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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,478 Views
17 Pages

Can Computational Intelligence Model Phenomenal Consciousness?

  • Eduardo C. Garrido Merchán and
  • Sara Lumbreras

Consciousness and intelligence are properties that can be misunderstood as necessarily dependent. The term artificial intelligence and the kind of problems it managed to solve in recent years has been shown as an argument to establish that machines e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
15,857 Views
15 Pages

8 December 2021

The doctrine of impermanence can be called the most salient feature of the Buddha’s teaching. The early Buddhist doctrine of impermanence can be understood in four different but interrelated contexts: Buddha’s empiricism, the notion of co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,691 Views
24 Pages

25 March 2025

Theories of consciousness grounded in neuroscience must explain the phenomenal binding problem, e.g., how micro-units of information are combined to create the macro-scale conscious experience common to human phenomenology. An example is how single &...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,851 Views
9 Pages

13 September 2023

It has been shown that three-dimensional self-assembled multicellular structures derived from human pluripotent stem cells show electrical activity similar to EEG. More recently, neurons were successfully embedded in digital game worlds. The biologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,792 Views
32 Pages

In this work, we demonstrated unique and relevant visual properties imparted by contrast polarity in perceptual organization and in eliciting amodal completion, which is the vivid completion of a single continuous object of the visible parts of an oc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,172 Views
22 Pages

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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,352 Views
19 Pages

13 February 2022

Time is a key element of consciousness as it includes multiple timescales from shorter to longer ones. This is reflected in our experience of various short-term phenomenal contents at discrete points in time as part of an ongoing, more continuous, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
492 Views
24 Pages

9 September 2025

The contribution of this paper lies in its extension of the phenomenological insights of Martin Buber and Jean-Luc Marion—in particular, Buber’s philosophy of dialogue and the I–thou relation, and Marion’s articulation of satu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,848 Views
13 Pages

24 November 2020

The islandic geopolitical situation of South Korea led the road-centered development and the road freight share reached 97% in 2015. Trans-Korean Railway, thus, is the key to low carbon development of South Korea. With the Trans-Korean Railway, the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,496 Views
28 Pages

11 September 2014

This paper aims to introduce a developed reading of Roederer’s interpretation of pragmatic information as a good candidate for a Unifying Information Concept required for an as-yet-unavailable Science of Information. According to pragmatic informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,996 Views
20 Pages

Exploring the Computational Explanatory Gap

  • James A. Reggia,
  • Di-Wei Huang and
  • Garrett Katz

While substantial progress has been made in the field known as artificial consciousness, at the present time there is no generally accepted phenomenally conscious machine, nor even a clear route to how one might be produced should we decide to try. H...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,397 Views
15 Pages

Phenomenal Bombardment of Antibiotic in Poultry: Contemplating the Environmental Repercussions

  • Muthu Manikandan,
  • Sechul Chun,
  • Zakayo Kazibwe,
  • Judy Gopal,
  • Udai Bhan Singh and
  • Jae-Wook Oh

Antibiotics have constantly been added at an unprecedented rate in order to enhance poultry meat production. Such antibiotics impose a negative impact on human health directly through meat and egg consumption. On the other hand, they also affect huma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
722 Views
29 Pages

Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAPs) are intrinsically paradoxical; these species use a pathway commonly found in oxygen-deprived environments called anoxygenic photosynthesis, as a supplementary energy source to their obligately aerobic respiration...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,973 Views
57 Pages

Recent Phenomenal and Investigational Subsurface Landslide Monitoring Techniques: A Mixed Review

  • Kyrillos M. P. Ebrahim,
  • Sherif M. M. H. Gomaa,
  • Tarek Zayed and
  • Ghasan Alfalah

18 January 2024

Landslides are a common and challenging geohazard that may be caused by earthquakes, rainfall, or manmade activity. Various monitoring strategies are used in order to safeguard populations at risk from landslides. This task frequently depends on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,016 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2024

Background: Recent evidence in systems neuroscience suggests that lighting conditions affect the whole chain of brain processing, from retina to high-level cortical networks, for perceptual and cognitive function. Here, visual adaptation levels to th...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,185 Views
9 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Applications for Thoracic Surgeons: “The Phenomenal Cosmic Powers of the Magic Lamp”

  • Giacomo Cusumano,
  • Stefano D’Arrigo,
  • Alberto Terminella and
  • Filippo Lococo

27 June 2024

In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force in various sectors, including medicine. This article explores the potential of AI, which is akin to the magical genie of Aladdin’s lamp, particularly within...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,701 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2023

TiO2 nanotubes are a prominent type of TiO2-based nanostructure compared to nanorod arrays. A promising way to improve photocatalytic performance is modifying TiO2 nanotubes with metals, either on the surface or inside the tubes. There is a substanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,677 Views
16 Pages

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O Exhibits Phenomenal Genetic Lineage Diversity in India during 2018–2022

  • Shyam Singh Dahiya,
  • Saravanan Subramaniam,
  • Jajati Keshari Mohapatra,
  • Manoranjan Rout,
  • Jitendra Kumar Biswal,
  • Priyabrata Giri,
  • Vinayak Nayak and
  • Rabindra Prasad Singh

10 July 2023

In India, widespread foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks occurred in 2021. The objective of this study was to identify genetic lineages and evaluate the antigenic relationships of FMD virus (FMDV) isolates gathered from outbreaks reported between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,069 Views
14 Pages

30 April 2021

Deep moral disagreements exist between Christians and non-Christians. I argue that Christians should resist the temptation to pin all such disagreements on the irrationality of their disputants. To this end, I develop an epistemological framework on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,886 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2024

