This article offers a comprehensive philosophical and critical reading of poet and the great Odia lyricist Dr. Panchanan Nayak's Bird (Whispers of the Wind, Melodies of the Soul), translated into English by Dr. Sonali Sahu. Rather than treating the collection merely as a volume of lyrical poems, the present study argues that Bird constitutes a sustained philosophical meditation on existence,...
This paper advances a novel framework for understanding feelings of reality (FR), the elusive yet fundamental dimension through which the self and the world are felt as real. Drawing on descriptive phenomenology, clinical psychopathology, and altered-state research, we characterize FR as non-conceptual phenomenal qualities through which the self and world are experienced as immediate and...
Abstract Psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, LSD, ayahuasca, DMT, or mescaline, when employed with knowledge and skill, can sometimes lead to profoundly meaningful and transformative subjective experiences. This chapter discusses how the predictive processing theory can further our understanding of these deeply meaningful spiritual psychedelic experience. It makes a more specific...
In this article, I investigate the relationship between touch and self-world boundaries in the phenomenology of autism.While tactile differences are increasingly recognized as fundamental to autistic experience, they are predominantly conceptualized within a quantitative framework that measures autistic sensing up against a putative norm of sensory processing.By contrast, first-person reports...
RATIONALE: Contemporary psychiatry increasingly recognises the importance of person-centred, recovery-oriented, and biopsychosocial approaches to care. Yet these frameworks do not fully resolve the methodological question of how clinicians should investigate patients' lived experience in ways that inform ethical psychiatric practice. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This paper argues that phenomenology...
We propose the Chaos-State Space Dream Model (CSSDM): a candidate neural correlate of dream consciousness. CSSDM treats dreaming as the brain's exploration of hierarchically organized attractor landscapes when sensory anchoring lifts and prefrontal control attenuates during REM sleep. The proposal combines two published frameworks. From chaos-theoretic accounts of dream phenomenology, we take...
Meditative expertise involves sustained attention, rapid recovery from distraction, and coordinated dynamics of large-scale brain networks. We present a computational phenomenology of focused-attention meditation traversing four attractor states: breath focus, mind-wandering, meta-awareness, and redirect attention. Within a dual-process active inference formulation, the model implements a...
This research contributes to an innovative rearticulation of the Philosophy of Information by defining it as a phenomenology of information, both in its most basic sense as a phenomenology of certainty and as a phenomenology of identity. It is argued that the ultimate condition of possibility of conscious experience is certainty, understood in terms of reflexive identity and informational...
Contemporary cognitive science is predominantly grounded in physicalist assumptions that locate cognition and consciousness in neural and computational processes. While these approaches have yielded significant empirical advances, they often struggle to account for the qualitative and first-person structure of experience. This paper proposes an ethno-phenomenological perspective by engaging...