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Thinking with the Eyes, Seeing with the Heart. About the Sight of Aliens

Oleg V. Yermakov

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 23, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20358527 via OpenAlex

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Human perception is split between two distinct modes of seeing: external sight (the eyes) and internal, existential sight (the heart), with the mind acting as a separating layer. This fragmentation defines the human condition. In contrast, non-human or cosmic beings experience an integrated form of perception where vision and cognition form a single, direct relation to reality. The model draws on comparative mythology, Homeric, Biblical, and Platonic motifs, and contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The work is a speculative metaphysical framework, not an empirically testable theory.

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Keywords Metaphysics Perception Cognition Mediation Sight
Key finding Human perception is fragmented into ocular and cardiac modes separated by the mind, while an integrated, direct perception is proposed for non-human or cosmic beings.

Abstract

This work proposes a speculative metaphysical model of vision and cognition based on a dual structure of anthropic perception: the separation of ocular (external) and cardiac (internal) modes of seeing in the human condition, and their presumed unity in non-human or “cosmic” anthropic beings. The study develops a philosophical anthropology of vision in which perception is not reduced to sensory processing, but understood as an ontological act that determines the structure of reality itself. The human condition is interpreted as a split between two epistemic organs — the eyes and the heart — mediated and fragmented by cognitive mediation (“mind” as a separating layer). In contrast, an integrated model of perception is proposed, in which vision and cognition form a single process of direct world-relation. The text situates this distinction within comparative mythology, classical philosophy (Homeric, Biblical, and Platonic motifs), and contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The work belongs to the domain of speculative philosophy of mind, metaphysical anthropology, and mythopoetic epistemology, and is intended as a conceptual framework rather than an empirically testable theory. _____________________________________________ Работа предлагает спекулятивную метафизическую модель зрения и сознания, основанную на представлении о двух режимах антропного восприятия: разделённом (глаз и сердце как разные когнитивные структуры) и интегральном (их единстве в постчеловеческих или «космических» формах субъективности). Зрение трактуется не как физиологическая функция, а как онтологический акт, конституирующий способ бытия мира для субъекта. Человеческое восприятие описывается как расщеплённое когнитивной инстанцией («умом»), которая разъединяет сенсорное и экзистенциальное видение. В противоположность этому вводится модель целостного восприятия, в которой зрение и мышление образуют единый процесс непосредственного отношения к реальности. Анализ опирается на мифологические, библейские и античные источники, а также на философию сознания. Работа относится к области спекулятивной философии сознания, метафизической антропологии и мифопоэтической эпистемологии и не претендует на эмпирическую проверяемость.

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