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A phantom body as bodily self-consciousness

Przemysław Nowakowski Translation: Paweł Gładziejewski According to Peter Halligan, [?] it is important to consider that the experience of our body is largely the product of a continuously updated ?phantom? generated by the brain. (Halligan 2002, 266). Next, he adds: … Continue reading

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The Emulating Interview? with Rick Grush

Przemyslaw Nowakowski Full text [PDF]

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Neurophenomenology: an invitation to discussion

Paweł Gładziejewski No more than a few years ago could open an article concerning neurophenomenology with a statement describing recent rediscovery of the problem of consciousness by the cognitive sciences and pointing to the fact that right now, explaining conscious … Continue reading

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Lapidarium

Anna Karczmarczyk Full text [PDF]

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Controlled hallucination

Przemyslaw Nowakowski Translation: Anna Karczmarczyk Focusing on the emulation and it?s derivatives, I would like to introduce You the profile of the American philosopher and cognitivist Rick Gush in the instant version. It?s going to be the introduction to the … Continue reading

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The Spontaneity of Consciousness

Robert Hanna and Evan Thompson 2003. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29. It is now conventional wisdom that conscious experience ? or in Nagel?s canonical characterization, ?what it is like to be? for an organism ? is what makes the mind-body … Continue reading

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Redrawing the Map and Resetting the Time

Shaun Gallagher and Francisco J. Varela 2003. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 29. Published online in The Reach of Reflection: The Future of Phenomenology. Eds. Steven Crowell, Lester Embree and Samuel J. Julian. Electronpress. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~gallaghr/G&V01.pdf We argue that phenomenology … Continue reading

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Neurophenomenology: a methodological remedy for the hard problem

Francisco Varela 1996. Journal of Consciousness Studies 3. This paper responds to the issues raised by D. Chalmers by offering a research direction which is quite radical because of the way in which methodological principles are linked to scientific studies of … Continue reading

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Neurophenomenological Triptych

Witold Wachowski Translation: Anna Karczmarczyk Full text [PDF]

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Why Vanguard

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Project Avant was originally initiated by students, yet it is currently realized with the help of both PhD students and young academics. This feature of the project (one may call it ?the freshness?) is an especially … Continue reading

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