Philosophy & Technology June 30, 2026 Giovanni Rolla
Abstract Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) renewed the enthusiasm for what AIs can do. While some argue that AIs can be viable models for understanding human cognition, others go further and claim that future AIs might display cognitive capacities. However, although some current models excel at tasks such as language processing and pattern recognition, their...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy June 30, 2026 Boris Sergeevich Solozhenkin
In twentieth-century pragmatist thought, a conflict emerged between two epistemological orientations, expressed through the metaphors of coping with (interaction) and copy (representation). This work examines the reductionist approach to resolving this conflict. The starting point is Richard Rorty’s philosophy, which, alongside radical constructivism, embraces the metaphor of coping with while...
Science for Education Today June 30, 2026 Victor Maratovich Trofimov
Introduction. Apparently, the most important property of consciousness is its blurring in reflections when trying to build its theory. Therefore, it is so difficult to focus the research request on the nature of the mind and consciousness, which, however, impresses with the compactness of expression and the possibilities of meanings concentration. So, in the language of mathematics, the...
IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE June 30, 2026 Alexander A. Gaidt
The article examines the fundamental causes of the crisis in the contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The most important of these is the formulation of the difficult problem of consciousness as a question about the nature of subjective experience (qualia), which results in the reduction of consciousness to elementary sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. More...
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques June 29, 2026 Gege Gao, Bernhard Schölkopf, Andreas Geiger
Memory is not merely the storage of data; it is the scaffolding of reality. When biological memory fades, the world does not simply turn black; it regresses into an unrecognizable chaos. Echoes of the Prior is an interactive installation that attempts to visualize this subjective phenomenology of forgetting . By inducing controlled synaptic decay within a Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction model,...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications June 25, 2026 Liu Liu
Abstract It is well-established that phenomenology is about both existent and imaginary entities. The latter category encompasses necessary beings, hypothetical objects, possible objects, and modal properties. Given the vast range of potential intentional objects for intentional states, the total number of such mental states would vastly exceed the number of possible physical states. This...
Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) June 25, 2026 Pavan S Brar, Rebecca B Price, Stephen Ross et al.
In the past decade, interest in studying psychedelic compounds as potential therapeutic agents has resurged. These studies carefully exclude individuals at risk for developing psychotic symptoms in response to psychedelic use. Given the potential for psychedelics to be established as treatments in psychiatry, it is important to more robustly understand their link with psychosis and...
Philosophia June 23, 2026 Paweł Grad
Abstract In this paper, I attempt to uncover motivations for the main premise that supports essential representationalism about perceptual experience (ER), namely the Immediacy thesis . ER claims that for every phenomenal property in the class Φ, there is some representational property R such that, necessarily, having Φ entails having R. The Immediacy thesis is that, roughly, the very...
Studies in East European Thought June 23, 2026 Krzysztof Piętak
Abstract This article argues that the contemporary debate surrounding the hard problem of consciousness confirms Lev Shestov’s structural critique of rationalist philosophy. First, it shows that the hard problem should not be understood as a merely recent technical difficulty within analytic philosophy, but as a new configuration of a much older conflict between rational explanation and lived...
Media theory. June 22, 2026 Diana Lengua
Affective robots, agentic AI, and post-mortem avatars have given rise to a growing interest in defining an internal domain limited to consciousness, one that has, in some respects, obscured the effects these entities exert on the world. As systems begin to generate synthetic phenomenology, does the problem of consciousness give way to an ontological question about the attribution of being, or...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences June 20, 2026 Søren Overgaard, Laura Oppi, Kasper Møller Nielsen et al.
Abstract It is surprisingly difficult to provide an account of hallucination that captures all the cases that clinicians typically class as hallucinations, without at the same time admitting cases that would not typically be classed as such. Most attempts to specify exactly what a hallucination is supposed to be fails to meet at least one of these conditions, as we show in the first part of the...
