Anomalous phenomena and associated experiential events have gained increasing scientific attention, yet the developmental organisation of such experiences across an individual’s life has rarely been examined systematically. This study presents a longitudinal analysis of a single experiencer’s encounters spanning nearly five decades, reconstructed from detailed narrative material and analysed...
Despite centuries of scientific inquiry, the origin of human consciousness, characterized by self-awareness and the presence of qualia, remains one of the deepest mysteries in neuroscience. Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR), as proposed by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, posits that consciousness arises from the objective reduction of quantum superpositions within entangled neural...
A philosophy-of-mind reflection on duality. It argues that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of "seeing whole" corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on...
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...