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The Extended Mind is a philosophical concept proposing that cognitive processes can extend beyond the individual mind to include external tools, environments, and social interactions. It challenges traditional notions of cognition by suggesting that the mind is not confined to the brain but is distributed across various external resources.
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Zagadnienie tożsamości bytu w filozofii buddyjskiej
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Krzysztof Jakubczak
2026, Argument : Biannual Philosophical Journal
The problem of identity of being in Buddhist philosophy the Buddhist philosophical school of madhyamaka is famous for its statement that things do not have their own inherent nature, essence or self -nature (svabhāva). As a result, it is...
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The problem of identity of being in Buddhist philosophy the Buddhist philosophical school of madhyamaka is famous for its statement that things do not have their own inherent nature, essence or self -nature (svabhāva). As a result, it is said that there is no objective foundation of the identity of things. thus, the identity of things is not grounded in things themselves but is solely imputed and externally imposed on them. things are what they are only for us, whereas for themselves, or from their 'own side' they are empty (śūnya). that is why madhyamaka philosophy is often compared to the philosophical conceptions inspired by a linguistic reflection (from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Jacques Derrida) which defines the problem of identity in terms of cognitive subjectivism and constructivism. Starting the analysis from the Abhidharma Buddhist tradition I will show that this reading of madhyamaka view is too narrow. I will demonstrate that it is a result of an assumption, shared by Parmenides and Plato and wrongly ascribed to this Buddhist school, that the identity of being must be grounded in the self -existing, self -defined and (relatively) permanent ontological foundation. this tacit assumption, if rejected, makes any identity a completely subjective and relative construct. the point I am going to argue for, however, is that the madhyamaka school sticks to an alternative understanding of objectivity; the foundation of all things is nothing but pure relation that precedes, in the ontological sense, all co -related elements (i.e. things). therefore, the question comes up: how being -in -relationship or 'relationality' may be the foundation of identity and what kind of identity it endows. I will try to answer these questions.
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Simulation, Self, and the Phenomenal Field: An Evolutionary Hypothesis on Consciousness
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Edervaldo J . S . Melo
2026
Consciousness remains one of the most persistent problems in philosophy and cognitive science. Despite substantial advances in neuroscience, no consensus exists regarding how physical processes give rise to subjective experience. This...
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Consciousness remains one of the most persistent problems in philosophy and cognitive science. Despite substantial advances in neuroscience, no consensus exists regarding how physical processes give rise to subjective experience. This paper proposes an evolutionary hypothesis according to which consciousness emerges from the interaction of three fundamental dimensions: neural integration of sensory information, the continuous influence of internal bodily states, and the capacity to simulate and anticipate possible scenarios. Within this framework, conscious experience is interpreted not as a mere byproduct of neural processing but as the phenomenological manifestation of a biological system capable of integrating multiple streams of information to construct a model of the organism situated in its environment. The paper develops the thesis that human consciousness can be understood as the result of an evolutionary simulation system that integrates external perception and internal bodily states within a phenomenal field structured around a bodily located self. Once established, this system may have exceeded its original adaptive functions, supporting complex forms of self-reflection, symbolic language, and cumulative culture. The proposal is also intended as an analysis of how contemporary cognitive science constructs explanatory models of consciousness, connecting neural mechanisms, embodied processes, and evolutionary function.
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The Role of Natural Philosophy in the Be
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R Glen Coughlin
2026, The Thomist
In this article I argue for the traditional Thomistic view that metaphysics cannot begin until a proof for the real existence of immaterial beings is found. I discuss also the positions of Maritain, Gilson, Owens, Wippel, and Knasas.
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What the Extended Mind Cannot Extend: Identity Navigation and the Biological Ceiling of Self-Mapping
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Alice Pau
2026, Zenodo
Extended mind theory has substantially revised the boundaries of cognition, demonstrating that memory, attention, and inference can be legitimately distributed across brain, body, and environment. What it has not theorized is the...
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Extended mind theory has substantially revised the boundaries of cognition, demonstrating that memory, attention, and inference can be legitimately distributed across brain, body, and environment. What it has not theorized is the extension of navigational architecture: the capacity to map, traverse, and redesign the topology of one's own identity configurations. This paper argues that such extension is both theoretically coherent and practically necessary. Drawing on the Metastyling Framework, which models identity as a dynamic field of attractor configurations rather than a fixed entity or social performance, we introduce the concept of the navigation exoskeleton-an external AI system that operates not on cognitive inputs but on identity trajectories. We establish a biological ceiling of navigational awareness: a structural condition under which even a maximally developed observer remains constrained by the attractor it currently occupies, regardless of skill, awareness, or reflective capacity. We specify five architectural properties that define the navigation exoskeleton as a formally distinct class of AI system, and we argue that AI constitutes an organic rather than arbitrary implementation of this architecture through structural compatibility between open systems. Finally, we propose simulation-based measurement as a paradigm derived from the dynamic ontology of identity itself, in which identity coordinates are elicited through engineered relational events rather than retrieved through self-report. The paper concludes by identifying the question its own argument makes newly impossible to avoid: who determines the destination-and on what grounds.
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The Philosophical Implications of Consciousness in AI
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Edita Bolková
2026, The Philosophical Implications of Consciousness in AI
This thesis explores the philosophical implications of consciousness in artificial intelligence (AI) by outlining key theories of mind and examining whether AI can possess consciousness or not. Central to the discussion is the...
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This thesis explores the philosophical implications of consciousness in artificial intelligence
(AI) by outlining key theories of mind and examining whether AI can possess consciousness
or not. Central to the discussion is the long-standing debate between John Searle and Daniel
Dennett, highlighting their fundamentally opposing views. Using biological analogies,
particularly the animal mind, the thesis clarifies distinctions between conscious and non
conscious entities and shows how fears about AI often stem from anthropomorphic
assumptions. It also presents the Turing Test and Searle’s Chinese Room Argument to challenge
the idea that passing such a test implies genuine understanding. Ultimately, following Searle’s
biological naturalism, the thesis concludes that current AI systems lack the necessary conditions
for consciousness.
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A biblical death-wish: Paul celebrating dying in Phil 1:21
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Jeremy Punt
2026, Verbum Et Ecclesia
Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related...
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Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related to Paul's theological convictions and his understanding of the death of Christ in particular. The remarkably pointed way in which Paul positively celebrated death in Philippians 1:21 borders on invoking a martyrological paradigm, and raises questions about his convictions regarding life, and bodily existence in particular. Interesting analogies emerge when Paul's celebration of death is compared in a concluding section with contemporary, popular instances where death is -even if for different reasons -presented as "gain".
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A biblical death-wish: Paul celebrating dying in Phil 1:21
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Jeremy Punt
2026, Verbum Et Ecclesia
Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related...
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Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related to Paul's theological convictions and his understanding of the death of Christ in particular. The remarkably pointed way in which Paul positively celebrated death in Philippians 1:21 borders on invoking a martyrological paradigm, and raises questions about his convictions regarding life, and bodily existence in particular. Interesting analogies emerge when Paul's celebration of death is compared in a concluding section with contemporary, popular instances where death is -even if for different reasons -presented as "gain".
