Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of the present moment. It reinterprets carpe momentum — seizing the moment — as the re-collection of attention within present experience rather than the possession of an instant or the pursuit of immediate gratification. It differentiates distraction into three functionally distinct deformations of the attentional field. Attractors make...
September 19, 2026
Ali Ladak, Nick Corvino, David Moss et al.
preprint
Despite AI’s global reach, little is known about how laypeople outside Western contexts think about whether AI systems can be conscious—capable of subjective experience—or whether they could have moral status—warranting moral consideration. In a preregistered main and replication study, we compared such attitudes among laypeople in China and the US (main sample: N = 820; replication sample: N =...
Time and Mind
September 19, 2026
Brian A. Stewart, Peter J. Mitchell
Inspired by the insights of David Lewis-Williams, rock art research has changed significantly over the past half-century. As he has shown, interpretations of hunter-gatherer rock paintings and engravings in southern Africa depend inextricably on working back and forth between the surviving imagery and its location, on the one hand, and insights from (principally San) ethnographic data on the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Juza Minamikata
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This paper examines what the existence and character of phenomenal experience establish about its metaphysical status. It does not deny phenomenal consciousness, qualitative difference, unity, immediacy, ineffability, or first-person access. Its target is the stronger claim that phenomenal character is metaphysically primitive. The paper distinguishes two principal, potentially interacting...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of the attentional elsewhere: the condition in which a person remains bodily situated in one place while attention, affect, and practical orientation become organised within another phenomenal world. Accounts of mind wandering, perceptual decoupling, and mental time travel explain important aspects of attentional departure but do not describe...
Pan-Art
September 18, 2026
A. Muss, V. Н. Maraev
The research aim is to present an approach to the study of consciousness from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. The article reveals that the view of consciousness as a complex object emerged only in the mid-20th century, with the advent of neurocognitive science, which currently does not exhaust the possibilities of philosophical conceptualization. Philosophical anthropology could...
Dia-noesis.
September 18, 2026
Yiwen Zhang
Large language models produce first-person expressions, simulate hesitation, and generate apparently self-referential judgments. These behaviors have reopened philosophical debates about machine selfhood, yet existing positions share an unexamined assumption: that genuine selfhood requires a persistent, unified substantial subject. This paper names that assumption substantial-self priority and...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
September 18, 2026
Jacob Noah Pascoe
This thesis proposes a methodology that melds theological inquiry with cinematic analysis ultimately arguing that cinema can serve as a site of mystical encounter. In an age of increasing irrationality, spiritual expression in cinema has shifted from a meditative, passive transcendentalism toward an active, urgent, and often violent mysticism. Drawing on contemporary cinematic examples from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Morteza Niami
preprint
Abstract: Intensity has occupied a significant position in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly in accounts of duration, affect, difference, embodiment, becoming, and material transformation. From Bergson’s analysis of qualitative multiplicity and duration to Deleuze’s ontology of intensive difference, and from phenomenological accounts of lived affectivity to contemporary...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
preprint
The split-brain syndrome has long been interpreted as evidence for divided consciousness. However, while some classical findings have been challenged by recent studies, one robust phenomenon remains: the inability to compare stimuli presented independently to the left and right visual fields. Existing interpretations have increasingly preserved some notion of a unified subject or conscious...