Reyhan Karatas

Subjective Experience as a Meaning-Closing Interface Evolutionary Pressure, Speed Optimization, and the Role of the Other

Subjective experience is often treated either as a qualitative byproduct of neural processing or as a phenomenon primarily shaped by language and narrative. Such approaches tend to obscure its functional role within adaptive systems. This paper proposes a reframing of subjective...

Time as an Interface of Consciousness: Temporal Labeling, Synchronization, and Finitude Temporal Labeling and Conscious Experience: From Time Compression to Déjà Vu

Subjective time is not experienced as a uniform or stable quantity. Moments of threat, uncertainty, or novelty are often reported as temporally expanded, whereas routine and safe contexts are experienced as compressed or rapidly passing. In addition, phenomena such as déjà vu rev...