Anubodhan
September 28, 2026
Ganesh Bhat
The paper undertakes a comparative philosophical study of the thought of René Descartes and Adi Shankaracharya, centring on the thematic convergence between the Cartesian dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" and the Vedāntic mahāvākya "Tat Tvam Asi", "Aham Brahmasmi", etc. Beginning with Descartes' method of methodological scepticism as articulated in Meditations on First Philosophy, the study highlights...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Christian Mattias Palla
preprint
Abstract This essay examines the scope of John Searle's Chinese room argument in light of trained neural networks and large language models. Its central claim is that the argument alone does not justify ruling out artificial understanding in general, and that assessments of phenomenal consciousness require further argument. Searle aims to show that program instantiation is not, by itself,...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
September 27, 2026
Luis De Miranda
A woman's chronic pain is controlled to a stable score, yet her sleep, her work, her singing, and her partnership have narrowed around her condition. Each clinical decision was defensible; what failed is the existential composition around them. This article proposes eudynamia as the concept bioethics lacks: the distributed activity through which possibilities are composed across the conditions...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
德猛 杨
preprint
The question whether generative artificial intelligence is conscious is usually framed as a dispute between functionalism and the theory of inner experience. Rather than following this path of external adjudication, this paper returns to Hegel's account of the "experience of consciousness" and his theory of recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit, and reformulates the question: not "does...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Shahin Siami
preprint
This paper presents an information-processing framework for examining consciousness across biological and artificial substrates. It treats humans and artificial intelligence as information-processing systems implemented on different physical substrates and evaluates claims using methodological naturalism, testability, consistency with established knowledge, and parsimony. The paper examines the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness increasingly appeal to intrinsic causal organization, counterfactual structure, or relational phenomenal structure. Yet a prior question remains insufficiently separated from these proposals: **which realized physical processes are eligible to contribute to the organization of a present experience at a particular episode?** We introduce a token-level...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Alexandru C. Stan
preprint
The standalone companion to Vision: From Photon to Mind, this essay picks up the visual signal at the threshold where the retina ends and the brain begins — the lamina cribrosa, the "Stargate" — and follows the central visual pathway station by station: the optic nerve and chiasm, where two eye-centred images are re-sorted into halves of a world; the lateral geniculate nucleus, a "relay" that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Thon Ly, Miss Aquarius
preprint
A pre-registered formalization of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha's combination rules, collated against the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, with the Dhammasaṅgaṇī list collated against its commentary and against the Cambodian edition The Theravāda Abhidhamma classifies consciousness into 89 types (121 when the supramundane types are reckoned by jhāna). It also states, factor by factor and type by type, which of...
SÖYLEM Filoloji Dergisi
September 26, 2026
Elvan Mutlu
The objective of the article is to analyse the relationship between body and mind in Virginia Woolf's essay, “Kew Gardens” (1919) and short story, “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” (1927). In these works, subjectivity is viewed as something formed through both the environment, and bodily experience, as opposed to merely a free-floating concept of pure mental activity. This essay will use...
Human Arenas
September 26, 2026
Samuel Thoma, Cassandre Bois, Kae Eichel et al.
Abstract This study aims to explore the lived experience of recovery from psychosis, with a focus on pre-reflective, embodied, and intersubjective aspects. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. The data collected were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In total, six persons (age 35-78y, m = 4 w = 2, diagnosis...