Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse the experience of disembodiment in light of Husserl’s phenomenology. Given that disembodiment is characterized by a diminished sense of body ownership, it is usually interpreted in a Cartesian manner as involving a mind-body dichotomy. Contrary to this view, firstly, I argue that the dualist interpretation of disembodiment is phenomenologically...
This work presents cosmological neuroscience as an interdisciplinary field placing the essence of neuroscience into cosmic contexts by the vision of a God-inspired Soul of Multiverse, viewing the human brain as an organ empowered by a Soul in its prefrontal cortical neural supercircuitry, and intending to look into the relationship between these systems by wearable devices collecting...
Abstract The ethical framework presented in the Pāli Nikāya forms one of the earliest and most systematic expressions of Buddhist moral philosophy. Rooted in the teachings of the Buddha, this framework emphasizes the cultivation of wholesome conduct, mental discipline, and wisdom as the foundation for both individual well-being and social harmony. The Pāli Nikāya presents ethics not merely as a...
This paper proposes identity fusion as attention collapse: when consciousness narrows completely onto single aspects of experience (diagnostic labels, professional roles, parental identity, recovery status, spiritual attainment), that aspect becomes experientially totalizing regardless of cultural valuation. The framework emerged through systematic phenomenological observation, documenting...
In this contribution, I explore the idea that reality is best understood as fundamentally dynamic and interdependent, i.e., processual, bringing together resources from process thought, phenomenology and the Madhyamaka school of Buddhism. I furthermore explore how this view shapes the ways we speak about, investigate, and understand the natural world. What is novel in my approach is that I...
This essay examines Wilfrid Sellars’s critique of the “myth of the given” in empiricism, arguing that all knowledge—including perceptual knowledge—is mediated by a conceptual‑linguistic network. Drawing on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (1971), the paper shows that Sellars’s distinction between “seeing that something is the case” and merely “seeing something” entails that experience is...
In Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and for a Phenomenological Philosophy ( Ideas I ), particularly in paragraphs 73 to 75, we find a clear differentiation made by Husserl between pure transcendental phenomenology and mathematics. Both are considered eidetic sciences, but they differ in the nature of their essences, or, as highlighted by the author, “transcendental phenomenology belongs to a...
The question “What is consciousness?” is one of the oldest and most challenging problems in human thought. The attempt to understand consciousness, which stands at the center of humanity’s existential quest, has given rise to various intellectual traditions throughout history. In this context, panpsychism appears as one of the most deeply rooted approaches within the philosophy of mind. The...
The perception of eye gaze plays a pivotal role in human social interactions, which even occurs outside conscious awareness. However, whether such nonconscious gaze perception is susceptible to top-down cognitive processes, like working memory (WM), remains unclear. Using a delayed match-to-sample paradigm, we investigated the WM modulation on the perception of eye gaze rendered invisible...
We conducted two online surveys with German ghost hunting groups (GHGs) and individual ghost hunters. The first questionnaire targeted entire teams, the second individual members. Our goals were (1) to understand the current GHG scene in Germany—their composition, investigation approaches, and exceptional experiences (ExEs)—and (2) to gain insight into the people engaged in this time- and...