This paper explores the speculations of absolute reality projected in Kena Upanishad and their reflections philosophy Schopenhauer. His proclamations Will remain as metamorphosis reality, Brahman, postulated Upanishad. For Schopenhauer, every phenomenal manifestation is objectification Will. The also states similar nature reality. Likewise, both Schopenhauer identify individual with entire cosm...

As far as an adequate understanding of phenomenal consciousness is concerned, representationalist theories of mind which are modelled on the information processing paradigm, are, as much as corresponding neurobiological or functionalist theories, confronted with a series of arguments based on inverted or absent qualia considerations. These considerations display the following pattern: assuming ...

Before one can even begin to model consciousness and what exactly it means that it is a subjective phenomenon one needs a theory about what a first-person perspective really is. This theory has to be conceptually convincing, empirically plausible and, most of all, open to new developments. The chosen conceptual framework must be able to accommodate scientific progress. Its basic assumptions hav...

Bill Fish’s book Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion is a rich, sweeping, and radical development of naı̈ve realism. At the core of his view is the idea that in perception we are acquainted with our environment and that in virtue of being so acquainted our experience has phenomenal character. There are many radical ideas in the book, but perhaps the most radical is the idea that when we hall...

This essay is a sustained attempt to bring new light to some of the perennial problems in philosophy of mind surrounding phenomenal consciousness and introspection through developing an account of sensory and phenomenal concepts. Building on the information-theoretic framework of Dretske (1981), we present an informational psychosemantics as it applies to what we call sensory concepts, concepts...