American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
October 26, 2026
Amirhossein Rajabiun, S. M. Hossein Mousavi Nasab, Dariush Boostani
End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) are meaningful subjective experiences commonly reported by dying patients. While prior research has shown their emotional and existential value, evidence from non-Western settings remains scarce. This study explored the lived experiences and meanings of ELDVs among Iranian patients with advanced cancer. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA),...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Omar Magdy Mohamed Abdulqadir
preprint
This study examines whether large language models (LLMs) display indicators associated with scientific theories of consciousness, and how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude differ in metacognitive caution, reasoning, theory of mind, and the distinction between simulation and subjective experience. A descriptive comparative method was used. Fifteen standardized questions were presented to three major...
Sociological Bulletin
October 25, 2026
Vineet Kumar, Harpreet Singh
This study explores the lived experiences of Dandi Sanyasis residing in Mumukshu Bhawan, Kashi, and examines how renunciation, sacred migration, ascetic practices and engagement with death shape their pursuit of moksha. Drawing on qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation and ethnographic fieldwork, the study investigates the everyday lives of elderly...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 25, 2026
Brendan Barlow
preprint
If there is no fact about consciousness beyond a system's functional organisation, which animals and artificial systems are conscious becomes an empirical question, best asked capacity by capacity. We assembled 305 findings from human clinical and experimental work, comparative and animal-welfare research, and research on language models and agents; organised them by five families of capacities...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 24, 2026
Rakesh Chandola
preprint
Background: The philosophy of medicine has undergone a profound paradigm shift over millennia. In ancient India, health was conceptualized through a holistic framework where the mind (Manas), body (Sharira), and spirit (Atman) were viewed as an indivisible continuum. Conversely, Western modern medicine historically embraced Cartesian dualism rigidly separating physical pathology from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 24, 2026
Victor Wyld
preprint
David Chalmers asks why the performance of physical functions is accompanied by experience. This paper answers: Ownership. Its argument has two tiers. The first holds that he argues for conceptual separability and draws from it more than it supports. His evidence shows that experience and physical process go together. That new fundamental laws, or a further phenomenal nature underlying the...
Interações - cultura e comunidade
October 23, 2026
Tiago de Fraga Gomes, Rafael Henrique da Costa
This article investigates the relationship between interiority and lived religion in the thought of Edith Stein, with the aim of proposing a phenomenological-ontological foundation for religious experience within the field of Religious Studies. It begins from the problem that a significant part of lived religion studies privileges the description of everyday practices, personal narratives, and...
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
October 23, 2026
Andrea Bauckneht
This article sets out to examine the 1950s debate between Enzo Paci and Ernesto de Martino, with particular attention to the Italian reception of phenomenology, but also to other philosophical references that prove decisive for this confrontation, namely Croce’s historicism and Abbagnano’s positive existentialism. We will follow the arguments presented by the two thinkers in Il nulla e il...
Figshare
October 23, 2026
Stephan Ludewig
preprint
Contemporary philosophy of mind and computer science frequently conflate intelligence with consciousness. When assessing the possibility of artificial consciousness, the computationalist paradigm assumes that sufficient architectural complexity and informational integration will give rise to subjective experience. This paper challenges this view by looking back to 19th-century post-Kantian...
Routledge eBooks
October 23, 2026
Bijoy H. Boruah
The chapter takes up the ontological problem of we-sociality: how does the individual&s;s first-person singular sense of self give way to the first-person plural “we”? I argue that this gap is not bridged directly but mediated–by the phenomenological relation of I and thou. In this relation, the self encounters the other not as a foreign object but as another self, a mirror in which one&s;s own...