Introduction Original Human Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 8, 2026 Mart Wijn
Berggruen prize essay 2025 regarding Natural HUman Consciousness based on first person experience.
Mart Wijn
7 papers in the library · publishing 2026
Papers
The Default State as Neurological Shield
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 31, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract Alzheimer's disease does not destroy all memory equally. It erodes semantic memory — facts, categories, procedures, acquired knowledge — long before it reaches episodic memory: the direct, sensorially rich, emotionally embodied experiences a person has personally lived. This differential degradation pattern is well established in clinical neuroscience. What has not been adequately...
Consciousness during Organ Harvesting
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 16, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract Current medical and ethical standards governing organ harvesting under anesthesia rest on an assumption that has never been formally tested: that the absence of behavioral response and narrative consciousness constitutes the absence of all consciousness. This paper argues that this assumption is both scientifically unexamined and potentially incorrect. Drawing on a documented model of...
The Uncalibrated Self
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 30, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract This paper presents one fundamental thesis: Western civilization has unintentionally, step by step, moved in a direction that takes it ever further from what consciousness actually is. Not through ill intent, but through an accumulation of understandable assumptions, each building on the previous. This paper identifies the pattern, names the assumptions, and invites researchers to...
Consciousness Misdirected
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 30, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract This paper presents one fundamental thesis: Western civilization has unintentionally, step by step, moved in a direction that takes it ever further from what consciousness actually is. Not through ill intent, but through an accumulation of understandable assumptions, each building on the previous. This paper identifies the pattern, names the assumptions, and invites researchers to...
Consciousness the complete picture
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 25, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract Scientific research into consciousness has produced remarkable results across multiple disciplines over the past decades. Quantum physics, neuroscience, developmental psychology, clinical research on anesthesia, near-death experiences, and psychedelics — each field delivers a fragment of the picture. But each fragment is observed from a position. And every position has blind spots....
Hemispheric reception model
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 9, 2026 Mart Wijn
Abstract This paper proposes a theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the relationship between the brain and conscious experience. Rather than viewing the brain as the generator of consciousness, we advance the hypothesis that it functions primarily as a translator—converting raw sensory and experiential data into narratively structured, culturally contextualized conscious experience....