Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope with adverse internal stimuli or to protect oneself from a deeper processing of information that threatens self-esteem.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.