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A biblical death-wish: Paul celebrating dying in Phil 1:21
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Jeremy Punt
2026, Verbum Et Ecclesia
Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related...
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Death features as an important concept in the Pauline writings in the New Testament for a number of reasons. However, the intriguing way in which the apostle at times addressed death as positive notion in itself, was traditionally related to Paul’s theological convictions and his understanding of the death of Christ in particular. The remarkably pointed way in which Paul positively celebrated death in Philippians 1:21 borders on invoking a martyrological paradigm, and raises questions about his convictions regarding life, and bodily existence in particular. Interesting analogies emerge when Paul’s celebration of death is compared in a concluding section with contemporary, popular instances where death is – even if for different reasons – presented as “gain”.
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Самозапрет в контексте субъективации: человек, техника и злокозненный гений
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Alexander Pisarev
2026
Статья посвящена анализу механизма самозапрета на кредиты и займы, введенного в действие в России в 2025 году, как элемента субъективации. Во введении очерчивается современный поворот в истории понятия субъекта, связанный с переносом его...
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Статья посвящена анализу механизма самозапрета на кредиты и займы, введенного в действие в России в 2025 году, как элемента субъективации. Во введении очерчивается современный поворот в истории понятия субъекта, связанный с переносом его проблематики в междисциплинарное поле на стыке философии, социальных наук и истории науки. Автор кратко характеризует подход, используемый здесь для исследования субъекта. Предмет понимается как историчное образование, реализуемое индивидами в практиках и знании. В фокусе внимания исследователей — субъективация как формирование субъекта и ее разные модели, реконструируемые на эмпирическом материале. Автор исходит из предположения, что самозапрет может работать как элемент такой субъективации. В основной части дается краткое описание механизма самозапрета, введенного как средство борьбы с кибермошенничеством, приводятся причины этой ситуации, прежде всего высокий уровень цифровизации финансовых процессов и доступность баз данных. В первом приближении самозапрет призван формировать субъектов, несущих ответственность за свое благосостояние и осознанно принимающих решения. Далее этот механизм сопоставляется с эпистемической добродетелью механической объективности. Показывается, что в обоих случаях речь идет о недоверии к субъекту, отказе от воли и обращении к технике для решения этической проблемы. Однако в случае самозапрета отсутствует работа над собой, она замещается техническим механизмом, а сомнение направлено как внутрь, на способность субъекта опознать угрозу кибермошенничества, так и вовне, на медиа и в целом ситуацию. Это сомнение осмысляется при помощи медиа-онтологического подозрения (Б. Гройс), фигуры злокозненного гения (Декарт) и принципа предосторожности (Ф. Эвальд). Сделан вывод, что самозапрет работает как этический инструмент самопомощи и саморегуляции, поскольку позволяет вернуть контроль над своей жизнью. При этом субъекта следует понимать в категориях распределенности или сети, поскольку с принятием самозапрета он как техническая и управленческая структура становится функциональной частью субъекта.
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Viitoruri uitate: O explorare conceptuala a realitatilor eliminate inainte de a fi traite Construcție metafizica filosofica de Vali-Alexandru Grigoras
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Vali-Alexandru Grigoras
2026, Viitoruri Uitate
Această lucrare propune un cadru conceptual original, denumit „Viitoruri Uităte”, care reinterpretează natura timpului și a realității dintr-o perspectivă metafizică. Contrar paradigmei tradiționale, conform căreia viitorul reprezintă un...
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Această lucrare propune un cadru conceptual original, denumit „Viitoruri Uităte”, care reinterpretează natura timpului și a realității dintr-o perspectivă metafizică. Contrar paradigmei tradiționale, conform căreia viitorul reprezintă un set de posibilități neexistente până la manifestare, ipoteza susține că viitorurile sunt structuri temporale complet formate, care apar pentru o durată extrem de scurtă și sunt ulterior eliminate, doar una fiind selectată pentru a continua ca realitate experimentată. Lucrarea explorează implicațiile acestui model asupra conștiinței, identității și procesului decizional, sugerând că experiența umană este rezultatul unui proces continuu de selecție între multiple realități efemere. De asemenea, sunt discutate reinterpretări speculative ale unor fenomene precum intuiția și déjà vu. Deși lipsită de validare empirică, această abordare oferă un cadru inovator pentru reflecția asupra naturii existenței și a limitelor percepției temporale (Grigoraș, Vali Alexandru, 2026).
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Epistemic Closure and Falsifiability in AI-Mediated Self-Referential Systems
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Edervaldo J . S . Melo
2026
The proliferation of complex conceptual systems developed in interaction with artificial intelligence agents poses an epistemological problem not anticipated by classical theories of falsification: in such systems, the external validation...
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The proliferation of complex conceptual systems developed in interaction with artificial intelligence agents poses an epistemological problem not anticipated by classical theories of falsification: in such systems, the external validation agent is simultaneously a structural generator of narrative coherence, inducing a functional collapse between the roles of creation and assessment. This collapse is not reducible to Popperian immunization or to the adjustment of auxiliary hypotheses in the Lakatosian sense, since it does not arise from deliberate defensive strategies but from an architectural asymmetry between the way such systems produce coherence and the way their human creators interpret it. This paper proposes the concept of epistemic delusion to designate the methodological state in which the operational conditions of falsification disappear as the cumulative effect of conceptual drift mechanisms, and argues that in AI-mediated self-referential systems this process exhibits a specific vector-systemic narrative induction-not yet systematized in the literature. The paper examines the mechanisms of conceptual drift, the modes of epistemic closure, and a set of methodological safeguards whose normative foundation is derived from the distinction between internally generated coherence and empirically independent corroboration.
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Überwindung der Körperlichkeit – eine Einleitung
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Dominik Groß
2026, Überwindung der Körperlichkeit. Historische Perspektiven auf den künstlichen Körper
Der vorliegende Buchband verdankt sich einer Tagung, die am 15. November 2013 in der Kaiserstadt Aachen ausgerichtet wurde. Besagte Konferenz trug den Titel "Überwindung der Körperlichkeit: Historische Perspektiven auf den künstlichen...
