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July 29, 2026 Alan Peter Garfoot preprint
Introduction The scientific study of perceptual consciousness, as the emergent property of cognitive processes, out of the ‘dynamic unconscious’ of neurological functions has undergone significant development in the realm of cognitive neuroscience over the past three decades [12]. Whereas our conscious experience of perception was once thought inaccessible to the empirical sciences,...
Preprints.org July 29, 2026 Tonatiu Campos-García preprint
This essay proposes the elegant simulation as a reframing of the philosophical simulation debate. Its aim is not to provide evidence that reality is or is not a simulation, but to ask what kind of architecture would make a simulated reality plausible as a lived world. Contemporary discussions of simulation often focus on whether our world could be generated by advanced external agents. I argue...
Frontiers in Psychology July 29, 2026 Lawrence Fischman
I treat Proust’s Á la Recherche du Temps Perdu as a fictional case history centered around dynamic tension between dissociation, memory, and creativity. I argue that three pivotal breakthroughs of long dissociated memories and feelings in Proust’s novel result from thawing within a dyadically-determined dissociative process, not simply the chance triggering of involuntary memories as the...
Aoristo - International Journal of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Metaphysics July 28, 2026 Leandro Catoggio
This paper analyzes the central question of the mode of access to pathological phenomena. Following Róbson Ramos dos Reis in his research on childhood cancer, I pursue and deepen what he calls “pathological phenomenology” through Allan Køster. This type of phenomenology, as such, is indicative of the methodological modality in which a pathology is analyzed by focusing on the first-person...
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology July 28, 2026 Relin Denayu Ekawati, Ni Kadek Surpi, Aditya Ansu
Background: Psychological capital, comprising hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience, provides a useful framework for understanding how individuals remain purposeful during crises. However, its performance-oriented formulation insufficiently addresses the ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual foundations of human strength. This study examines Arjuna’s transformation from psychological and...
Aoristo - International Journal of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Metaphysics July 28, 2026 Marco Casanova
This article first investigates the phenomenological model for describing phenomena with a view to the possibility of a non-invasive, reserved, and delicate relationship with them. After presenting, in a synthetic way, the central elements of the Husserlian phenomenological method and moving towards an understanding of the hermeneutical transformation of phenomenology undertaken by the work of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 28, 2026 Jamison Johsnon preprint
Accounts of consciousness routinely borrow vocabulary from physics — field, phase, coherence, superposition — and the borrowing carries an unpaid debt: a term imported from a discipline arrives with that discipline's warrant attached. This essay defends a compositional practice I call the seam, the requirement that a work mark, in its sentences, whether a given claim is formal, empirical, or...
Psychoactives July 28, 2026 David W. Lawrence
The nature of the psychedelic experience, and the distinctive phenomenological features it generates, leaves it susceptible to an unresolved epistemological tension between first-person phenomenological reports and claims about the fundamental nature of consciousness and reality. This tension is examined through the concept of ontological tourism: the practice of treating phenomenological data...
Frontiers in Psychology July 28, 2026 Hercules Morais, Débora Regina de Aguiar, Matheus Hissa Lourenço Ferreira et al.
BackgroundMindfulness-based artistic–contemplative interventions, including auditory “sound pills,” have increasingly been investigated using neurophysiological measures such as electroencephalography (EEG) to promote psychological well-being and attentional regulation. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these interventions remain poorly understood.MethodsThis pilot,...
Philosophical Psychology July 27, 2026 Orli Dahan
This article examines how relational environments shape the structure of consciousness in contexts that require the temporary suspension of cognitive control. Through the case of birthing consciousness, conceptualized as an adaptive altered state that may emerge during physiological labor, the article argues that certain forms of consciousness are constitutively relational. While dominant...