The beginning of the twenty-first century has been marked by profound transformations in the ways reality, human beings, and society are understood. The rapid development of cognitive science, neuroscience, complexity theory, synergetics, quantum physics, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence has prompted a fundamental reconsideration of many traditional assumptions concerning the...
Abstract In The Idea of Phenomenology , Husserl presents two different senses of the distinction between the immanent and the transcendent: a mereological sense and an epistemic sense. The failure to distinguish between these two senses leads to what he calls a “fatal mistake,” namely, the assumption that what is given absolutely in the epistemic sense is restricted only to what is immanent in...
Objective: Human thought and consciousness are core advanced cognitive functions of the human brain, whose material basis derives from electrochemical activities of neurons. To explore the transformation mechanism from neural electrical signals to subjective thoughts, this paper systematically sorts out the micro-transmission rules of neuronal electrical signals, the intermediate coding process...
Abstract Jnana Yoga, often referred to as the "Path of Knowledge," is one of the four principal paths of yoga in Indian philosophy, as outlined in the Bhagavad Gita and other Vedantic texts. Rooted in deep introspection and philosophical inquiry, Jnana Yoga focuses on self-realization through the discernment of the true Self (Atman) from the transient physical and mental identity. This paper...
Abstract Gaming addiction is a complex phenomenon that extends beyond behavioral reinforcement and neurochemical dysregulation. This study adopts a phenomenological approach, integrating Husserl’s active and passive synthesis with Heidegger’s existential structures and Arvidson’s conceptualization of attention, to explore how gaming addiction reshapes reflective awareness, attentional control...
Mindfulness based sex therapy (MBST) represents an integrative modality within psychosexual treatment, synthesising principles from mindfulness meditation, rooted in Buddhist contemplative traditions, with contemporary psychotherapeutic techniques. A distinct, though often overlapping, influence derives from tantric philosophy, which reframes sexual intimacy as a practice of conscious...
Geoffrey Hinton’s statement that he believes current artificial intelligence systems are already conscious raises a difficult question: how should observations of AI behaviour become claims about consciousness? This working paper develops two linked ideas. The Ontological Bridge Problem describes the inferential step from what an AI system observably does to a claim about what kind of mind it...
Current electroencephalography (EEG)-based dream detection relies on power spectral density (PSD) and statistical moment features, achieving a state-of-the-art area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of approximately 0.70 on the DREAM database (Wong et al., 2025, Nature Communications). We introduce PHINN-EEG (Persistent Homology Inspired Neural Network for EEG), the first...
This interdisciplinary philosophical review examines the relationship between contemporary science and ontological questions of reality, focusing on cosmology, quantum physics, biology, and consciousness studies. The Big Bang theory implies a temporal beginning of the universe, raising questions about causality and the origin of physical laws. Developments in quantum theory and...
Abstract Contemporary consciousness science lacks a shared mathematical language for comparing theories that propose different relationships among biophysical processes, neuroelectric field dynamics, cognition, and subjective experience. Motivated by the problem of how experience relates to physical processes, we introduce a multidimensional framework in which conscious states are represented...