Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
September 22, 2026
Daniel Reid Smyth
Abstract Knowing when one feels fatigued, and not just tired or expending effort, matters. When fatigue is correctly detected, physician-patient misunderstandings can be avoided (Long et al., 2022), occupational safety concerns can be addressed (Van der Linden, 2011), and injury as well as loss of well-being can be reduced in athletic contexts (Saw et al., 2016). Although existing empirical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 22, 2026
Javid Tajrishi
preprint
This preprint presents the Javid Neuro-Phenomenological Protocol (J-NPP), a five-stage, phenomenon-based hypnotherapeutic framework developed for pain management. The framework is organized around the progression from experiential phenomena and stabilization to therapeutic transformation, transfer, repetition, conditioning, and generalization. It emphasizes the use of subjective experience as a...
Synthese
September 22, 2026
Nicolas Crozatier
Abstract The extended mind thesis (EXT) has profoundly reshaped debates about the nature and boundaries of cognition. Yet its ethical and political implications remain underexplored. While much of the literature emphasizes the therapeutic and enhancement promises of cognitive technologies, less attention has been paid to the structural risks associated with technological dependence, including...
Animal Sentience
September 22, 2026
Claudia Passos-Ferreira
Birch proposes that human fetuses be recognized as sentience candidates from 12 weeks, on the grounds that midbrain-centered theories fall within the zone of reasonable disagreement among theories of consciousness. I raise a methodological and a policy problem for his view. Methodologically, whether the midbrain-centered view belongs within the zone is disputed, so there is no consensus about...
BMJ Open
September 22, 2026
Anna Kristina Eigenbrodt, Poul P Laigaard, Melika Hassani et al.
Recovery of consciousness after brain injury remains a major challenge in the intensive care unit (ICU), and pharmacological treatments that directly promote awakening from coma and other disorders of consciousness (DoC) are lacking. We hypothesise that simultaneously targeting the two core components of consciousness by pharmacological means-arousal with apomorphine and awareness with...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 22, 2026
Samhitha Tirumalasetti
Inconclusive evidence for leading third-person theories of consciousness has renewed scientific interest in its first-person nature. Self-inquiry, a first-person method from Advaita Vedanta, can be operationalized to meet this need, though it has not received prior empirical study, likely owing to Advaita’s idealism. By bracketing Advaita’s metaphysical commitments and mapping its...
Open Philosophy
September 21, 2026
Salmeri Alma Lia
Narrative is often said to be reparative, yet this claim remains conceptually unstable so long as narration is treated as a post-hoc representation of an already constituted experience. Drawing on a Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the lived body, this article argues that narrative is better understood as an embodied practice of expression through which temporal and affective orientations are...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 21, 2026
John Miller
preprint
This independent research note explores whether continuity of experience should be treated as an experimental variable in the study of AI selfhood and machine consciousness. The central question is what might happen if a sufficiently capable AI stopped existing primarily as a series of separate interactions and instead began accumulating a continuous personal history of its own. The note...
Preprints.org
September 21, 2026
Xianqun Yi, Hongsheng Li
preprint
The convergence of generative artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface technology is pushing artificial dreaming from science fiction into the scope of academic inquiry. Existing research has focused primarily on technical implementation pathways and sensory fidelity goals; while fragmented ethical and risk warnings exist, there remains a lack of systematic assessment of the...
Artefactum
September 21, 2026
Davi Rodrigues de Oliveira, Maria Clara França de Lima Vieira
This article investigates the relationships between spirit, consciousness, being, and reality based on the philosophies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Martin Heidegger. It starts from the Hegelian understanding of spirit as a movement of self-knowledge and as a process through which consciousness overcomes immediate forms of grasping reality towards the concept and absolute knowledge....