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The Consciousness-Reality Integration Theory (CRIT)
Current studies of consciousness present a profound challenge known as the “hard problem of consciousness.” This elusive issue pertains to the nature of subjective experience and the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. Western philosophy and science have traditionally approached this problem by assuming a physicalist worldview, treating consciousness as an emergent property of…
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The Epistemic Contingency of Knowledge, Reason, Logic, and Meaning on an Idealist Metaphysics
This paper leverages the history of epistemology to argue that an accidental worldview is self-defeating, as it precludes the possibility of all that it must epistemically presuppose: knowledge, reason, logic, and meaning.
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A Trinitarian Framework for Core Subjectivity: Awareness, Phenomenality, and Intentionality in Consciousness
This paper delves into the notion of core subjectivity, the fundamental base of mind that one experiences in the pure consciousness state, and examines its interconnected modes—awareness, phenomenality, and intentionality. Leveraging strong phenomenal intentionality theory’s claim that all intentional states are (or arise from) phenomenal states, we propose that the modes of core subjectivity constitute…
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Time Is to Space as Cognition Is to Information
Introduction This paper embarks on an exploration of the nature of time and its relationship to cognition, beginning with an evaluation of the reduction base, the enigmatic ground state of reality that eludes explanation yet possesses the capacity to elucidate the entire spectrum of existence. It unveils the reduction base as “no-thing”, an unbounded wellspring…