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The Blessing of Memory Loss: Toward a Sacred Phenomenology of Forgetting

New Advances in Brain & Critical Care January 16, 2026 Julian Ungar-Sargon

There is a strange mercy in the way the mind forgets a mercy that medicine has rarely understood. In our age of biomedical triumphalism, where pharmaceutical companies spend billions on Alzheimer's therapies promising to rewind the unrewindable, we speak of memory loss exclusively as catastrophe, as the progressive erasure of selfhood requiring aggressive intervention. This article proposes a...

Remembering as a research tool for selfless consciousness studies

Asian Journal of Philosophy January 15, 2026 I-Jan Wang

Abstract Consciousness studies have relied on the subject’s remembering capacity as the primary tool for identifying and measuring selfless states, i.e., conscious states without self-consciousness. This paper critically examines whether memory can serve such a role. After outlining the requirements that remembering must meet when deployed in studies of selfless consciousness, I evaluate its...

DOI: 10.1007/s44204-025-00369-6 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Competence human resources False memory Metamemory +5

The Collision of Phenomenology and Theology

Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Emmanuel Falque

In this interview, Emmanuel Falque measures the distance that separates his generation from that of his teachers and argues that the problem of circumscribing the “history of metaphysics” no longer interests most phenomenologists. He also discusses the relation between phenomenology and theology and his work on the theology of human finitude.

Beyond the Hard Problem: Integrating Philosophy, Neuroscience, and AI in Consciousness Research

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) January 10, 2026 Mumun Das.

This article synthesises recent advances in consciousness studies by integrating contemporary philosophical debates, neuroscientific findings, and emerging discourse on artificial intelligence. It critically addresses philosophical issues, including qualia, the Hard problem, panpsychism, and illusionism, in juxtaposition with empirical neuroscientific theories such as Global Workspace Theory...

DOI: 10.21275/sr251231121424 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Clarity Empirical research Bridge graph theory +4