Abstract AbstractThis paper asks whether first-person subjectivity can be adequately explained in purely physical-functional terms. I approach the question through what I call the AI duplication paradox—the ontological difficulty that arises when one and the same computational architecture is instantiated in parallel across multiple substrates—and argue that functionalism cannot account for the...
This report presents a detailed phenomenological analysis of a self-observed psilocybin experience conducted under controlled conditions and documented through contemporaneous notes and post-session reconstruction. The study focuses on the structure of subjective experience rather than on pharmacological outcomes alone. Particular attention is given to alterations in bodily awareness, spatial...
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...