Nondual Awareness and Minimal Phenomenal Experience

Copyright © 2020 Josipovic and Miskovic..

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. It has also been proposed that MPEs are cases of consciousness-as-such. Here, we present a different perspective, that consciousness-as-such is first and foremost a type of awareness, that is, non-conceptual, non-propositional, and nondual, in other words, non-representational. This awareness is a unique kind and cannot be adequately specified by the two-dimensional model of consciousness as the arousal level plus the phenomenal content or by their mental representations. Thus, we suggest that to understand consciousness-as-such, and by extension consciousness in general, more accurately, we need to research it as a unique kind.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in psychology - 11(2020) vom: 24., Seite 2087

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Josipovic, Zoran [VerfasserIn]
Miskovic, Vladimir [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Consciousness
Consciousness-as-such
Journal Article
Lucid NREM sleep
Meditation
Minimal phenomenal experience
Nondual awareness
Review

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Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02087

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315444150