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Nondual Awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- I introduce arguments toward a non-representational reflexivity theory of consciousness-as-such to address one of the key issues in the science of consciousness today: lack of understanding of the nature of consciousness itself. An expanded map of consciousness is outlined, which includes, in addition to the well-known contents of awareness and levels of arousal, the indeterminate substrate and consciousness-as-such or nondual awareness. The central idea presented is that consciousness-as-such is a non-conceptual nondual awareness, whose essential property is non-representational reflexivity. This property makes consciousness-as-such phenomenologically, cognitively and neurobiologically a unique kind, different from and irreducible to any contents, functions and states, including the indeterminate substrate. Our previous hypothesis on the precuneus network for nondual awareness is further discussed in relation to non-representational reflexivity, and in the light of other hypotheses on the neural correlates of consciousness-as-such.
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- bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology
MindRxiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Cognitive Psychology
Consciousness
MindRxiv|Life Sciences
Negotiating
Brain
MindRxiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Awareness
MindRxiv|Life Sciences|Neuroscience and Neurobiology
MindRxiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Cognitive Psychology
MindRxiv|Life Sciences|Neuroscience and Neurobiology|Cognitive Neuroscience
bepress|Life Sciences|Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Cognition
bepress|Life Sciences
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Humans
bepress|Life Sciences|Neuroscience and Neurobiology|Cognitive Neuroscience
Subjects
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- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a394f8bbf4c4e90871bccdcb3e4058c3