Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 22, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
Neuroscience Theory of Consciousness (NTC): A Structural Solution to the Hard Problem of ConsciousnessThe Hard Problem of Consciousness asks why physical or neural processes are accompanied by subjective experience at all — why there is something it is like to be a brain, rather than all biological information processing occurring in the dark, without felt quality. No existing theory has...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 17, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised a foundational question in contemporary cognitive science: can an artificial information-processing system become genuinely conscious? The Illusion of Conscious AI (ICAI) Framework challenges the inference that increasingly sophisticated information processing, intelligence, language generation, self-modeling, behavioural competence,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” may not be a problem of consciousness at all. This work argues that the famous explanatory gap identified by David Chalmers is better understood as a limitation in the way neuroscience and contemporary consciousness theories attempt to explain first-person phenomenal experience through third-person physical and neural descriptions. The Consciousness Theory of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
CTN reframes the Hard Problem of Consciousness as a structural limitation of neuroscience's methodology rather than an inherent mystery of consciousness itself. It proposes that first-person consciousness should function as a co-primary epistemic resource alongside third-person neural measurement — not merely as an output to be explained. Central theoretical constructs include the Intrinsic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 7, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The Neuroscience Theory of Consciousness (NTC) presents a biologically grounded, structurally rigorous, and constitutionally complete account of conscious experience that resolves the Hard Problem of Consciousness without invoking non-physical primitives or metaphysical dualism. The central argument is that the Hard Problem, as standardly formulated, is not a gap in nature but a conceptual...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 3, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The Consciousness Intelligence Awareness (CIA) Framework is a unified theoretical model that proposes a structural resolution to the hard problem of consciousness by distinguishing three ontologically distinct yet functionally integrated primitives: Consciousness (C), Intelligence (I), and Awareness (A). Unlike conventional approaches that treat the mind as a single phenomenon, the CIA...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 3, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The hard problem of consciousness remains one of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the science and philosophy of mind: why do physical and computational processes give rise to subjective experience? This paper presents the Consciousness Intelligence Awareness (CIA) Framework, introducing consciousness as a non-transformational detecting substrate whose sole function is to detect...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 19, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
Here is the Abstract from your uploaded paper, ready to copy and paste into the Zenodo Description field: AbstractThis paper presents Neuroscience of Natural Cognitive Order: Brain Optimisation (The CIA Theoretical Framework), a theoretical neuroscience framework proposing that the human central nervous system possesses an evolved, energy-efficient baseline operating regime termed Natural...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 4, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
To present the Consciousness Intelligence Awareness (CIA) Framework's theoretical solution to the hard problem of consciousness