Independent Scholar working at the intersection of consciousness studies, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, social neuroscience, predictive processing, and participatory sense-making.
Human beings navigate daily life by relying on a set of implicit assumptions about reality, assumptions so deeply ingrained as to appear self-evident. This paper examines ten of these assumptions, collectively termed naïve psychology, and demonstrates that each of them, when subjected to rigorous scientific and philosophical scrutiny, proves to be fundamentally mistaken. The ten beliefs...
The present paper explores the importance of the ethics of Sri Aurobindo in the context of the current intellectual and cultural discourse in France. For Aurobindo, ethics is not the set of absolute principles but a movement that is a part of the overall development process of consciousness. In “The Human Cycle”, the author introduces the notion of morality as one of the stages in the...
Abstract The debate between evangelical and skeptical scholars about Jesus’s post-mortem appearances has long been framed as a binary choice: either his followers literally saw a bodily resurrected Jesus (the Resurrection Hypothesis) or they experienced hallucinations and collective delusions (the Hallucination Hypothesis). This article argues that despite their radical disagreement, both...
Abstract Current medical and ethical standards governing organ harvesting under anesthesia rest on an assumption that has never been formally tested: that the absence of behavioral response and narrative consciousness constitutes the absence of all consciousness. This paper argues that this assumption is both scientifically unexamined and potentially incorrect. Drawing on a documented model of...
This article explores the notion of first-person authority (FPA) in self-disorders (SD). It will be argued that the ‘ipseity disturbance model’ (IDM) of SD cannot account for the FPA of reports of disturbed mineness in SD. Moreover, it will be argued that the phenomenological account of a ‘loss of common sense’ - typically coupled with the IDM - cannot account for the FPA of reports of...
This article analyzes the relationship and correlation between the cognitive unconscious, phenomenal consciousness, and access consciousness. N. Blok’s distinction between phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience, “what it’s like to be”) and access consciousness (information available for behavioral control and verbal reporting) is used as a theoretical framework. This approach is...
Salah (Islamic ritual prayer) is one of the fundamental practices of Islam and constitutes a recurring form of worship through which Muslims cultivate remembrance of Allah, spiritual consciousness, humility, discipline, and moral responsibility. Beyond its theological significance, growing academic interest has examined prayer and related religious practices in relation to psychological...
Abstract Through a critical reflection on Eric Voegelin’s narrative of the Chinese spiritual breakthrough, Chen Yun’s The Historical Philosophy of Civilization attempts to revise and reconstruct the “Image of China” in the Ecumenic Age. This reconstruction is defined by four comparative dimensions. First, the Sage (圣人), rather than the King (帝王), is identified as the true carrier of the Chinese...
This research elucidates the cognitive mechanisms of bodily motion-emotion expressions and strengthens the theoretical foundation for embodied meaning construction in language. A detailed analysis of the essence of consciousness activity in constructing bodily motion-emotion expressions through gestalt transformation implies a development from primary consciousness to reflective consciousness,...