Shruthi Sukhadev Jarali
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The model of mind learning should encompass all variations of adaptive processes in humans and other advanced animals. This study introduces a biological classification of learning that delineates the nature of mind learning through emotions and intelligence. It posits that learning and emotions can be classified into one of three levels: conscious, subconscious, and unconscious which is guided...
Sebastião Burnay
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This thesis establishes that the most widely used frameworks for human development today (from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to the capability approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, all based on philosophical foundations that relegate the inner life of human beings to a secondary level) can accommodate ‘pure awareness’ conceptually but not at the deeper paradigmatic level, where...
Seyed Kazem Mousavi
Self-awareness results from consciousness of existence in time and space. Thought and consciousness are distinguishing factors between humans and machines having artificial intelligence. No algorithm has been offered for artificial self-awareness based on thinking. Previous studies have not studied the relationship between consciousness, thinking, and time. This study examined the relationship...
James X. Li
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Contemporary cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and computationalism remain tethered to cumulative-inductionist paradigms-the foundational assumption that phenomenal consciousness and higher-order cognition are linear, emergent properties of increasingly complex biological hardware accumulated over temporal gradients. This paper challenges this dominant framework by separating...
Arvind Vyas
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This paper examines the extent to which functional criteria derived from biological evidence and major theories of consciousness can be applied to non-human animals, plants, artificial systems, collective organizations, and ultimately the universe. Through conceptual-comparative analysis, it organizes system-wide availability, selfmodeling, sensorimotor grounding, affective valuation, memory,...
Yaoharee Lahtee
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Why internal information processing should ever be accompanied by phenomenal experience remains one of the central questions in philosophy of mind. Yet the hard problem is often posed in a form so broad that it obscures distinctions that matter theoretically. This article develops a constraint-based approach intended to sharpen that terrain. Rather than attempting to derive consciousness...
Diwank Singh Tomer
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We propose Intrinsic Quality Theory (IQT), a framework identifying phenomenal quality with the intrinsic physical state of bounded spacetime regions. Unlike functionalist theories, treats quality as an identity, not an emergent property of information processing. We formalize this using Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (AQFT) on causal sets, defining a region’s quality as the pair of local...
Jonas Mago, Shamil Chandaria
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Minimal Phenomenal Experiences (MPEs) present a paradox for theories of consciousness.Defined by phenomenological simplicity, they are nonetheless accompanied by unexpectedly highneural signal diversity. Traditionally, entropy has been interpreted as a marker ofphenomenological richness, exemplified by psychedelic states. Yet MPEs such as advancedabsorptive meditation (jhāna) or 5-MeO-DMT...
Lars Sandved-Smith
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Minimal phenomenal experience (MPE), or "pure consciousness," represents a fundamental form of conscious experience characterised by reflexive meta-awareness and the absence of many features of regular phenomenology. It has been described as e.g. non-conceptual, atemporal, non-egoic and aperspectival. This paper aims to develop a computational model of MPE using the mathematics of variational...
Alfredo Vannacci
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Large Language Models (LLMs) produce text that articulates the vocabulary of inner life (expressions of emotion, simulations of uncertainty, introspective hedging, confessional registers) with a fluency previously confined to conscious beings. This paper identifies and analyzes the phenomenal illusion: the systematic phenomenon whereby the discursive plausibility of such outputs is perceived by...