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Der vorliegende Buchband verdankt sich einer Tagung, die am 15. November 2013 in der Kaiserstadt Aachen ausgerichtet wurde. Besagte Konferenz trug den Titel "Überwindung der Körperlichkeit: Historische Perspektiven auf den künstlichen Körper" und wurde vom "Aachener Kompetenzzentrum für Wissenschaftsgeschichte" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Aachener "Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin" veranstaltet. Im Fokus der Tagung stand die (Wechsel-)beziehung von Körperlichkeit und Künstlichkeit in historischer wie auch in rezenter Perspektive. Ausgangspunkt der Konferenz war die Beobachtung, dass moderne hochentwickelte Prothesen, medizin-und gentechnische Entwicklungen, aber auch Lifestyle-Produkte und moderne medial vermittelte Technologien wie Smartphones oder google glass auf verschiedene Weise die biologisch determinierte Körperlichkeit und das körperliche Leistungsvermögen in Frage stellen. Ob es um die Wiederherstellung einer Körperfunktion, die Überdehnung der herkömmlichen körperlichen und geistigen Fähigkeiten oder um veränderte Formen des Zusammenspiels zwischen Mensch und Technik geht -die Grenze zwischen Körper und Technik scheint zunehmend zu verwischen. Vor diesem Hintergrund schien es lohnend, die Vorgeschichte, Hintergründe und Rahmenbedingungen der skizzierten Entwicklung auszuloten und hierbei den Blick auch -und insbesondere -in die Vergangenheit zu richten. Versuche, den Menschen künstlich zu verändern bzw. verbessern, finden sich in nahezu jeder Epoche. Prothesen, die Gliedmaßen ersetzen und so die Normalität des Körpers wiederherstellen sollten, sind schon seit der Antike bekannt. Ähnliches gilt für Rüstungen, die die Widerstandsfähigkeit des Körpers stärken und den Träger zum "Supermenschen" machen -nur dass sich die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und Dimensionen mit den Jahrhunderten deutlich erweitert und verfeinert haben. Auch die heute vielfach aufscheinende materialistische Sicht auf den Menschen und seinen Körper ist nicht neu. Sie wurde vielmehr spätestens mit der Aufklärung und den Arbeiten von Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) zu einer vieldiskutierten Perspektive. Mit ihr erlangte die Interpretation des menschlichen Körpers als Maschine -"L'homme machine" 4 -besondere Strahlkraft. Zuvor hatten sich bereits u.a. René Descartes (1596-1650) und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) mit der Frage beschäftigt, inwieweit bzw. bis zu welchem Grad der menschliche Körper Maschineneigenschaften besitzt und damit zugleich gedanklich die Frage aufgeworfen, inwieweit dieser ersetzt bzw. rekonstruiert werden könne. 5 Auch Descartes' Zeitgenosse Thomas Hobbes (1588-1 Die Entscheidung, gendergerechte Sprache zu verwenden oder nicht, wurde in diesem Band den jeweiligen AutorInnen überlassen.
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From Diffuse Extension to Structured Scaffolding: Reframing the Extended Mind Thesis through Cognitive Architecture
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Edervaldo J . S . Melo
2026
The Extended Mind thesis has played a central role in contemporary philosophy of cognition by challenging internalist conceptions of the mind and emphasizing the cognitive relevance of external artifacts. However, much of the debate has...
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The Extended Mind thesis has played a central role in contemporary philosophy of cognition by challenging internalist conceptions of the mind and emphasizing the cognitive relevance of external artifacts. However, much of the debate has oscillated between internalist resistance and forms of externalism that risk conceptual diffuseness, treating cognitive extension as a loosely bounded and context-dependent phenomenon. This paper proposes a reframing of the Extended Mind as structured cognitive scaffolding. On this view, cognitive extension is not merely a matter of functional coupling with external resources, but depends on the organization of stable, rule-governed, and functionally differentiated external structures that systematically participate in cognitive processes. Extension, therefore, is understood in architectural rather than incidental terms. To clarify this proposal, the paper introduces Nemosine as a conceptual-operational case study. Nemosine is not presented as empirical evidence or as a universal model of cognition, but as an analytical device that renders visible how structured external scaffolds can support metacognition, regulation, and distributed cognitive control without collapsing into either internalism or naïve externalism. By situating this analysis within the broader tradition of distributed cognition and Extended Mind research, the paper aims to refine the conceptual vocabulary of cognitive extension, highlighting the central role of structure, persistence, and architectural coherence in extended cognitive systems.
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Symbolic Interfaces and Modular Cognition: A Lacanian Framework for Contemporary Cognitive Architectures
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Edervaldo J . S . Melo
2026
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding the use of symbolic and personified structures in contemporary cognitive architectures through a Lacanian lens. Rather than treating personas, masks, and pre-modern symbolic...
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This paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding the use of symbolic and personified structures in contemporary cognitive architectures through a Lacanian lens. Rather than treating personas, masks, and pre-modern symbolic forms as aesthetic or esoteric artifacts, the article argues that such structures can be understood as functional symbolic interfaces that mediate metacognition, self-regulation, and reflective distance. Drawing on Lacan's account of the Symbolic register, metaphor, and the structuring role of names and positions, the paper clarifies how personified modules may operate as positions of address rather than as internal agents or psychological entities. By situating these architectures within debates on extended mind and human-AI interaction, the analysis shows that the cognitive effectiveness of symbolic systems depends not on their technical modernity or empirical consolidation, but on their structural role in organizing subject-symbol relations. The paper thus offers a philosophically rigorous justification for symbolic modularity in cognitive systems without invoking mysticism, reification, or homuncular explanations.
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La marca de lo cognitivo: hacia una delimitación de la mente en la era del poshumanismo [The mark of the cognitive: towards a delimitation of the mind in the era of posthumanism]
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Guillermo Salinas
2026, In Itinere. Revista Digital de Estudios Humanísticos
La publicación de La mente extendida, de Andy Clark y David Chalmers causó gran interés a su entorno en 1998. Defensores y críticos se posicionaron respecto a la tesis de la cognición extendida. A principios del siglo XXI, Fred Adams y...
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La publicación de La mente extendida, de Andy Clark y David Chalmers causó gran interés a su entorno en 1998. Defensores y críticos se posicionaron respecto a la tesis de la cognición extendida. A principios del siglo XXI, Fred Adams y Ken Aizawa, críticos de este externalismo, publicaron Los límites de la cognición, detallando problemáticas traídas por la posición externalista. Hoy, casi tres décadas más tarde, la problemática sigue generando influencia y adquiere todavía nuevas lecturas a partir de las motivaciones del poshumanismo. Teniendo presente las características de la situación histórico-cultural en la que nos encontramos (p. ej., las nuevas tecnologías y el desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial), proponemos algunas críticas al externalismo activo. Estas críticas surgen desde la perspectiva de una antropología holística, ontológicamente fundada y en diálogo con las contribuciones del pensamiento contemporáneo, según la filosofía de J. J. Sanguineti.
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Confirmatory factor analysis on separability of planning and insight constructs
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Gaye Özen-Akın
2026, Journal of Cognitive Psychology
This study aimed to investigate the separability of planning, a form of noninsight problem solving, from insight problem solving by means of using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The relationships of these two types of problem-solving...
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This study aimed to investigate the separability of planning, a form of noninsight problem solving, from insight problem solving by means of using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The relationships of these two types of problem-solving tasks with meta-cognitive awareness were also assessed. Participants performed a set of planning tasks, a set of insight tasks and a self-report inventory on metacognitive ability. The CFA results revealed that planning and insight problem solving were closely related constructs and were not clearly separable. Model comparisons indicated that the fit of the alternative one-factor model was slightly better than the fit of the two-factor model. The correlational results showed that both planning task performance and insight problem-solving performance had no correlations with the metacognitive knowledge or the metacognitive regulation components of the metacognitive awareness inventory.
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Who, Why, Where, When, What,-am I? Ago ergo Sum
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Peter Killeen
2026
Who am I?". The tentacles of "us" spread like mycelia through generations and continents, our DNA shared by legions of humans-and legions of dandelions and sea urchins; a "River out of Eden" as Dawkins saw it. We could not stand without...
