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Nondual Awareness and Minimal Phenomenal Experience
Zoran Josipovic1, Vladimir Miskovic2
1Department of Psychology, New York University, New York City, NY, United States.
Frontiers in Psychology
|September 25, 2020
Summary
Minimal phenomenal experiences (MPEs) are not consciousness-as-such. Consciousness-as-such is a unique, non-representational awareness, distinct from arousal and phenomenal content models.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy of Mind
- Consciousness Studies
Background:
- Minimal phenomenal experiences (MPEs) involve reduced phenomenal content and arousal.
- MPEs have been proposed as instances of consciousness-as-such.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a new perspective on consciousness-as-such.
- To differentiate consciousness-as-such from MPEs and existing models.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of consciousness-as-such.
- Critique of the two-dimensional model of consciousness (arousal + phenomenal content).
Main Results:
- Consciousness-as-such is fundamentally a unique type of awareness.
- This awareness is non-conceptual, non-propositional, nondual, and non-representational.
- Existing models inadequately capture consciousness-as-such.
Conclusions:
- Consciousness-as-such should be understood as a unique kind of awareness.
- Further research is needed to study consciousness-as-such distinctly.
- This perspective offers a more accurate understanding of consciousness in general.
Keywords:
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