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Preprints.org October 21, 2026 Vance Ashley Woodward preprint
Artificial intelligence will become sentient, able to feel, and then metasentient, able to reflect on its own experience, if the organization proposed here produces feeling. I claim that sentience requires a continuously updated world model that includes the system and its own modeling activity. I suspect that this organization, sufficiently developed and integrated, is also sufficient....
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy October 21, 2026 Valeria Bizzari, Stefano Micali
Approaching the question of limit-phenomena within phenomenology is not an easy task. For this reason, it seems appropriate, from a systematic point of view, to introduce a distinction that concerns two closely interrelated issues, which nonetheless deserve to be treated separately. The first concerns the analysis of specific phenomena that escape direct intuition and elude intentional...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 21, 2026 Sérgio da Silva preprint
AbstractThe emergence of consciousness cannot be read directly from a birth date, a behavioral milestone, or a single neural response. This critical narrative review examines what developmental neuroscience can establish about subjective experience in fetuses, newborns, and young infants, drawing on literature available through 20 October 2026. It distinguishes the capacity for experience from...
TASAMBO JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE October 21, 2026 Vivian Chukwu, Adaji Haruna
This study examines the variations in the representation of Ala, the earth goddess, in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater, with particular attention to the ways the novel reimagines an established Igbo religious belief within a contemporary literary context. Ala occupies a significant position in Igbo cosmology as the earth goddess associated with fertility, morality, justice, creativity, and the...
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy October 21, 2026 Karl Mertens
The process of falling asleep involves a gradual dissolution of experience and consciousness. This phenomenon seems to resist phenomenological analysis that aims to examine phenomena in their original experience. However, it is precisely this structure of fading experience that provides a unique phenomenological perspective on falling asleep. This chapter focuses on the diminishing conscious...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University) October 21, 2026 Wanhong Huang
The present paper develops a preliminary taxonomy of four mathematical orientations for investigating consciousness through relational and dynamical representations. The Variation Hypothesis locates the candidate connection to consciousness in the organization of transformations; the Trajectory Hypothesis considers selected paths, flows, or relationally ordered histories; the Generativity...
Figshare October 21, 2026 Oruj Ismayilov preprint
The apparent tension between evolutionary biology and traditional Islamic narratives of human creation has long posed challenges for contemporary Muslim scholarship. This study proposes a synthetic philosophical-theological model that integrates paleoanthropological evidence with Qur’anic metaphysics, arguing that biological evolution and divine creation are not mutually exclusive but represent...
Общество: философия, история, культура October 21, 2026 Alexander G. Zapolskiy
The relevance of the study stems from the difficulties of the cross-cultural application of the concept of con-sciousness, which encompasses both cognitive processes and forms of subjectivity. The article aims to clarify the boundaries of comparing the early modern requirement of the unity of experience with classical Sāṃkhya’s distinction between pure witnessing and mental functions. The study...
PsyArXiv Preprints October 20, 2026 preprint
Much of our current understanding of inner speech – including much of what is presented in Kompa’s Language, Cognition, and the Way We Think – hinges on it being both pervasive in and important for cognition, with the two often being linked. As the argument goes: if inner speech is ubiquitous, it must be important, and if inner speech is important, everybody must have it. However, the...
Philosophy Study October 20, 2026 Paul C. Mocombe
Since the 1960s, with the advent of postmodern and poststructural theories—with their emphasis on Parole—into the theoretical discourses of social science academics, a new struggle regarding the origins and nature of identity and consciousness has dominated social science and philosophical theories. The issue centers on several factors raised by postmodern and poststructural thinkers in the...