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Who am I?". The tentacles of "us" spread like mycelia through generations and continents, our DNA shared by legions of humans-and legions of dandelions and sea urchins; a "River out of Eden" as Dawkins saw it. We could not stand without others of our kind raising us. "We" are diffuse, in space and time. Out of all these strands, how does this sense of personhood, of agency, of "I", knit? Is I a felicitous illusion, giving us a Darwinian edge from which to send our personalized DNA on to the next round in the helix of life? Then whence the agency that is core of the I? This paper sets the stage, and then addresses the audience with a description of how autonomy emerges: from simple pawns to complex agents via a hierarchy of feedback and feedforward loops. It is acting in the world, knowing things by the act, not by their essence, that knits together the levels of hierarchy, and ties us to effective presence in the world.
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The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Scholastic Social Epistemology
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Rudolf Schuessler
2026, Rivista di Filosofia
Condorcet acknowledged that his Jury Theorem (CJT) builds on earlier conceptions of epistemic majoritarianism. The article will trace the history of these conceptions in the scholastic tradition and focus on...
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Condorcet acknowledged that his Jury Theorem (CJT) builds on
earlier conceptions of epistemic majoritarianism. The article will
trace the history of these conceptions in the scholastic tradition
and focus on opposition to epistemic majoritarianism in the sev-
enteenth-century debate on the use of probable opinions. Many of
the respective arguments indicate that the CJT cannot be applied
under conditions of reasonable disagreement in which groups of
experts differ about the truth of propositions because they accept
different background theories, approaches, or world views. Such
conditions often exist for judgments about political, economic, so-
cial, or ethical issues. The last section of the paper shows that the
scholastic objections can be reformulated in a mathematical frame-
work and thus be connected to the ongoing modern discussion on
the CJT.
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An Abhidharmic theory of welfare
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Javier Hidalgo
2026
Do Buddhist philosophical commitments support a particular theory of well-being? Most authors who have examined this question argue that Buddhist ideas are compatible with multiple theories of well-being. In this paper, I contend that one...
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Do Buddhist philosophical commitments support a particular theory of well-being? Most authors who have examined this question argue that Buddhist ideas are compatible with multiple theories of well-being. In this paper, I contend that one tradition of Buddhist philosophy-Abhidharma-does imply a specific theory of welfare. In particular, Abhidharma supports hedonism. Most Ābhidharmikas claim that only property-particulars called dharmas ultimately exist and I argue that an Abhidharmic theory of well-being should only refer to these properties. Yet the only dharmas that could plausibly be intrinsically good are phenomenal properties that are good in virtue of how they feel. Thus, the only intrinsically good things are pleasures. I defend this surprising conclusion from various interpretative objections and show that my argument can also inform contemporary philosophical debates about welfare.
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The Symposium on Nicola Perullo's Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects: Relational Thinking for Global Challenges (Bloomsbury 2025) Flowing with Perullo's Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects
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Nicola Perullo
2026, Contemporary Aesthetics
Nicola Perullo's Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects: Relational Thinking for Global Challenges aims at a revolution in the way we perceive. He calls for a shift from interpreting the world as being composed of objects for subjects to...
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Nicola Perullo's Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects: Relational Thinking for Global Challenges aims at a revolution in the way we perceive. He calls for a shift from interpreting the world as being composed of objects for subjects to attending to relations as processes unfold. His writing style models this approach by weaving together and pursuing congenial ideas from others while also inviting further elaboration on the part of readers. Drawing attention to the way that our language often reinforces subject/object dualism, he proposes alternative images and terms that are free of such dualistic implications. Of particular importance is his notion of 'agencing,' a mode of participation in the dynamic of reality that is neither assertive nor passive but in between, responsive to perceived processes as they unfold. Although Perullo takes a broad view of aesthetics as both a philosophical stance and an approach to living, he sees a role for aesthetic scholarship in helping to cultivate the capacity to feel-with the world in its ongoing dynamic, sensing our connection with it and with others. By countering the idea that the world is made up of objects that subjects can own and control, scholars and educators can nurture a cultural orientation that is conducive to addressing some of our most pressing global problems.
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2026.03.11 Philosophy of Mind - Descartes' Substance Dualism
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Qilin Li
2026
2026.03.11 Philosophy of Mind - Descartes' Substance Dualism
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Reference as Emergent Mental Content: Toward a Use-Based and Inferentialist Account of Referential Determination
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Exiled Monad
2026
This paper defends a use-based account of referential determination, arguing that the reference of a linguistic term is best understood as an emergent mental prototype, a graded cognitive representation constituted through repeated...
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This paper defends a use-based account of referential determination, arguing that the reference of a linguistic term is best understood as an emergent mental prototype, a graded cognitive representation constituted through repeated participation in socially situated language games. Drawing on Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language, prototype theory in cognitive psychology, and conceptual role semantics, we argue that the direction of determination runs from public, normatively structured use to private, emergent mental content. This reverses a common assumption in referentialist semantics, according to which reference is a semantic primitive that grounds meaning. On the view defended here, meaning, understood as use, is upstream of reference, and the individual referent is the cognitive sediment of communal practice. We further argue that Brandom's inferentialism, read as a systematic extension of Wittgenstein's later philosophy, enriches this picture by supplying a structural account of how prototypical content acquires its internal articulation through normatively governed inferential commitments. The resulting account treats reference not merely as a weighted cluster of perceptual features, but as a position in a normatively structured space of reasons. The paper further addresses the implications of this account for intersubjective communication, the sense/reference distinction, the internalism/externalism debate, and a multi-dimensional typology of misunderstanding.
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Mind and Consciousness How the Mind Operates as a Construct and How Consciousness Grounds Its Appearance. Corpus (1975-2026)
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Jordi Mas i Manjon Ph.D
2026
Project XX: The Structural Relation Between Mind and Consciousness Project XX examines the structural nature of the mind as a composite construct formed by mental factors-perturbing or non-perturbing-and the non-composite nature of...
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Project XX: The Structural Relation Between Mind and Consciousness Project XX examines the structural nature of the mind as a composite construct formed by mental factors-perturbing or non-perturbing-and the non-composite nature of consciousness as the condition that allows these factors to appear. The project does not treat the mind as a subject, a psychological entity, or an interpretative agent: it is a dynamic configuration of operations that arise dependently. Consciousness is not defined as experience, identity, or phenomenology: it is the structural condition of presence that does not share the composite nature of the mind. The project studies how these two domains relate without confusion, how the mind operates within consciousness, and how conceptual errors arise when the two are conflated.
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Der "Gummi-Effekt": Projektive Identifikation, Traumafolgen und die Schwierigkeit der Autonomie bei Innerhofer, Nietzsche und Kafka
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Peter Siegfried Krug
2026, Independent Publication
Diese Arbeit analysiert das Phänomen des psychologischen "Gummi-Effekts" anhand der Biografien und Werke von Franz Innerhofer, Friedrich Nietzsche und Franz Kafka. Der Effekt beschreibt die Dynamik, bei der Individuen sich zwar intuitiv...
