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Killing the Hard Problem

Rethinking Emergence March 17, 2026 Michael Silberstein

Abstract The hard problem of consciousness has historically been a major driver of discussions pertaining to emergence. As the only forms of emergence on offer in these discussions were strong and weak emergence, very little progress was made. Herein a new type of emergence is offered to move forwards. Contextual emergence (CE) holds that the world is structured as follows: properties and...

The Hard Problem as a Category Error

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 16, 2026 James Wyngarde preprint

The Hard Problem of consciousness asks why physical processes give rise to subjective experience rather than proceeding without phenomenal character. In simpler terms, it asks why it feels like something to perceive, hurt, or want. The question rests on the assumption that the same functional processes could occur in the absence of experience. This paper rejects that assumption. The account is...

Perspective Without Phenomenology: Why Recursive Integration Produces Structural Centering

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 14, 2026 Lasse Paulsen preprint

Perspective is standardly treated as either a phenomenological concept — something it is like to have — or as a representational concept — a viewpoint from which the world is modeled. This paper argues for a third position: perspective is a structural-operational concept. A system has perspective not by virtue of representing the world but by virtue of organizing its processing recursively...

The problem of the transcendental from Kant to Hegel. The young Foucault's interpretation of the “Phenomenology of Spirit” in his 1949 mémoire

The Southern Journal of Philosophy March 13, 2026 Christopher H. Bouton

In this paper, I explore the young Foucault's engagement with phenomenology in his master's thesis, The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I begin by outlining the context of this early work (Section 1), followed by a brief summary of the thesis and its overall argumentative structure (Section 2). In Section 3, I analyze Foucault's critique of Kant,...

Intuition and Nocturnal Dreams: the Lived Experiences of Private Company Executives in the Light of Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Philosophy of Management March 13, 2026 Vicente Reis Medeiros

Abstract This empirical study questioned the experience of intuition among private company owner-executives from a phenomenologically informed perspective. The study included three participants from Brazilian organizations operating in the service provision (technology and education) and agribusiness (rice farming) sectors, who shared their experiences through written reports and interviews....

DOI: 10.1007/s40926-026-00370-w (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Phenomenology philosophy Lived experience Intuition Ethics of care +12

The Digital Sacred: A Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Algorithmic Worlds

Khazanah Journal of Religion and Technology March 1, 2026 Mahmoud Khatami

This article examines how digital technologies are fundamentally transforming the nature of religious experience, creating new modes of encounteringthe sacred that challenge traditional phenomenological and theological frameworks. Moving beyond debates about authenticity or mediation, weargue that algorithmic environments actively reshape the very conditions of spiritual engagement, generating...

Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders.

The Lancet Psychiatry March 1, 2026 Jasper Feyaerts, Pavan S Brar, Louis Sass et al. 1 citation

In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the early identification and treatment of individuals at increased risk of psychotic disorder. Yet, despite considerable research effort, current early psychosis research faces several limitations. In this Personal View, we consider how integrating...

Active inference, computational phenomenology, and advanced meditation: Toward the formalization of the experience of meditation.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews March 1, 2026 Hagar Tal, Malcolm Wright, Shawn Prest et al. 2 citations

Computational phenomenology has emerged as a powerful framework for investigating advanced meditation states and stages, and meditative development and endpoints. Various models have been proposed to mechanistically explain the diverse experiences associated with these practices, including enhanced well-being, shifts in attentional control, the loosening or 'defabrication' of perceptual...

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106539 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Aif Advanced meditation Attention Computational phenomenology +1

A healing triad: An analysis of Mindfulness Based Stress reduction (MBSR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) through a lens of Gurdjieff’s phenomenology of awareness

Advances in Neuron Sciences February 28, 2026 Daniel D. Haldeman

Since its introduction in 1972 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) have progressively become part of medical and mental health protocols, and many levels of society. Barker [1] points out that MBIs have become a popular and paradigmatic alternative healing practice and one of the frequently used tools from the toolbox of contemporary Mind-Body or Integrative medicine. Two...

DOI: 10.70462/ans.2026.2.001 (opens in new tab) Toolbox Psychological intervention Mental health Psychotherapist +5

‘Felt Sense of Anomaly’-type transdiagnostic dissociative experiences in adolescents: endorsed phenomenology and plausible mechanisms.

PsyArXiv February 18, 2026 Emma Černis, Milan Antonović, Katie Lofthouse et al. preprint

ObjectiveResearch indicates higher prevalence of dissociative experiences in adolescents than in adults. However, the exact phenomenology and underlying mechanisms of dissociation in adolescence have yet to be clarified. The current study explores the presentation of, and possible psychological factors underlying, dissociation in this population.MethodTwo online self-report surveys captured...