The fortified hilltop settlement of Monkodonja, located near Rovinj on the west coast of Istria, Croatia, provides insight into Bronze Age occupation and conflict in the Adriatic region. Established around 2000 BC, as evidenced by a series of C14 dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,776 Views
12 Pages

14 May 2018

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are known as a type of electric-driven artificial muscle that have shown promising potential in the field of soft robotics. However, the inherent viscoelastic nonlinearity makes the modeling and control of DEAs c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,312 Views
20 Pages

Solitary Wave Solutions of the Generalized Rosenau-KdV-RLW Equation

  • Zakieh Avazzadeh,
  • Omid Nikan and
  • José A. Tenreiro Machado

17 September 2020

This paper investigates the solitary wave solutions of the generalized Rosenau–Korteweg-de Vries-regularized-long wave equation. This model is obtained by coupling the Rosenau–Korteweg-de Vries and Rosenau-regularized-long wave equations....

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,942 Views
32 Pages

In this conceptual review, we explore how alterations in the configuration and expression of the three core aspects of experiential Selfhood—‘Self,’ ‘Me’, and ‘I’—both reflect and shape an individual&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,362 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2024

This essay examines Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenal model of the Trinity expounded in his recent book D’Ailleurs, la révélation (2020) and attempts to give an initial assessment from a theological perspective. Since Marion&rsqu...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,171 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2022

Conversation is a major site for our use of language. Each conversation elicits a distinct subjective experience: a specific and dynamic phenomenal field, and it is this field that controls our communicative actions. We cannot hope to understand the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
18,645 Views
23 Pages

Illusion and Illusoriness of Color and Coloration

  • Baingio Pinna,
  • Daniele Porcheddu and
  • Katia Deiana

30 January 2018

In this work, through a phenomenological analysis, we studied the perception of the chromatic illusion and illusoriness. The necessary condition for an illusion to occur is the discovery of a mismatch/disagreement between the geometrical/physical dom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,126 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2021

The potential relationship between external and internal spaces in the architectural environment of the post-pandemic era is emerging as an essential issue. Since the early 20th century, the issue of transparency inside and outside architecture has b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,539 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2019

In the thirteenth century, following Neoplatonic and Patristic trends, art and aesthetic experience were still treated as symbolic, as “vestiges” or “echoes” of the divine that lead us to it. However, in the early fourteenth c...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,557 Views
2 Pages

Special Issue: NMR-Based Metabolomics

  • Miriam Pérez-Trujillo and
  • Toby J. Athersuch

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy remains one of the core analytical platforms for metabolomics, providing complementary chemical information to others, such as mass spectrometry, and offering particular advantages in some areas of resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
18,088 Views
44 Pages

27 November 2019

There must be a reason why an experience feels the way it does. A good place to begin addressing this question is spatial experience, because it may be more penetrable by introspection than other qualities of consciousness such as color or pain. More...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,042 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2018

While metaphors for the human mind have been intensively discussed across multiple disciplines, there remains a gap on how Buddhism deals with the mind metaphorically. This study explores how Mahāyāna Buddhist discourse resorts to embodied and discur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
222 Citations
41,712 Views
29 Pages

17 April 2012

It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective phenomenal experiences provide the “energy” for the developmental construction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,864 Views
13 Pages

6 August 2019

This article considers “Kubla Khan” and the the Arab dream section from the fifth book The Prelude as precursors to the recently theorized concept of saturated phenomenality. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth insist on the limitedness of thei...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,355 Views
13 Pages

What kind of images are data visualizations? Are they mere abstract transformations of numerical data? Should they reduce the phenomenal world into a set of pre-codified shapes? Or can they represent natural phenomena through figurative strategies? W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,089 Views
11 Pages

12 December 2019

This article will summarize and interpret archaeological data that may be used to illuminate the religion of ancient Israel, ca. 1200–600 BCE, while using a phenomenal approach. The resultant portrait will be compared with one drawn from the te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,613 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2024

This study presents the development and evaluation of a spin test rig for high-speed rotating components. The innovation of this study is using a discrete model to determine dynamic positioning during the preliminary design phase based on vibration c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,533 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2014

This paper offers a comparative analysis of the nature of consciousness correlating the insights of the 11th century Śaiva philosopher Abhinavagupta with the work of some contemporary philosophers of consciousness. Ultimately these comparisons especi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
15,987 Views
11 Pages

Barriers to Innovation in Water Treatment

  • Farah Ahmed,
  • Daniel Johnson,
  • Raed Hashaikeh and
  • Nidal Hilal

16 February 2023

While phenomenal strides are being made on the technological front, the water industry lags behind other sectors in the adoption of innovative techniques. Contributing factors include long lifetimes and costs of previous water infrastructure, risk av...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,572 Views
24 Pages

1 December 2017

Nucleobase interactions play a fundamental role in biological functions, including transcription and translation. Natural nucleic acids like DNA are also widely implemented in material realm such as DNA guided self-assembly of nanomaterials. Inspired...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,469 Views
15 Pages

The sports betting industry has been growing at a phenomenal rate and has many similarities to the financial market in that a payout is made contingent on an outcome of an event. Despite this, there has been little to no mathematical focus on the pot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,492 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2021

This paper deals with a research hypothesis tying the legacy of German idealism to the first foundation of Michel Henry’s “phenomenology of life”. Based on a series of archive documents, the paper reconstitutes the hermeneutical horizon in contrast w...

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