In order to answer this question, we will first remove the term consciousness from our vocabulary. From now on, this term no longer exists for us. Let’s say goodbye to him, after all, he has annoyed us to the point of blood for two and a half thousand years…

When we talk about the I, the Self, or the Consciousness, we tend to personalize, often even in figurative form. We then imagine an entity in the brain, at least certain sections of the brain, that represent these terms. We do this because we are used to thinking objectively. And…

Embodiment with the other three E’s (extended mind, embeddedness, enactivism), is a trend that once spilled over to us in Europe from overseas and which is justified in this country with the philosophical tradition of phenomenology.Phenomenologists …

If we assume that our sensations arise from the multidimensional entanglement of neuronal clusters and served in the course of evolutionary development to ensure adaptation to the environment, e.g. by avoidance behavior protecting against danger, the question arises as to who feels. If we don’t want to assume a homunculus…

Complexity, life, AI are topics that pose a challenge to our thinking. Is our classical logic sufficient for this, or do we need a new logic? Our classical logic is not a transcendent principle, but results from the fact that we move in a four-dimensional reality in which we perceive…

The placebo effect is obviously the result of mental influence (in the transitive sense). There are now countless empirical studies on the subject, but there is almost no theory of how it works, and certainly not a consistent one. I am not arguing here on an empirical or micro level…

Determinism is relative and dependent on the perspective of the observer. If we take the space-time window of the universe, the deterministic event there is the Big Bang. This event produces a single trajectory and we can say — according to our current knowledge — that this event will one…

Language guides understanding, as we know since Wittgenstein. John Locke already said that “language is an instrument of knowledge.” Wittgenstein’s argumentation can be summarized as follows: Language influences thinking. The language we use shapes the way we think about the world. Thinking is linguistically structured. Our thoughts are organized in…

Materialism is the view that the entire universe is made up of matter. The opposite position is idealism, for which the mind is primary. There are countless variations of both, and in between there are two concepts that appear from time to time in different forms. One is the philosophy…