Ariel Swyer, Albert R. Powers
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) have traditionally been thought to be outside the influence of conscious control. However, recent work with voice-hearers makes clear that both treatment-seeking and non-treatment seeking voice-hearers may exert varying degrees of control over their voices. Evidence suggests that this ability may be a key factor in determining health status, but little...
Renxiang Liu
This paper is motivated by what I call the “enigma of time”, the paradox that, on the one hand, the givenness of a temporal entity takes time, i.e., comes in installments and is never complete, while, on the other hand, at each moment of manifestation the entity is grasped as a unity, i.e., “pretends” to be complete. A methodological assumption underlying my investigation is that the paradox...
Vittorio Gallese
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Digital media have been repeatedly described as disembodying, virtualizing, or abstracting human experience. This article rejects that premise. It argues that the digital does not weaken embodiment but reorganizes it at a fundamental level. Drawing on embodied simulation and phenomenology, I propose a framework of radical aesthetics in which aisthesis—embodied, affective sense-making—is the...
Mark Robert Adley, Stephanie Scott, Amy O'Donnell
This methodological paper presents a participatory adaptation of descriptive phenomenology, co-produced with public contributors. Traditionally, descriptive phenomenological analysis is performed by a sole trained analyst responsible for conducting bracketing, reduction, and essence-seeking. In contrast, we explore how these processes can be shared within collaborative partnerships. Through...
Robert Prentner
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In this contribution, we emphasize the relevance of mathematical approaches to the first-person perspective. We briefly discuss why this is necessary and why mathematics plays a special role when it comes to integrating scientific (empirical) and philosophical (theoretical) projects. We also sketch some potential ways that mathematics could be used in phenomenology, based on a selection of four...
Jagat Sarkar
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This paper presents the Ψ-Consciousness Fabric (C-Fabric) as a unified field framework that bridges quantum gravity, cosmology, and phenomenology. Central to the model is the proposal that reality is underpinned by a universal Ψ-field, with matter emerging as solitonic condensations, spacetime curvature arising from Ψ-density gradients, and consciousness manifesting through an actualisation...
Christoph Kohlhepp
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This paper explores the phenomenology of consciousness and self awareness in the context the work of the mathematician Douglas Hofstadter and so called Strange Loops and Gödels Incompleteness Theorem. We apply these concepts to modern Large Language Models and seek to establish if Large Language Models can be regarded as self-aware and can be taught to self-improve.
Hakan Saka
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The hard problem of consciousness may be, in part, a problem of conceptual conflation: we treat multiple distinct layers of mind as a single phenomenon, and then wonder why it seems impossible to explain. This paper proposes a framework designed to disaggregate those layers — not to solve the hard problem, but to relocate it into the most precise domain to which it genuinely applies. Central to...
Bernard Jennings
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This paper proposes a functional theory of qualia grounded in recursive self-monitoring architecture, forming part of an integrated theoretical framework alongside companion papers on emotion and consciousness (Jennings 2025a, 2025b). The central claim is that qualia is the sustained electrochemical differential created in System A's processing state when System B's recursive monitoring summary...
David Josef Herzog, Nitsa Herzog
This paper is an extension of our previous article, “What is it like to be an AI bat?”[1]. Questions discussed in the first paper are quite complex and cannot be responded to in a brief, consecutive way. As a result, we divided more detailed discussion into separate topics, united under the umbrella of problems of consciousness and intelligence, artificial and natural. This first part...