This study investigates the concept of Manunggaling Kawulo Gusti within Javanese spirituality, employing a theological framework centered on the incarnation of the Logos, with a focus on the soteriological doctrine of Theosis and on intercultural hermeneutics as conceptualized by Paul Ricoeur. Employing a qualitative critical literature review methodology, this research brings primary...
This preprint introduces the Organismic Projection Thesis (OPT), a conceptual framework in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The central claim is that the human subject should not be understood as consciousness inhabiting an organism, but as an organism that, under physiological conditions, generates a bounded conscious projection of world, self, and duration. The paper does not aim to...
Abstract Both phenomenology and anthropology study lived experience, but they have traditionally done so in different ways. Phenomenology aims to identify universal structures of experience via the epoché, reduction and eidetic variation. Anthropology, by contrast, foregrounds cultural diversity as documented through ethnography. Ethnographic accounts provide thousands of cases of lived...
Introduction: Alterations in emotional experiences have been demonstrated in depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPD), typically highlighting a blunting of emotions and decreased ability to recognize and name emotions (i.e., alexithymia). However, less research has focused on how individuals with depersonalization experiences embody emotion states. Therefore, the present study...
This article examines how the work of contemporary American poet Dana Ward generates ecological thinking through ‘infinity lyric’: a mode shaped by psychedelic aesthetics, drifting attention and shifting scales of perception. By close reading Ward’s two collections, This Can’t Be Life (2012) and The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (2013), in conversation with poststructuralist, new materialist and...
This chapter advances a distinct conception of contemplative resistance in relation to the political economy of capitalism, grounded in nonduality, nonattachment, and endogenous critique. This conception resists the temptation of absolute purity that positions contemplative practices as either for or against capitalism; instead, it situates them existentially within the capitalist political...
This paper explores the metaphysics of consciousness through the lens of Mādhva Gauḍīya Vedānta, a Hindu philosophical tradition within Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism. It primarily examines how this school’s concepts relate to contemporary cosmopsychism. While resonating with cosmopsychist views of universal consciousness, the Gauḍīya perspective maintains a dualist metaphysics. It posits the jīvātmā as...
Abstract AbstractThis paper asks whether first-person subjectivity can be adequately explained in purely physical-functional terms. I approach the question through what I call the AI duplication paradox—the ontological difficulty that arises when one and the same computational architecture is instantiated in parallel across multiple substrates—and argue that functionalism cannot account for the...
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...