Abstract This paper argues that if an artificial system realizes consciousness, then it’s likely to realize not just one, but many independent minds at once. This view is motivated by analogy to split-brain cases, in which the two hemispheres of a patient’s brain are functionally disconnected. While there are several ways to interpret this phenomenon, it’s highly plausible that split-brain...
This article provides a theoretical examination of the problem of consciousness as one of the central issues in modern philosophy, with particular attention to its relation to the functioning of the human mind and brain. The study aims to analyze consciousness as a fundamental category of ontology and to trace the major philosophical approaches to this problem throughout the history of...
In 2005, Richard Conn Henry from Johns Hopkins University published “The Mental Universe” in Nature, advancing the idealistic claim that the universe is fundamentally mental and conscious, and that matter has no objective reality. Grounded in a one-sided interpretation of the observational effects in quantum mechanics, this view has sparked long-standing debates across physics, philosophy,...
Considering that silence has long been intertwined with ritual and spiritual practice, we explore how digital technology might support silence thereby allowing space for reflection, attunement, and meaning-making. How does the Chinese aesthetic concept of liubai(留白,“empty space”) open up new ways of designing for noticing and reflection? In this paper, we present lived experiences of shared...
Background: Wellness tourism increasingly incorporates short yoga sessions for stress management, yet evidence on their immediate physiological and emotional responses remains limited. Objective: This exploratory pilot study aimed to generate preliminary data on acute physiological and emotional responses to a single 24-minute yoga session (breathing, postures, and meditation) compared with...
As AI systems increasingly display human-like behavior, people often attribute consciousness to these machines, raising questions about anthropomorphism, ethics, and design. We report findings from an online survey (N=553), including academics from the formal sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and a heterogeneous group of other participants. Respondents evaluated perceptions of...
Most mental health conditions emerge during adolescence, making university years pivotal for intervention. Nearly 30% of students worldwide experience mental health difficulties, yet support remains constrained by stigma and limited resources. This work investigates how interactive technologies, integrated with a wearable heart-rate sensor, can enhance psychological and emotional well-being...
Deliberate regulation of diaphragmatic breathing can contribute to well-being. We present a targeted-heat wearable designed to direct attention inward during breathing practice. In a mixed-methods study, breathing was guided with a pulsing-heat or a screen-based app. We included physiological measures of heart-rate, HRV, and breathing pace; self-report questionnaires on interoception and...
Within the predictive processing framework, most theories of consciousness address either the architecture of conscious access, the representational structure, the information-theoretic measure, or the computational principle. What remains underexplored is the temporal dynamic of consciousness: why it emerges under novelty, recedes under familiarity, and re-emerges under disruption. This paper...
This paper develops the final movement of a seven-paper philosophical inquiry into the disclosure of being and the world. Where the preceding papers examined the five domains—persons, things and artifacts, nature, the self, and the encompassing whole—as distinct yet related structures of disclosure, the present paper asks how they operate together in lived experience and what happens when their...