This article examines the phenomenology of the search for meaning from the perspective of spiritual counseling and care, framed within Kierkegaard’s conceptions of freedom and spirituality. It explores how existential crises and meaning voids in modern individuals affect psycho-spiritual adaptation processes and evaluates the phenomenological contributions of Kierkegaard’s philosophical...
Lucid dreaming (LD), sleep paralysis (SP), and false awakenings (FA) are liminal sleep phenomena that are often studied independently, despite evidence suggesting that they may arise from overlapping states of consciousness. Within Filipino cultural contexts, such experiences are frequently interpreted through folklore and superstition, such as bangungot, rather than through scientific or...
To model informatic intelligence, agency, consciousness and the like, one must address a claimed Hard Problem: that a grasp of ‘the mind’ lies wholly beyond scientific views. While this claim is suspect, persistent analogues can be identified in the literature, such as a “symbol grounding problem”, “solving intelligence”, a missing “theory of meaning”, and more. The topic of subjective...
The paper examines the relationship between certain problems in the philosophy of mind. The discussion begins by identifying methodological obstacles in empirical consciousness research: the mereological fallacy and the fallacy of conflating levels of abstraction. Theoretical issues are addressed: the mind-body problem, the unity of consciousness problem, and the binding problem, situating them...
Artykuł stanowi próbę wyjaśnienia przyczyn marginalizacji przez filozoficzny mainstream dwóch filozofów – George’a Berkeleya i Henry’ego Bergsona – oraz jednego problemu, mianowicie problemu qualiów, dyskutowanego obecnie w kontekście statusu fizykalizmu. Zgodnie z główną tezą artykułu przyczyn tej marginalizacji należy doszukiwać się w antykantowskim przesłaniu tych dwóch filozofów oraz...
Responding to the relevance of the problem of consciousness for modern interdisciplinary research, this article is devoted to finding an answer to the question of what criteria can be used to compare different theories of consciousness, including those created within various fields of knowledge, for example, philosophy of con-sciousness and neurocognitive science. Based on a comparison of...
Psychedelic compounds act on specific brain pro cesses, which can lead to rich experiences of wide phenomenological breadth.Because of this, psychedelic phenomena pre sent a unique opportunity to explore the tension between the objective and the subjective.However, in-depth first-person approaches fostering inquiry into the psychedelic experience are still underdeveloped in psychedelic science...
Consciousness has been a key idea in my thinking for a long time; in academia, it became the locus for the investigation and conceptualization of deeper intuitions that I may have cultivated even as a child.I began my studies at the university in the midst of a fiery search for answers to the big questions of life.These did not seem to be addressed by my studies in psy chol ogy, with its...
In this chapter I argue that to understand consciousness in relation to social interaction, we need to consider not just brain mechanisms, but also the extensive and enactive pro cesses of bodily engagement in the social environment.In addition, I suggest that the starting point for such an analy sis should not be reflective self-consciousness (see glossary), as if that were simply equivalent...
measures like accuracy and reaction time and move toward reports about experience that are simple but not necessarily objectively verifiable as accurate.I will discuss studies demonstrating the effect of attention on visual awareness and how meditation practice could influence our perceptual experience.Fi nally, I will discuss the importance of control and prediction and how a hierarchical...