We propose three entangled characteristics that explain the functional properties of consciousness: Emotion, quantum-like interference and hierarchy. The argument proceeds from thermodynamic first principles. Biological systems must stay far from equilibrium at minimal energy cost, and emotion is one of evolution’s heuristic solutions to this constraint. Valenced summary statistics compress the...
Abstract This paper establishes a fully deductive account of phenomenological lack grounded in diachronic self-identity. I demonstrate that any system satisfying diachronic identity necessarily operates under temporal indexation, which analytically entails the formation of a minimal self-model as a structural requirement of maintaining identity across non-coincident temporal states. From this,...
Space and time are irreducible dimensions of nature—measurable but not derivable from anything more fundamental. Life and experience are here proposed as similarly irreducible dimensions. Together—sometimes referred to as lifeexperience to mark their inseparability—they constitute the dimensional ground from which emerges the Force of Experience—proposed as a candidate fifth fundamental force...
Perception is increasingly framed, across neuroscience and theoretical psychology, as an active inferential process rather than a passive transcription of the external world. Contemporary models suggest that sensory experience emerges from internally generated hypotheses constrained by prediction, uncertainty, and the statistical structure of the environment. Long before these developments,...
Gaston Bachelard brings the forgotten classical elements of earth, water, air and fire back to philosophy in the 1930s and 1940s by writing at least one book dedicated to each of these elements. The elements are not at all what science, for example, chemistry says of them, but something experiential, phenomenological, imaginative, psychological and poetic as they inspire us to live, dream,...
This study investigated the effects of hypnosis on consciousness and ocular activity in two participants S01 and S02. EEG and EOG signals were recorded during a P300 oddball paradigm, both before and after Ericksonian hypnotic induction. Consciousness was quantified using the Normalized Consciousness Level (NCL) via the ncl-matlab toolbox, while eye movements were characterized using standard...
Modern cognitive landscapes are structurally defined by hyper-stimulation and unprecedented attentional fragmentation, rendering the human psyche perpetually vulnerable to chronic cognitive distraction. This white paper establishes an integrative psychological paradigm by synthesizing classical Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Specifically, Maharshi Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the existential...
HealthcareJuly 2, 2026Asrar Almutairi, Alya Alghamdi, Norah Mohammed Alyahya et al.
Background: While the consumer experience of psychosis has received significant attention in Western research, a substantial gap exists regarding the experiences of women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In this context, religious, cultural, familial, and gender-specific factors uniquely shape the experience of psychosis, help-seeking behaviors, and recovery. This study aimed to explore...
Abstract What makes some intuitions more skilful than others? To answer this question, I first argue that prominent phenomenalist views of intuition—which define intuitions as mental states with a unique phenomenology—cannot capture the distinction between skilful and unskilful intuitions. I then propose a desideratum for an account of skilful intuition: they must address the problem of...
This article investigates the theoretical foundations of fractality as a cross-disciplinary concept bridging philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive science. The primary aim is to explore how fractal models originally developed in mathematics by Benoît Mandelbrot can illuminate the structure of thought, consciousness, and cultural texts. Fractality is understood not only as a geometric property...