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Abstract This article provides a critical analysis of the leading trends in contemporary philosophy of mind—neurophilosophy and enactivism (F. Varela, E. Thompson, A. Noë)—from the standpoint of the Philosophy of Reality and the Basic Method of Philosophy developed by Alexander Zhalnin. It demonstrates that while enactivism overcomes Cartesian dualism and representationalism, it stops at the description of sensorimotor interaction and neural correlations, failing to reach the level of ontological analysis of the mutual transition between the objective and the subjective. The Philosophy of Reality offers the missing categorical apparatus (matter/energy, form/property) and a five-stage methodology of cognition, enabling the grasping of the transformation of existence into essence and vice versa. Using the example of color perception, the limitations of the enactivist approach are demonstrated, alongside the heuristic potential of the Basic Method of Philosophy. Keywords: neurophilosophy, enactivism, Basic Method of Philosophy, Philosophy of Reality, mutual transition, living concept, autopoiesis, neurophenomenology.
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