Research Square
July 29, 2026
Larissa Hartle, Ronald Fischer
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Abstract Experiences that resemble symptoms of psychosis or dissociation in clinical research do not necessarily impair daily functioning and may instead be interpreted within religious or spiritual frameworks. However, the extent to which such interpretations influence perceived life impact remains unclear. Distinguishing phenomenological experiences from their spiritual or religious...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
July 29, 2026
Jonathan Simon
This paper asks: if large language models (LLMs) gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, what would it be like? I argue that if LLMs gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, it would be like being an impartial, improvising playwright rather than a character or a (roleplaying) actor or an author writing a first-personal narrative. My argument has three steps. I first argue that if LLMs give rise to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Eve Mcnaghten
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Although conscious connected breathwork (CCB) continues to grow in popularity as a practice used for nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and emotional well-being, little is known about how its effects and experiences may vary across the menstrual cycle. Existing research indicates that breathwork, including different conscious connected breathwork (CCB) techniques, can influence...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
July 29, 2026
Yukiko Tsuji, Miyuki Azuma, Camille Lépingle et al.
Abstract The rubber hand illusion (RHI) provides a powerful paradigm for probing the malleability of bodily self-consciousness. While conventional studies rely on proprioceptive drift, questionnaires, or averaged neural measures, phenomenological research suggests that the RHI unfolds through multiple subjective state transitions rather than as a simple binary phenomenon. Participants often...
July 29, 2026
Alan Peter Garfoot
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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
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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...