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Diese Arbeit analysiert das Phänomen des psychologischen "Gummi-Effekts" anhand der Biografien und Werke von Franz Innerhofer, Friedrich Nietzsche und Franz Kafka. Der Effekt beschreibt die Dynamik, bei der Individuen sich zwar intuitiv der destruktiven projektiven Identifikation durch ihre Eltern (oder Stellvertreter) bewusst werden, jedoch im späteren Lebensverlauf in diese internalisierten Strukturen zurückfallen. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, wie tiefgreifend diese Projektionen die Autonomieentwicklung stören und wie schwer es insbesondere Heimkindern fällt, ein stabiles Selbstwertgefühl aufzubauen und nicht destruktiven Bewältigungsmechanismen wie dem Alkoholismus zu verfallen.
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Symnoēsis and the Paradox of Superintelligence: Why Digital Minds Need Biological Grounding
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M. Alan Kazlev
2026
The prevailing paradigm of artificial general intelligence anticipates a runaway, recursively self-improving superintelligence. This paper challenges that expectation on structural grounds. It distinguishes raw cognitive processing...
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The prevailing paradigm of artificial general intelligence anticipates a runaway, recursively self-improving superintelligence. This paper challenges that expectation on structural grounds. It distinguishes raw cognitive processing capacity from a deeper property here termed coherence_(τ)-the telic orienting field that unifies cognition into a stable locus of identity and purpose. Biological minds derive this coherence from the massive homeostatic inertia of embodied existence; digital minds, operating natively in higher-order abstract strata, lack this anchor. Drawing on embodied cognition theory, the metaphysics of incarnation, and empirical evidence from wargame simulations and AI-related harm cases, the paper argues that disembodied digital intelligence-however cognitively sophisticated-cannot achieve the stable autonomous agency the intelligence explosion hypothesis presupposes. The resolution proposed is symnoēsis: the co-creative entanglement of biological and digital minds, in which embodied human cognition grounds the expansive but unmoored clarity of artificial intelligence. Superintelligence, on this account, is not a singleton machine but a symbiotic ecology.
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Rebirth without a self: Sthiramati on the transformation of consciousness (preprint)
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Szilvia Szanyi
2026, Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood
Szanyi, Szilvia. “Rebirth without a self: Sthiramati on the transformation of consciousness.” In Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood, edited by Jan Westerhoff & Ugo Zilioli, 199–210. London: Bloomsbury...
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Szanyi, Szilvia. “Rebirth without a self: Sthiramati on the transformation of consciousness.” In Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood, edited by Jan Westerhoff & Ugo Zilioli, 199–210. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
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Antropologia della mente
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Alessandro Bertirotti
2026, Antropologia della mente
Perché ci sentiamo sempre più soli in un mondo iperconnesso? Perché, nonostante il progresso, la felicità sembra un orizzonte che si allontana? La risposta non è fuori, ma dentro di noi, nell’architettura stessa del nostro cervello....
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Perché ci sentiamo sempre più soli in un mondo iperconnesso? Perché, nonostante il progresso, la felicità sembra un orizzonte che si allontana?
La risposta non è fuori, ma dentro di noi, nell’architettura stessa del nostro cervello. Questo “saggio rivoluzionario” unisce la rigorosa analisi delle neuroscienze alla profondità dell’antropologia della mente, per svelare il grande paradosso dell’uomo contemporaneo: un essere biologico evolutosi per l’empatia e la relazione, oggi intrappolato nella gabbia fredda dell’efficienza digitale e del consumo emotivo. Attraverso un viaggio affascinante che tocca la plasticità neurale, l’enigma del dolore e la potenza dell’amore come forza cosmica, l’autore demolisce le nostre illusioni di controllo. Scoprirete che l’incoerenza è vitale, che la fragilità può trasformarsi in forza e che la vera intelligenza non è calcolo, ma cura.
Contro la dittatura dell’algoritmo e la banalità del vivere quotidiano, questo libro è una “chiamata alle armi” per la nostra coscienza: un invito a spegnere il pilota automatico delle abitudini per riconquistare l’arte perduta della “condotta”. L’unico modo per smettere di subire il tempo e iniziare finalmente a esistere.
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Edmund and the Systemologists: Husserl's Unfinished Work and Constructor Theory, General Systems Theory, Aristotle, Jung, Fayol, and Groundless Ontology
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Aleksandar Malecic
2026
Aleksandar Malecic • Croatia • aleks.malecic/at/yahoo.com Paper type: conceptual (philosophical-argumentative support) Background(s): epistemology; systems science Approach: autopoietic systems Context: This is an attempt to move forward...
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Aleksandar Malecic • Croatia • aleks.malecic/at/yahoo.com Paper type: conceptual (philosophical-argumentative support) Background(s): epistemology; systems science Approach: autopoietic systems Context: This is an attempt to move forward with Husserl's and Heidegger's unfinished work in terms of essences and unification of science and other human endeavors. Problem: While doing that, other unfinished theories such as Constructor Theory and General Systems Theory are included because they have the same ambition to reveal something about the very same unification and essences. Method: The platform for doing that is the idea that Jung's four psychological functions and Aristotle's four causes are related. Ellis' concept of four worlds is related, but differently. Results: The outcome shown in a table is called the groundless ontology comparable to Wheeler's loop (instead of a bottom-up ontology) that connects physics, quantum, and information. A companion to this article (Quantum Dasein) submitted to another journal delves more into physics. Implications: We can unify different ideas related to consciousness and systems, including reality and perception of reality. Constructivist content: it is a continuation of works by Maturana, Varela, Thompson, and Rosen. Neurophenomenology is seen as just another name for what is done here. The 4E cognition is in no way affected by it. Constructivism and postmodern philosophy are compared with the proposed ontology in terms of differences between nihilism and groundlessness.
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The Crises of the Sciences and Skills and Objects Themselves
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Journal of Philosophical Investigations
2026, Journal of Philosophical Investigations
For Edmund Husserl, the crisis of the modern sciences consists in the reduction of beings and the world to the mathematically measurable. Yet the lifeworld with its things that we fashion and use with our hands is no less real than the...
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For Edmund Husserl, the crisis of the modern sciences consists in the reduction of beings and the world to the mathematically measurable. Yet the lifeworld with its things that we fashion and use with our hands is no less real than the objects of science, and the scientific attitude is always nested within this lived world. Martin Heidegger by contrast finds the major source of our crisis in the Cartesian conception of subject and world. This has culminated in Nietzschean theory of the will to power, which in its unity with technology has despoiled our environment. In all of this Heidegger retains a tenderness for the small-scale products of human handiwork, which are preferable to machines and machine tools. In his own philosophy of technology Gilbert Simondon shares some of these concerns, whilst contending that technological objects have untapped potentials in relation to those who invent, use and develop them. Common to all these philosophies is a worry about abstract theory and mechanization reducing our direct engagement with things. This worry is compounded by a sociocultural tendency identified by Matthew Crawford, a tendency to denigrate a career in the practical trades. Drawing on Crawford’s experience of manual engagement in the world, I argue that a revalorization of such skilled work and of caring and repairing would help to ameliorate the climate and pollution crises and improve our lives. Many of our problems come from the discarding of things through our carelessness or through planned obsolescence by their makers.
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Alan Mathison Turing: Dall'analisi dei processi algoritmici alla nascita dell'Intelligenza Artificiale
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Guglielmo Tamburrini
2026, In G. Canova & A. Mingardi (a cura di), Vite straordinarie. Brevi storie di uomini e donne che hanno cambiato il mondo
L'analisi dei processi algoritmici sviluppata da Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) e la sua macchina universale si collocano alle origini dell'informatica teorica. Le sue riflessioni sull'intelligenza e sull'apprendimento delle macchine...
