Debbie Margaretha Louisa De Boer, Patrick Johnston, Farhang Namdar et al.
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How does the brain distinguish between the signals it produces and the sensations it registers from the environment? To shed light on this, it was investigated if the human mind could be capable of perceiving an avatar’s body in a third person game as one’s own. To create precise, high-quality motion simulations, we uniquely combined a Virtual Reality-setup (Valve Index) with real-time motion...
Rochelle Forrester
This paper investigates the nature of reality by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics and at recent studies of animal senses, neurology and cognitive psychology. The concept of perceptual relativity is examined and this involves looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual...
Gary Lupyan, Ryutaro Uchiyama, Bill Thompson et al.
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In addition to the many easily observable differences between people, there are also differences in people’s subjective experiences that are harder to observe, and which, as a consequence, remain hidden. For example, people vary widely in how much visual imagery they experience. But those who cannot see in their mind’s eye, tend to assume everyone is like them. Those who can, assume everyone...
Mark Miller, Zach Buck, Alex Zhu et al.
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Near-death experiences (NDEs) and advanced contemplative practices such as dark retreat are frequently reported to involve vivid inner imagery, encounters with non-ordinary agents, moral insight, and panoramic life reviews. Despite growing empirical interest, these experiences remain theoretically fragmented across neuroscience, psychology, and religious studies. In this paper, we develop a...
Marco Antonio Morelos Navidad
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Resumen The study of consciousness faces theoretical fragmentation that, in Spanish, is aggravated by the unexplored distinction between "consciencia" (basic phenomenal experience) and "conciencia" (moral reflection). This work proposes an organizational framework-the twodimensional space of consciousnessdefined by two analytical axes: on the one hand, phenomenological domains (sensory,...
Liming Xiu
This article critiques the philosophical underpinnings of current electronics in Moore's Law 1.0, arguing that progress remains constrained by reductionist engineering and an implicit commitment to mind-body dualism. Despite advances in computational power, digital computation remains fundamentally mechanistic and fails to bridge the gap between physical process and subjective experience....
Ayao Edoh Zanou
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This article deals with the philosophy of mind. We revisit the old intellectual conflict between Spinoza's immanent philosophy and Descartes' transcendence. Based on modern physics and recent scientific discoveries, we explain how a single, infinite substance manifests in two distinct realities: the immaterial and the material. Thus, we justify Spinoza's substance monism but reject his immanent...
Alexandros Syrakos
Modern philosophy focuses on the mind’s _universal_ features, such as qualia and intentionality, typically with the aim of reducing them to physical processes. This endeavour runs into so-called “hard problems”, much like the alchemists’ pursuits in ages past. Meanwhile, the mind’s _particularity_ – its deepest, most distinctive, defining characteristic – is surprisingly overlooked. Each mind...
Martin Wolstencroft
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The origins of consciousness and conscious experience have been regarded as a mystery for millennia. Philosophical exploration remains divided on physical or non-physical origins. Research in psychology and neuroscience are revealing the physical construction of the brain and illuminating features of the mind in operation. However, current theories of consciousness and intelligence have not...
Otangelo Grasso
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The following write-up provides a thought-provoking model for conceptualizing the relationship between God, consciousness, energy, and the physical universe. The proposal touches on complex topics from multiple disciplines, including physics, philosophy of mind, theology, and metaphysics.The core argument in the following proposal1. Fundamental uncertainty about energy: Despite our ability to...