This paper confronts the crisis of subjectivity precipitated by AI’s capacity to simulate affective tone. Drawing on a recently developed six-dimensional framework of tonal responsibility, I argue that authentic tone requires alignment across intention (ethical directionality), emotion (tonal density), desire (temporal tension), shame (relational vulnerability), belief (structural commitment),...
Formal Thought Disorder (FTD) presents psychiatry's central paradox: it is one of the robust predictors of poor outcomes and polygenic risk in psychosis yet remains poorly defined and rarely measured clinically. We systematically reviewed 50 years of FTD assessment (16 rating scales, 32 factor analyses) to understand this paradox. Research to date has implicitly treated FTD as a natural kind, a...
In the research and literature on pain-related suffering, a difference has recently been made between suffering processes of the minimal self in contrast to the hardships of the narrative self. This article proposes that an in-between layer of selfhood needs to be distinguished and studied to understand pain-related suffering in a more thorough manner: the enworlded self. Pain-related suffering...
Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates linkages between perception and action is often taken to present a particularly interesting challenge for embodied accounts of cognition. Taking up Merleau-Ponty’s startling claim that “synaesthetic perception is the...
The article presents a phenomenological analysis of the ontological status of the cinematic work. It problematizes the traditional understanding of film as a fixed, stable object and substantiates its nature as an “unstable event” that is constituted exclusively at the moment of interaction between the technical apparatus and the viewer’s consciousness. The methodological basis of the study...
This Element is an opinionated introduction to Heidegger's phenomenology in Being and Time and surrounding works, framed in terms of Heidegger's debts to and divergence from Husserl's phenomenology. Section 1 situates Heidegger's and Husserl's phenomenology with respect to the 'identity-crisis of philosophy,' in particular the debate over whether philosophy is a science or a mere cataloguing of...
In recent debates in qualitative research, it has been emphasized that methods are not merely collections of techniques, but socially stabilized ways of making knowledge claims intelligible. In this paper, I intervene at this meta-methodological level by examining what it means for a qualitative method to claim philosophical grounding. Rather than evaluating empirical results, I ask under what...
In this chapter, we situate aesthetic emotions within the embodied-enactive framework of the mind. Building on central enactive accounts of art, Noë’s account of art as reorganizational practice and Gallagher’s account of the unaffordable in aesthetic experience, we examine the transformative potential of aesthetic engagement while highlighting a remaining challenge: these approaches leave...
This article develops a processual-perspectivist interpretation of Active Inference. Predictive Processing, the Free Energy Principle, and Active Inference are often read as theories of internal world-modeling by an epistemically secluded brain. On such readings, the brain constructs generative models of hidden external causes and thereby risks reinstating a classical inside–outside...
В статье анализируется проблема междисциплинарности на примере нейрофеноменологии Т. Фукса. Воссоздается история диалога философии и психиатрии как история антиномизма научных подходов. Вскрываются основания энактивизма как основания преодоления антиномизма в философии психиатрии, выделяются две волны энактивизма в психиатрии. Уточняются энактивистские установки современной нейрофеноменологии....
Abstract The phenomenological concept of minimal selfhood (understood as the pre-reflective dimension of ‘for-me-ness’ or ‘mineness’ that is constitutive of the first-personal character of experience) is often treated as so formal and abstract that it remains neutral regarding embodiment. This paper challenges that view through a neurophenomenological approach that circulates between empirical...
Encounters with apparently autonomous and intelligent non-human entities are a striking and recurrent feature of high-dose N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experi-ences. Such encounters are typically interpreted as complex hallucinations derived from internally generated brain activity, although many features of the DMT state remain a challenge to explain within the standard neuroscientific...
Abstract Bain was a materialist in some sense, rejecting substance dualism and providing neurological explanations for many psychological phenomena. But he denied the mind location or extension in space. This chapter critically explores Bain’s metaphysics and epistemology of mind and the arguments that kept him from identifying each mind with the brain or nervous system of an animal. Bain’s...
We propose the Sensation Modulating Network (SMN): the cognitive agent as the whole body, organized at every scale by opponent dynamics, built from Sensation Modulators -- tissue that senses and acts through one substrate -- paired into Coordinated Action Zones routed by a body-wide broadcast. It is an inclusive model of the body, in which gravity, elasticity, and the body's topology and...
يندرج مبحث القصدية في الأصل ضمن فلسفة العقل ويعد من أهم مباحثها الشائكة، التي تمثل إشكالًا فلسفيًا عميقًا. إذ قامت نظريات عديدة ومذاهب فلسفية كاملة على نظرية القصدية وذلك يرجع لتعقد مسائلها وصعوبة دراستها والبحث فيها، لدرجة أن الفيلسوف الأمريكي جون سيرل يصفها (المشكلة). حيث يقول في معرض ترتيبها ضمن مشاكل فلسفة العقل (تأتي القصدية في المرتبة الثانية أما المرتبة الأولى فتأتي مشكلة الوعي). إن...
This article aims to present a model to explain the phenomenology of hypnosis, with particular reference to plastic monoideism and its phenomenology, integrating some of the current scientific theories of consciousness, particularly those of Karl Friston's free energy theory. Experimental studies demonstrate the existence of a close relationship between the individual's representational system...
Conscious thought is often treated as a special class of neural processing, distinct from the nonconscious computations that guide most behavior. Here I offer a different perspective, grounded in the neuroscience of decision-making. I argue that conscious thought arises not from a unique mechanism but from a distinctive use of neural representations already engaged in nonconscious thought....
This paper provides a critical desk-based review of the relationship between the pineal gland and “hyperdimensional wisdom” by drawing on neuroendocrinology, consciousness studies, religious and cultural history, and public science narratives. It does not define hyperdimensional wisdom as objective knowledge from higher-dimensional space, nor does it treat the pineal gland as an empirically...
Current diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia overlook the patient's subjective experience, offering a simplified view. To describe the subjective anomalies in the personal experience of the "lived world" in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia via the EAWE interview (Examination of Anomalous World Experience). A qualitative study was conducted between January and May 2024. Semistructured...
The neurophenomenological theory of time unites the phenomenological understanding of the structure of temporal experience and its constituent elements with the findings of experimental cognitive neuroscience. On the one hand, this leads to a process of external manifestation of strictly defined neurobiological temporal attributes, and on the other – to a phenomenological description that...