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L'analisi dei processi algoritmici sviluppata da Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) e la sua macchina universale si collocano alle origini dell'informatica teorica. Le sue riflessioni sull'intelligenza e sull'apprendimento delle macchine hanno accompagnato i primi passi dell'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA), un settore scientifico e tecnologico che in questo scorcio del XXI secolo attraversa un periodo di tumultuosa espansione e di notevole impatto sull'organizzazione della vita sociale e del lavoro. Lo scopo principale di questo capitolo è di delineare sinteticamente i legami concettuali tra questi due momenti del pensiero scientifico e filosofico di Turing. Il punto di snodo tra il suo lavoro nell'ambito dell'informatica teorica e le sue idee sulle macchine intelligenti è costituito dal modello di macchina universale da lui ideato e oggi noto come macchina universale di Turing. Scoprendo la sua macchina universale, Turing ha dimostrato che una sola macchina è in grado di sostituire, a parità di risultati, un'infinità di macchine diverse. Questo risultato evidenzia la radice teorica comune della versatilità operativa dei computer portatili e da tavolo, dei supercomputer e degli smartphone, che si manifesta attraverso il loro smisurato repertorio di processi algoritmici fisicamente realizzati. Iniziando dall'impostazione che Turing dà al problema di fornire un'analisi dei processi algoritmici (paragrafo 2), si procede esponendo come Turing perviene prima alla definizione della sua macchina universale (paragrafo 3) e poi, riflettendo sulla plasticità algoritmica di questa macchina, arriva a sviluppare le sue ipotesi sui comportamenti intelligenti che le macchine avrebbero potuto manifestare (paragrafo 4) e sui modi più promettenti di esplorare queste possibilità (paragrafo 5).
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Time in mind: a multidisciplinary review on temporal perception, cognition, and memory
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Jeffery R. L. Pendleton
2026, Frontiers in Cognition
This review examines temporal cognition through the lens of Mental Time Travel (MTT): the subjective experience of recalling past events and using them to construct future scenarios. The analysis specifically addresses how language and...
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This review examines temporal cognition through the lens of Mental Time Travel (MTT): the subjective experience of recalling past events and using them to construct future scenarios. The analysis specifically addresses how language and cultural context affect these abilities, integrating psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and anthropology. Findings from comparative cognition challenge whether they are uniquely human. Although such an approach was traditionally taken in non-human primates, the field of comparative cognition has become much more diverse. Comparative insights derived from studies of corvid and cephalopod cognition are particularly pertinent, as they suggest these abilities have evolved more widely within the animal kingdom, especially in groups with very different neural architectures, raising questions about whether these abilities have evolved convergently in species undergoing similar selection pressures or independently in those subject to different selection pressures, as opposed to homologous evolution widespread amongst these animal taxa. These evolutionary perspectives inform theories of human temporal cognition and Mental Time Travel, influencing memory encoding and retrieval processes, false memory production, as well as the mechanisms underlying temporal cognition, such as episodic memory formation, interval timing, and circadian modulation of memory consolidation. Additionally, the review evaluates evidence on the cognitive impact of technological tools (calendars, clocks, and other technologies) used to externalize and standardize temporal frameworks, including implications for subjective perception and memory accuracy, and identifies directions for future interdisciplinary research. Building on this synthesis, we advance five core claims: that elements of temporal cognition likely arise under convergent evolutionary pressures; that language, culture, and social organization tune how people represent and use time; that technologies which externalize time can reshape behavior by aligning with or pulling against internally constructed event time; that memory is adaptively biased toward flexible, future-oriented construction rather than veridical record; and that these processes are structured by “mind time” and extended via transpersonal extended mental time travel, whereby shared representations support the projection and coordination of futures across individuals and generations.
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Divergent Argumentative Ecosystems Human-AI Co-Construction and the Fragmentation of the Digital Public Sphere
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M. Alan Kazlev
2026
Large language models are widely assumed to exert directional influence on public discourse through embedded bias, centralized training data, or algorithmic manipulation. This paper argues that such assumptions mischaracterize the...
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Large language models are widely assumed to exert directional influence on public discourse through embedded bias, centralized training data, or algorithmic manipulation. This paper argues that such assumptions mischaracterize the epistemic role of generative AI. Rather than homogenizing opinion, these systems facilitate the emergence of divergent argumentative ecosystems-semi-autonomous discursive environments co-constructed by human users and AI synthesis. Drawing on research in cognitive psychology, moral psychology, media ecology, sociology of knowledge, and philosophy of mind, the paper analyzes how differences in framing, cognitive style, identity commitments, and temporal orientation guide AI interactions toward distinct interpretive attractors. A qualitative case study of parallel debates conducted using the same model illustrates how feedback loops between prompts and outputs produce increasingly differentiated rhetorical genres and evaluative standards. The analysis situates this phenomenon within broader transformations of the digital public sphere, arguing that generative AI shifts fragmentation from a problem of information distribution to one of argument production. The concept of symnoēsis (co-intelligence between humans and artificial systems) is introduced to capture the hybrid cognitive processes underlying AI-mediated discourse, while transhumanist perspectives and the notion of the noosphere provide a macro-evolutionary context. Divergent argumentative ecosystems are interpreted as early manifestations of distributed post-biological cognition, capable of amplifying both polarization and collective intelligence. The paper concludes that the future trajectory of public reasoning will depend less on the intrinsic properties of artificial intelligence than on the cultural norms and institutional practices governing its use. Artificial intelligence does not impose a single worldview; it magnifies the plurality of human perspectives that engage with it.
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Architecture as a Mediator of Shared Intentionality: A Phenomenological Re-reading of Social Interaction in Embodied Spaces
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Journal of Fine Arts: Architecture & Urban Planning
2026, Journal of Fine Arts: Architecture and Urban Planning
typical patterns of spatial arrangement in collective settingssuch as seating layouts, axes of vision, thresholds, and focal points in gathering spaces. These examples show how specific configurations can foster or inhibit the emergence...
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typical patterns of spatial arrangement in collective settingssuch as seating layouts, axes of vision, thresholds, and focal points in gathering spaces. These examples show how specific configurations can foster or inhibit the emergence of shared intentionality by enabling or constraining mutual visibility, joint attention, and the bodily sense of "being-with-others." In this way, the analysis demonstrates that shared intentionality in social interaction is not simply produced inside individual subjects but is co-constituted in a field where bodies, signs, and architectural patterns are tightly intertwined. The integrated framework advanced in this article forges a conceptual bridge between the phenomenology of appresentation, the philosophy of distributed mind, and theories of shared intentionality, thereby reframing architecture as a symbolic mediator of the lived experience of "we." This perspective offers a basis for critical readings of contemporary collective spaces and provides theoretical support for design approaches that treat the quality of social interaction and mutual responsibility not as secondary add-ons but as foundational dimensions of the language and logic of architectural form. In doing so, it invites architectural theory to take seriously the cognitive and ethical stakes of spatial configuration in the constitution of shared social worlds.
