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Nondual Awareness and Minimal Phenomenal Experience [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Minimal phenomenal experiences (MPEs) have recently gained attention in the fields of neuroscience and philosophy of mind. They can be thought of as episodes of greatly reduced or even absent phenomenal content together with a reduced level of arousal ...
Zoran Josipovic, Vladimir Miskovic
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The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of "pure awareness" experiences in meditators. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectiveTo develop a fine-grained phenomenological analysis of "pure awareness" experiences in meditators.MethodsAn online survey in five language versions (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian) collected data from January to March 2020. A total of
Alex Gamma, Thomas Metzinger
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Correction: The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators [PDF]

PLoS ONE
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253694.].
Alex Gamma, Thomas Metzinger
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The Phenomenology of “Pure” Consciousness as Reported by an Experienced Meditator of the Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu Tradition. Analysis of Interview Content Concerning Different Meditative States

Philosophies, 2021
A philosopher and a cognitive neuroscientist conversed with Buddhist lama Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt (TLB) about the unresolved phenomenological concerns and logical questions surrounding “pure” consciousness or minimal phenomenal experience (MPE), a ...
Cyril Costines, Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt, Marc Wittmann   +2 more
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Minimal self-consciousness and the flying man argument

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
The concept of minimal self-consciousness or “minimal self” is equivalent to a very basic form of first-person, pre-reflective self-awareness, which includes bodily self-awareness, and is related to phenomenal experience (qualia) and sentience.
Shaun Gallagher, Shaun Gallagher
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The Conscious Nematode: Exploring Hallmarks of Minimal Phenomenal Consciousness in Caenorhabditis Elegans

International Journal of Psychological Research, 2023
While subcellular components of cognition and affectivity that involve the interaction between experience, environment, and physiology —such as learning, trauma, or emotion— are being identified, the physical mechanisms of phenomenal consciousness ...
Diego Becerra, Andrea Calixto, Patricio Orio   +2 more
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Consciousness Without Content: A Look at Evidence and Prospects

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Many traditions in the East have proposed that consciousness without content is possible and could be achieved with mental training. However, it is not clear whether such a state is possible given that intentionality is a critical property of mentality ...
Narayanan Srinivasan, Narayanan Srinivasan   +1 more
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‘Seeing the Dark’: Grounding Phenomenal Transparency and Opacity in Precision Estimation for Active Inference

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
One of the central claims of the Self-model Theory of Subjectivity is that the experience of being someone – even in a minimal form – arises through a transparent phenomenal self-model, which itself can in principle be reduced to brain processes.
Jakub Limanowski, Karl Friston
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Content-Free Awareness: EEG-fcMRI Correlates of Consciousness as Such in an Expert Meditator

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
The minimal neural correlate of the conscious state, regardless of the neural activity correlated with the ever-changing contents of experience, has still not been identified. Different attempts have been made, mainly by comparing the normal waking state
Ulf Winter, Pierre LeVan, Pierre LeVan, Tilmann L. Borghardt, Burak Akin, Burak Akin, Marc Wittmann, Yeshe Leyens, Stefan Schmidt   +8 more
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Grounding, Analysis, and Russellian Monism [PDF]

, 2019
Few these days dispute that the knowledge argument demonstrates an epistemic gap between the physical facts and the facts about experience. It is much more contentious whether that epistemic gap can be used to demonstrate a metaphysical gap of a kind ...
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