This paper offers a rigorous philosophical roadmap that challenges the hegemony of contemporary reductionist scientism and explores new pathways toward an integrative view of reality. Taking the "hard problem of consciousness" and its explanatory gap as a starting point, the author deconstructs the ontological claims of materialism and maps out alternative models of the mind-brain relationship,...
Metacognition is an important aspect of information processing in the brain, subserving judgement and making cognition robust. In the literature, there are different views on the role metacognition plays in consciousness. The role of meta-cognition has been addressed by various studies. In relation to consciousness, some authors argue that metacognition is not necessarily essential in...
This paper distinguishes two forms of consciousness that are often conflated in debates about artificial intelligence: pre-reflective experiential awareness and reflective self-consciousness. Drawing on phenomenology, Kant, and con-temporary philosophy of mind, it argues that pre-reflective awareness involves the minimal self-involvement characteristic of phenomenal experience, while reflective...
Perspectival Control Identity Theory (PCIT) proposes a falsifiable, intervention-based identity program for phenomenal consciousness. The central claim is an a posteriori identity: phenomenal consciousness is identical to a specific kind of internal control variable, a Perspectival Control State (PCS)—a temporally extended, viability-weighted stream that makes an agent's competing needs...
Emerging research in contemplative science and psychedelic neuroscience suggests that deeply entrenched patterns of selfhood and cognition—often associated with mental disorders like depression—can be profoundly altered through both meditative practice and pharmacological intervention. This paper presents a neuroconstructivist framework for understanding how deep meditation and dissociative...
This article builds on the work of Peter Levine to argue for an embodied approach to trauma that has no single causal event or definitive ongoing cause of harm. These “estranged sorrows” emerge based in blocks to learning that occur throughout one’s life, either through a lack of meaningful relation in early development or through being raised in an environment anchored in a cultural complex....
This interdisciplinary essay explores resonance, music, perception, and synchronization as potential bridges toward understanding complex adaptive systems. Beginning with the phenomenological experience of immersive orchestral music, the paper investigates how collective synchronization, adaptive coupling, and distributed coherence may provide intuitive access to systemic dynamics that are...
The proposition of "inexpressible, inexpressible" in Buddhist scriptures has long been misinterpreted by the public and some researchers as irrational mysticism, or dismissed as an evasive rhetorical device to avoid in-depth exploration of doctrinal implications. Taking the boundary of language as the core entry point, this paper attempts to construct an interdisciplinary theoretical framework...
This methodological preprint presents a neurophenomenological calibration protocol for first-person validation of contemplative practices. The core hypothesis: the cognitive register "where am I?" combined with a somatic anchor (Nabho-mudra: tongue to soft palate) switches attention from narrative self-referential processing (DMN) to configurational, non-evaluative presence (SN/CEN balance)....
This article argues that feminist phenomenology offers a strong account of embodiment and subjectivity. It shows that human experience cannot be fully understood by treating the body as a neutral biological object or the subject as a disembodied consciousness. Instead, people relate to the world through embodied existence formed by gender, social norms, culture, power, history, sexuality, race,...