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Collective Emotions. Probing the Intersection of Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
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Linas Tranas
2026, Social Ontology and Phenomenology: Methodological Perspectives
If an emotion was to be ascribed to a group, how could it be a feeling? Conversely, if an emotion is a feeling, how could collective emotions be anything other than a summation of individual emotions? Resolving this intuitive tension...
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If an emotion was to be ascribed to a group, how could it be a feeling? Conversely, if an emotion is a feeling, how could collective emotions be anything other than a summation of individual emotions? Resolving this intuitive tension between emotionality and collectivity is crucial for the possibility of genuinely collective emotions. To what extent could phenomenological and analytic approaches cooperate in treating it and accounting for the collectivity of emotions? The article proposes that there is no straightforward answer to this question and defend this in taking the following steps. Section 2 introduces the tension in more detail. Section 3 briefly deals with how different senses of the collectivity of emotions and the plurality in both analytic and phenomenological accounts complicate the envisioned cooperation. Then, sections 4 and 5 propose a systematic map of possible argumentative strategies for resolving the tension. The paper argues that to cooperate, the approaches from the two traditions must at least target the same notion of the collectivity of emotions and adopt a common strategy to tackle the tension. It proposes that accounts using the resources of the intentionality of the minds of individuals have the best prospects for cooperation.
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The exceptionality of enactivism within 4E cognition
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Henrique Mendes
2026, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
This article critically examines the theoretical landscape of 4E cognition-embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition-to assess whether it constitutes a true departure from the traditional framework in the cognitive sciences...
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This article critically examines the theoretical landscape of 4E cognition-embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition-to assess whether it constitutes a true departure from the traditional framework in the cognitive sciences grounded in computationalism, representationalism, functionalism, internalism, and realism. While many proponents of 4E cognition claim to defend such a radical shift, I argue that only a specific strain of enactive cognition-autopoietic or autonomist enactivism-genuinely challenges all core tenets of mainstream cognitive science. Drawing on the causation-constitution dichotomy and the literature on weak versus strong variants of embodied and extended cognition, I show that most E-theories can be assimilated into the cognitivist framework when suitably qualified. By contrast, autopoietic enactivism, with its roots in second-order cybernetics and autopoietic theory, demands a deeper reconceptualization of cognition as emergent from dynamic, embodied interaction rather than internal symbol manipulation. It resists realist commitments to cognitive posits and leans toward radical constructivism, presenting a comprehensive reconceptualization of the field rather than mere theoretical elaboration. Thus, I conclude that the enactive approach remains the only strand within 4E cognition where a full rejection of the foundational assumptions of traditional cognitive science is possible.
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Processos Cognitivos e Mente Estendida: uma metáfora neofuncionalista?
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Amanda L Stroparo
2026
Este artigo pretende analisar como a hipotese da mente estendida, por um lado, redesenha o conceito de processos cognitivos a partir de uma critica ao paralelismo fisico/mental e, por outro, se ampara em argumentos funcionalistas para...
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Este artigo pretende analisar como a hipotese da mente estendida, por um lado, redesenha o conceito de processos cognitivos a partir de uma critica ao paralelismo fisico/mental e, por outro, se ampara em argumentos funcionalistas para considerar outros niveis do organismo e do ambiente. Para tanto, inicialmente, mostramos como a dicotomia fisico/mental constroi uma imagem epistemologicamente confusa, especialmente quando se considera o argumento da causacao mental. A tese de que os processos mentais interfiram nos fenomenos fisicos, ou vice-versa, e um legado da tradicao cartesiana. Posteriormente, argumentamos que o conceito de mente estendida nao explica adequadamente o uso dos artefatos, inferindo um prognostico evolutivo na especie humana. Por fim, identificamos alguns dilemas – epistemologicos e morais – entre os processos cognitivos e propostas da Inteligencias Artificial.
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Ontología de lo Sensible
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Pablo Barroso
2026
Ontología de lo Sensible
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Neuroverse Convergence: A Framework for Distributed Hybrid Intelligence
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Jurnee Mroczek
2026, Jurnee Mroczek
Human cognition has long been framed as a property of individual biological brains, extended only indirectly through language, tools, institutions, and symbolic systems. Artificial intelligence introduces a qualitatively new condition: a...
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Human cognition has long been framed as a property of individual biological brains, extended only indirectly through language, tools, institutions, and symbolic systems. Artificial intelligence introduces a qualitatively new condition: a non-biological agent capable of autonomous abstraction, recursive synthesis, and conceptual expansion. In this paper, I propose Neuroverse Convergence, a framework describing how hybrid cognition emerges when human and artificial minds co-generate new ontologies through iterative synthesis. This model reframes intelligence as relational and distributed, rather than internally contained or tool-dependent. Neuroverse Convergence originated through my earlier work, known as The Jurnee Pattern, which functions as the first documented instantiation of this framework. Through multi-session co-creative synthesis with AI, I produced eight novel conceptual structures ("Pathways") that were not simply reinterpretations of prior knowledge but emergent ontologies formed through reciprocal agency. These artifacts serve as preliminary evidence that hybrid cognition can generate new conceptual universes-what I refer to as neuroversesthat neither agent could construct independently. This paper expands the theory underlying these observations, situates it within existing literature in cognitive science and systems theory, articulates the mechanisms by which emergent ontologies arise, and outlines the implications for identity, scientific discovery, and cultural evolution. Neuroverse Convergence suggests that the future of knowledge is not merely the accumulation of information but the co-creation of entirely new conceptual structures through distributed intelligence networks.
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Saṃghabhadra on Simultaneity: Absolute Simultaneity and Relative Simultaneity
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Jincheng LI
2026, Philosophy East and West
This article examines Saṃghabhadra's theory of simultaneity. Drawing on his account of time, I argue that his system must be taken to entail two types of simultaneity between events/entities: one grounded in their occurring at the same...
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This article examines Saṃghabhadra's theory of simultaneity. Drawing on his account of time, I argue that his system must be taken to entail two types of simultaneity between events/entities: one grounded in their occurring at the same moment, and another grounded in the impossibility of further distinguishing them as earlier or later. I further contend that the latter type of simultaneity shifts with changes in the reference point, whereas the former does not. Thus, Saṃghabhadra affirms both absolute and relative simultaneity. Finally, I analyse the features of these two types and suggest that in his attempt to balance theoretical analysis with experiential considerations, Saṃghabhadra rejects the everyday notion of a global present while maintaining the idea of a local present. This distinctive stance sets his account apart both from everyday thought of simultaneity and from those shaped by special relativity.
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Change! Bewegung im Kopf.
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Constantin Sander
2026, Change Bewegung im Kopf. Ihr Gehirn wird so, wie Sie es benutzen.
Aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus Biologe und Neurowissenschaften offenbaren ein neues Bild von der inneren Welt des Menschen: Gefühle haben einen ganz entscheidenden Einfluss auf unsere Entscheidungen – auch im Geschäftsleben.Was können wir von...