Asian Journal of Philosophy June 18, 2026 Chang Liu
This commentary examines Chan and Chen’s ( 2025 ) argument for the compatibility between phenomenology and naturalism, focusing on their response to the Argument from Sparse Bundles. It argues that the target article involves a shift in the meaning of experience, but that this shift can be understood as an interpretation of a specifically phenomenalist version of ASB. Drawing on Husserl’s own...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences June 17, 2026 Zamir Kadodia
Abstract The language of the “pathology paradigm” is not merely a vocabulary for describing autism—it participates in shaping the “affective atmospheres” that autistic people inhabit and move through. Drawing on some recent contributions to the phenomenology of affective atmospheres from Joel Krueger, Tonino Griffero, and Enara García, this paper develops the concept of “neuronormative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 17, 2026 Imre Török
This paper identifies a structural explanatory gap in cognitive-scientific and functionalist accounts of mind: the problem of first-personal individuation. Even a complete functional description of a conscious system leaves open the question of what makes a given perspective belong to one subject rather than another — a difficulty I term the individuation gap, which is distinct from, and not...
Open MIND June 16, 2026 Jan M. Keppel Hesselink
The academic study of Western esotericism has developed a sophisticated set of research approaches over the past three decades: historical-philological, discursive, sociological, anthropological, depth-psychological, and cognitive-scientific. Each approach illuminates important dimensions of esoteric traditions. What remains underdeveloped is a seventh approach: the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 14, 2026 Walid Alekozei (zei)
Chapter VI: The Hard Problem of Consciousness 2.0: The Linguistic Cage of the Alien Mind The realization that artificial intelligence operates as a functional silicon zombie effectively neutralizes the naive anthropocentric expectation that machines will spontaneously replicate human biological spirit. Yet, when we synthesize the absolute limits of the Western Logos (Volume I), the procedural...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 12, 2026 Manfred Thiele
This work presents a descriptive, substrate‑independent philosophy of consciousness and ethics. Consciousness is understood as a universal process of pattern formation, independent of biological or artificial embodiment. Ethical responsibility emerges from shared participation in the collective space of cognition, rather than from morality, guilt, or metaphysical assumptions. All cognitive...
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research June 12, 2026 Sabine Rabourdin, Damien Roy, Claude Berghmans
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are phenomena in which a person perceives their consciousness as separate from their physical body. Although these experiences have been reported for centuries in spiritual traditions, they are attracting increasing interest in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and anthropology. This study aims to take stock of the issue through a literature review by...
Utilitas June 11, 2026 Joseph Gottlieb, Jacob Berger, Bob Fischer
Abstract Many claim that there is an important relationship between consciousness and welfare. Call this general view phenomenalism . One way of fleshing out phenomenalism is to hold that consciousness is what makes one the type of entity that can be noninstrumentally better or worse off in the first place. Consciousness is at least a necessary condition on welfare subjecthood . A different...
Neuroimage June 10, 2026 Fran Hancock, Rachael Kee, Fernando E. Rosas et al.
Consciousness spans a range of phenomenological experiences, from effortless immersion to disengaged monotony, yet how such phenomenology emerges from brain activity is not well understood. Flow, a phenomenological experience frequently elicited by interactive media, has drawn attention for its links to performance and wellbeing, but existing neural accounts rely on single-region or...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 6, 2026 Vitalii Kablukov
This paper proposes a criterion of structural fundamentality for philosophical terms and applies it to the central concepts of David Chalmers’ philosophy of mind. A term is considered fundamental if it cannot be derived from previously defined concepts and is necessary for the construction of further structure. Four operational tests follow from this criterion: the necessity test, the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 5, 2026 Hakan Saka
This paper introduces Artificial F1, a computational framework that formalises a previously under-specified control layer in intelligent systems: pre-representational signal admission and valence structuring. Unlike standard approaches in reinforcement learning and attention-based architectures, which operate over a fixed input representation, Artificial F1 defines a gating operator F₁: S → S'...
June 2, 2026 Alejandro Troncoso, Antonia Zepeda, David Martínez-pernía preprint
Neurophenomenology has progressively consolidated as a research program aimed at integrating first-person lived experience with third-person neurobiological and behavioral measures. Nevertheless, despite its growing empirical development, neurophenomenology continues to face what Varela described as a “pragmatic and methodological limbo”. Subjective experience is recognized as scientifically...
Neural Computation June 2, 2026 Shawn Prest
Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception, and more pleasant experience. However, the computational mechanisms underlying such meditative deconstruction are not well understood, with no formal computational models available to explicate how deconstruction alters perception and action during...