 2026 Yaron Wolf
Abstract Does experience itself unfold in time? This paper defends an extensional account of temporal consciousness—on which the temporal properties we directly experience match the temporal properties of experience itself—while drawing upon features of agential awareness. After showing that recent debate on the ability of introspection to settle the question about the temporal properties of...
Religious Studies May 14, 2026 Ricardo Sousa Silvestre
Abstract This paper explores the implications of Jīva Gosvāmī’s (sixteenth century) Bhedābheda Vedānta for the contemporary philosophical debate on consciousness, thereby contributing to the broader and growing interest in the insights that Indian traditions may bring to current discussions in the philosophy of mind. More specifically, I develop here a metaphysical, coarse-grained partial...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 10, 2026
Advaita Vedanta, the non-dualistic school of classical Indian philosophy systematized by Śaṅkara in the eighth century, offers one of the most sophisticated philosophical frameworks for understanding the nature of consciousness, self, and reality. Modern consciousness studies, an interdisciplinary field bringing together philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and contemplative...
Journal of Transcendental Philosophy May 8, 2026 Hannes Gustav Melichar
Abstract This article examines how rational normativity can be integrated into nature without reduction or dualism. Drawing on Thomas Nagel’s critique of reductive naturalism and Husserl’s refutation of psychologism, it argues that adequate accounts of mind must respect the transcendental status of reason while also explaining how rational subjects belong to the natural world. The paper...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences May 2, 2026 Justin Aaron Moll
Abstract Sometimes our ability to make sense of the world breaks down. Such breakdowns of sensemaking give rise to a range of phenomena, including extreme experiences such as crisis and epiphany, as well as day-to-day forms of learning, frustration, or indifference. Various accounts in the domains of phenomenology and the neurocognitive and neurophysiological sciences capture facets of...