Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 13, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
The ratio R = E/|O_info| - spectral energy per unit of integrated informational structure - was proposed as a candidate outcome observable of the thermodynamics of consciousness: an energetic cost per nat of integration. We report its complete empirical genealogy across eight pre-registered studies in public datasets (Sleep-EDF, 153 nights, N=76/77; DOSE-I propofol, N=170; 62-channel ketamine,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 10, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
Theories of consciousness face a recurring failure mode: ontological commitments that no measurement can touch. We report the complete architecture and consolidated empirical audit of PIC/SFT (the Principle of Conscious Information / Synergetic Field Theory), a working ontology built to avoid that mode: an axiom (conscious information, IC, as the primary unit), a measurable formal nucleus...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 9, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
Metrics of informational integration derive from distinct estimator families - functions of the correlation-matrix spectrum (Phi_vN, spectral differentiation) and discretized non-parametric decomposition estimators (O_np, redundancy-synergy binding). Distinct families can diverge on the same system (the Gaussian copula is blind to non-Gaussian synergy), so the relation between families is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 9, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
Contemplative traditions of China and India developed detailed cartographies of internal states - the Three Treasures (Jing/Qi/Shen) of Taoist neidan and the Kundalini circuit of tantric yoga - without measurable operational definition. We proposed these cartographies as structural heuristics of an informational nucleus (density matrix rho, velocity field v_IC, integrated differentiation Phi,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
Meditation research has measured isolated physiological channels for decades, but the set of peripheral signs has rarely been treated as a field — a totality whose inter-channel dependency structure is itself the observable. We tested whether a guided meditation session moves the integrated peripheral field, or only the individual signs, in the public WESAD dataset (15 subjects; within-subject...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
The hypothesis that consciousness corresponds to integrated information predicts that measures of integration computed over the whole physiological system co-vary with the level of consciousness. Sleep provides an expert-scored axis from wakefulness through deep non-rapid-eye-movement sleep to rapid-eye-movement sleep. In 153 polysomnographic nights from a public cohort (78 subjects; two...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
Rationale: Increased neural complexity under psychedelics is replicated, but the temporal structure carrying it — and the design choices that decide what a "complexity increase" means — remain contested: window-level reports treat correlated windows as independent; cross-dataset contrasts confound pharmacology with protocol. Objectives: To test, in public EEG datasets with pre-registered...