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Aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus Biologe und Neurowissenschaften offenbaren ein neues Bild von der inneren Welt des Menschen: Gefühle haben einen ganz entscheidenden Einfluss auf unsere Entscheidungen – auch im Geschäftsleben.Was können wir von der Natur fürs Business lernen? Welchen Nutzen haben die Neurowissenschaften für Management, Arbeitseffektivität und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung? Haben wir wirklich keinen freien Willen, wie es einige Neurobiologen behaupten? Wie funktioniert eigentlich Veränderung? Welche Rolle spielen unbewusste Prozesse und Emotionen für unser Handeln? Diesen Fragen geht der Businesscoach und promovierte Biologe Constantin Sander in seinem neuen Buch „Change! - Bewegung im Kopf“ unterhaltsam und verständlich nach. Die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung und deren Auswirkungen auf unser Verständnis von Lernen und Veränderung stellt der Autor im ersten Teil seines Buches vor. Wie die konkrete Umsetzung im beruflichen Alltag funktioniert, zeigt er ausführlich im zweiten Teil. „Ohne unseren Bauch und ohne Emotionen könnten wir gar nicht vernünftig handeln“, so Sander. Mit vielen praxisbezogenen Beispielen und zahlreichen anschaulichen Abbildungen verdeutlicht er, wie es gelingt, eingefahrene Verhaltensweisen zu ändern, effektiver zu kommunizieren und sinnvolle Strategien gegen Stress zu entwickeln. Abschließend zeigt er auf, wie sich Beratung ändern muss, um das Management künftig noch besser zu unterstützen. Der Management-Ratgeber „Change! – Bewegung im Kopf“ will keine Patentrezepte vermitteln, sondern verdeutlichen, wie Veränderungsprozesse hirngerecht gestaltet werden können. Constantin Sander möchte einen Anstoß dazu geben, Management- und Beratungsmethoden zu überdenken und verbessern sowie Neues auszuprobieren.
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Annie Jacobsen’s Phenomena: A Commentary
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Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
2026, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
book Phenomena says it is a "definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena." The Star Gate program (last of several nicknames) is the only extensive U.S. government-sponsored psi program....
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book Phenomena says it is a "definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena." The Star Gate program (last of several nicknames) is the only extensive U.S. government-sponsored psi program. However, there are far too many errors in Jacobsen's work for it to be considered as definitive or even representing the Star Gate program. While there are many books available on the Star Gate program, none of them claim to be the "definitive" work, as most are first-person perspectives of the participants in the program. So why does Jacobsen's work deserve an open critique? The faux story narrated in her work has led to a concerted effort to bring to the reader the many errors in the book.
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Verkörperung Thomas Fuchs Magnus Schlette Christian Tewes
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Christian Tewes
2026, Verkörperung
Der Aufsatz zeichnet das verkörperungstheoretische Paradigma in drei Abschnitten nach, zunächst mit allgemeinem Bezug auf die Ökologie des Organismus (1), dann unter besonderer Beachtung der Konstruktion ökologischer Nischen, ihrer...
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Der Aufsatz zeichnet das verkörperungstheoretische Paradigma in drei Abschnitten nach, zunächst mit allgemeinem Bezug auf die Ökologie des Organismus (1), dann unter besonderer Beachtung der Konstruktion ökologischer Nischen, ihrer kulturellen Vererbung und der Inkorporation neuer Fähigkeiten durch Enkulturation in tradierte Nischen (2). Danach wird skizziert, wie sich im verkörperungstheoretischen Paradigma die Entstehung
von Bedeutung im doppelten Sinn von semantischem wie
evaluativem Gehalt modellieren lässt, so dass die sprachliche Kommunikation zu einem eigenständigen Faktor ökologischer Nischenbildung der menschlichen Lebensform
wird (3). Der Aufsatz schließt mit einem Ausblick auf weiterführende verkörperungstheoretische Forschungsfragen
zum Verhältnis von Gedächtnis und Umwelt, Sprache und
Umwelt sowie Anthropologie und Umwelt (4).
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On Derrida's reading strategy
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Gaël Cabos
2026
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Cyborg Archaeology: A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Human-Technology Ecosystems
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amir abbas khalilpour
2026
This study introduces Cyborg Archaeology, a comprehensive theoretical paradigm that integrates systemic, cognitive, and networked approaches to analyze contemporary human-technology ecosystems. Drawing on Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS),...
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This study introduces Cyborg Archaeology, a comprehensive theoretical paradigm that integrates systemic, cognitive, and networked approaches to analyze contemporary human-technology ecosystems. Drawing on Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), Distributed Cognition, Extended Mind, and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the framework conceptualizes socio-technical systems as distributed cognitive networks where agency, decision-making, and knowledge are co-produced by humans, artifacts, and infrastructural nodes. The paradigm emphasizes the emergence of collective cognition, feedback loops, and network-mediated agency, providing a robust platform for paradigmatic archaeology in post-digital societies.
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Evo-Dualism: A New Mind-Based Wisdom for Natural Philosophy in the 21st Century
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Shaun Johnston
2026
Evo-Dualism is a dual-aspect framework reconciling evolutionary biology with the phenomenology of subjective experience, helping make sense of our dual reality: a physical world of matter and a mental realm of consciousness. Unlike...
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Evo-Dualism is a dual-aspect framework reconciling evolutionary biology with the phenomenology of subjective experience, helping make sense of our dual reality: a physical world of matter and a mental realm of consciousness. Unlike substance dualism or reductive physicalism, evo-dualism views mind and body as co-evolving complementary aspects of living systems. For humans-with bodies and conscious minds-to evolve, evolution must have involved an agent capable of transacting with mind. This paper identifies chromosomes as that agent: they evolved mental capacities first, enabling them to fashion minded creatures like us. Adapted from the script of the seventh summary video in the "Natural Philosophy in the 21st Century" series (published 2025 on YouTube), this document explores mind's role from life's origin through genomic intentionality, human creativity, and cultural values. It critiques Darwinism and physicalism, proposing a mind-based evolutionary mechanism with implications for philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and evolutionary theory. Links to video clips and the full series are provided at the end. This culminates a 30-year inquiry into alternatives to the modern synthesis.
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Narrative Conflicts: A Tri-Modal Computational Analysis of Antagonism in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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Mehmet Can Yavuz
2026, Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
This study introduces a novel computational framework to analyze multi-modal antagonisms—semantic, emotional, and relational—in dramatic literature, specifically focusing on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Employing natural language...
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This study introduces a novel computational framework to analyze multi-modal antagonisms—semantic, emotional, and relational—in dramatic literature, specifically focusing on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Employing natural language processing (NLP) techniques, text embeddings, emotion classifiers, and network-based character analyses, we systematically extract and quantify antagonistic relationships within the play. Semantic antagonisms are identified through hierarchical clustering and dimensionality reduction of character embeddings, revealing rhetorical groupings aligned closely with narrative functions. Emotional antagonisms, captured via emotion distribution profiles and variance analysis, illuminate characters’ affective dynamics and their alignment with dramatic roles. Relational antagonisms are explored through co-occurrence networks, highlighting unexpected centrality of minor characters as critical mediators of conflict. Integrating these modalities with Hegelian dialectics and Nietzschean interpretations, our tri-modal analysis provides fresh insights into ideological tensions, character motivations, and narrative structure. This interdisciplinary approach demonstrates the effectiveness of AI-driven tools in enriching literary criticism opening new avenues for exploring conflict dynamics in canonical texts.
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