Abstract: This study investigates an international philosophical debate between Advaita Vedānta and Husserlian Phenomenology by analysing their mutual focus on knowledge, awareness, and reality. Both traditions, despite originating from different historical and cultural settings, converge on the supremacy of consciousness as the fundamental basis of experience and existence. Advaita Vedānta,...
Studie si klade za cl identifikovat hlavn tematick oblasti souasnho ekofenomenologickho vzkumu. Ukeme, e ekofenomenologie vyuv pedevm metodologick pstupy, kter bu problematizuj objektivn, instrumentln-vdeck pstup ke svtu a/nebo zpochybuj izolovanost poznvajcho subjektu. Zamme se na ohnisko ekofenomenologickho bdn, jen je soustedno okolo dl Husserla, Heideggera, Merleau-Pontyho a Lvinase, a v...
This article examines the phenomenology of the search for meaning from the perspective of spiritual counseling and care, framed within Kierkegaard’s conceptions of freedom and spirituality. It explores how existential crises and meaning voids in modern individuals affect psycho-spiritual adaptation processes and evaluates the phenomenological contributions of Kierkegaard’s philosophical...
Lucid dreaming (LD), sleep paralysis (SP), and false awakenings (FA) are liminal sleep phenomena that are often studied independently, despite evidence suggesting that they may arise from overlapping states of consciousness. Within Filipino cultural contexts, such experiences are frequently interpreted through folklore and superstition, such as bangungot, rather than through scientific or...
Intentionality, understood as the capacity of systems to be “about” something, remains a central issue in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Classical approaches face significant limitations, especially when applied to artificial systems. Representationalism struggles with the symbol grounding problem, functionalism reduces intentionality to causal roles, and enactivism restricts it...
To model informatic intelligence, agency, consciousness and the like, one must address a claimed Hard Problem: that a grasp of ‘the mind’ lies wholly beyond scientific views. While this claim is suspect, persistent analogues can be identified in the literature, such as a “symbol grounding problem”, “solving intelligence”, a missing “theory of meaning”, and more. The topic of subjective...
The paper examines the relationship between certain problems in the philosophy of mind. The discussion begins by identifying methodological obstacles in empirical consciousness research: the mereological fallacy and the fallacy of conflating levels of abstraction. Theoretical issues are addressed: the mind-body problem, the unity of consciousness problem, and the binding problem, situating them...
To gather (almost) all (reasonable) theories of phenomenal consciousness, describe them neutrally (largely in the words of their authors), and organize them in a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary taxonomy of categories-"Landscape of Consciousness." Perhaps the process can encourage novel ways of thinking among medical (psychiatry/neurology) practitioners and neuroscientists. Landscape organizes...
Artykuł stanowi próbę wyjaśnienia przyczyn marginalizacji przez filozoficzny mainstream dwóch filozofów – George’a Berkeleya i Henry’ego Bergsona – oraz jednego problemu, mianowicie problemu qualiów, dyskutowanego obecnie w kontekście statusu fizykalizmu. Zgodnie z główną tezą artykułu przyczyn tej marginalizacji należy doszukiwać się w antykantowskim przesłaniu tych dwóch filozofów oraz...
Responding to the relevance of the problem of consciousness for modern interdisciplinary research, this article is devoted to finding an answer to the question of what criteria can be used to compare different theories of consciousness, including those created within various fields of knowledge, for example, philosophy of con-sciousness and neurocognitive science. Based on a comparison of...
Truths are as fragile as the people who have formulated them.-Andreas Steinhöfel, 2005 Overview Biology, chemistry, and physics are the building blocks of a materialist worldview of consciousness; conversely, consciousness is needed in order to comprehend and investigate these fields.This circularity and the apparent lack of an independent foundation of science are major challenges for...
Psychedelic compounds act on specific brain pro cesses, which can lead to rich experiences of wide phenomenological breadth.Because of this, psychedelic phenomena pre sent a unique opportunity to explore the tension between the objective and the subjective.However, in-depth first-person approaches fostering inquiry into the psychedelic experience are still underdeveloped in psychedelic science...
Consciousness has been a key idea in my thinking for a long time; in academia, it became the locus for the investigation and conceptualization of deeper intuitions that I may have cultivated even as a child.I began my studies at the university in the midst of a fiery search for answers to the big questions of life.These did not seem to be addressed by my studies in psy chol ogy, with its...
In this chapter I argue that to understand consciousness in relation to social interaction, we need to consider not just brain mechanisms, but also the extensive and enactive pro cesses of bodily engagement in the social environment.In addition, I suggest that the starting point for such an analy sis should not be reflective self-consciousness (see glossary), as if that were simply equivalent...
measures like accuracy and reaction time and move toward reports about experience that are simple but not necessarily objectively verifiable as accurate.I will discuss studies demonstrating the effect of attention on visual awareness and how meditation practice could influence our perceptual experience.Fi nally, I will discuss the importance of control and prediction and how a hierarchical...
Abstract Attending to when we do and do not metacognize during inference, we can recognize two forms of inferential experience: “local-followness,” which labels the experience that a proposition follows from previous propositions, and, second, mechanical rule-following, the experience that we have when we see that one proposition results from the application of a set of rules to other...
The paper presents a reconstruction of various approaches to understanding such an element of philosophical methodology as conceivability. From the point of view of such a section of the theory of knowledge as modal epistemology, this method is interesting because it allows us to acquire knowledge about the nature of various objects, expressed by modal statements. In other words, this...
Abstract With a close lexical analysis of the word “see” and the related words “perceives,” “notices,” “observes,” and so on, one can see that the purported phenomenological distinction between the sensory given and what goes beyond the sensory given fails to correspond to the language we use to describe the distinction, though not entirely. Reviewing some key mid-twentieth-century debates...
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), embodied cognition, and phenomenology represents one of the most profound and complex inquiries in contemporary philosophy of mind. This chapter explores the epistemological and ontological dimensions of embodied intelligence and its relationship to the phenomenology of consciousness, with a specific focus on qualia—the subjective, first-person...
Due to the development of advanced AI systems, machine consciousness has become a matter of philosophical and scientific discussion. This literature work discusses theoretical approaches, empirical issues and methodology of establishing consciousness in AGI. We revisit Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory and Higher-Order Thought Theory, finding advertising gaps between...