Panpsychism

Nagasawa, Yujin; Wager, Khai

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“…It is certainly not more reasonable to take consciousness to be a fundamental, non-structural feature of reality. So far there have been no theoretical gains, measured by parsimony considerations in any case, derived from the recently passed vogue of neo-dualisms, nor from the current surprising (but also surely ephemeral) vogue of panpsychism and related views in analytical philosophy of mind (see, e.g., Brüntrup and Jaskolla, 2016).…”

Section: The “Hard Problem” Representationalism and Phenomenal Selfmentioning

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The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood

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We summarize our recently introduced Projective Consciousness Model (PCM) (Rudrauf et al., 2017) and relate it to outstanding conceptual issues in the theory of consciousness. The PCM combines a projective geometrical model of the perspectival phenomenological structure of the field of consciousness with a variational Free Energy minimization model of active inference, yielding an account of the cybernetic function of consciousness, viz., the modulation of the field’s cognitive and affective dynamics for the effective control of embodied agents. The geometrical and active inference components are linked via the concept of projective transformation, which is crucial to understanding how conscious organisms integrate perception, emotion, memory, reasoning, and perspectival imagination in order to control behavior, enhance resilience, and optimize preference satisfaction. The PCM makes substantive empirical predictions and fits well into a (neuro)computationalist framework. It also helps us to account for aspects of subjective character that are sometimes ignored or conflated: pre-reflective self-consciousness, the first-person point of view, the sense of minenness or ownership, and social self-consciousness. We argue that the PCM, though still in development, offers us the most complete theory to date of what Thomas Metzinger has called “phenomenal selfhood.”

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“…One can envision that the development of such a philosophy may have had parallels to contemporary debates in consciousness studies around the “hard problem of consciousness” ( Chalmers, 1995 ), i.e, how does the qualitative or experiential aspect of consciousness relate to something material like the brain. Indeed, one of solutions offered for resolving the hard problem is through panpsychic or cosmopsychic theories of consciousness ( Brüntrup and Jaskolla, 2017 ; Goff et al, 2021 ), paralleling Yogic and Vedantic notions of consciousness ( Vaidya and Bilimoria, 2015 ).…”

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Reducing and deducing the structures of consciousness through meditation

Katyal

2022

Front. Psychol.

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According to many first-person accounts, consciousness comprises a subject-object structure involving a mental action or attitude starting from the “subjective pole” upon an object of experience. In recent years, many paradigms have been developed to manipulate and empirically investigate the object of consciousness. However, well-controlled investigation of subjective aspects of consciousness has been more challenging. One way, subjective aspects of consciousness are proposed to be studied is using meditation states that alter its subject-object structure. Most work to study consciousness in this way has been done using Buddhist meditation traditions and techniques. There is another meditation tradition that has been around for at least as long as early Buddhist traditions (if not longer) with the central goal of developing a fine-grained first-person understanding of consciousness and its constituents by its manipulation through meditation, namely the Tantric tradition of Yoga. However, due to the heavy reliance of Yogic traditions on the ancient Indian Samkhya philosophical system, their insights about consciousness have been more challenging to translate into contemporary research. Where such translation has been attempted, they have lacked accompanying phenomenological description of the procedures undertaken for making the precise subject-object manipulations as postulated. In this paper, I address these issues by first detailing how Tantric Yoga philosophy can be effectively translated as a systematic phenomenological account of consciousness spanning the entirety of the subject-object space divided into four “structures of consciousness” from subject to object. This follows from the work of the 20th century polymath and founder of the Tantric Yoga school of Ananda Marga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, who expounded on the “cognitivization” of Samkhya philosophy. I then detail stepwise meditation procedures that make theoretical knowledge of these structures of consciousness a practical reality to a Tantric Yoga meditator in the first-person. This is achieved by entering meditative states through stepwise experiential reduction of the structures of consciousness from object to subject, as part of their meditative goal of “self-realization.” I end by briefly discussing the overlap of these putative meditation states with proposed states from other meditation traditions, and how these states could help advance an empirical study of consciousness.

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Physicalist Panpsychism

Strawson

2017

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

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Panpsychism

Cited by 72 publications

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The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood

The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood

Reducing and deducing the structures of consciousness through meditation

Physicalist Panpsychism

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