Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 17, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Before a Marker Becomes a Mechanism develops an adversarial synthetic falsification framework for evaluating dynamical markers in consciousness research before they are granted strong mechanistic interpretation. The study emerged from the progressive failure of its own candidate mechanism. An initial three-step causal-closure metric failed to capture longer directed loops. A generalized...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 15, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This methodological perspective addresses a recurring inferential problem in the study of artificial intelligence and human consciousness: observable manifestations are often treated as sufficient evidence of deeper latent properties. Fluent self-description may be interpreted as subjectivity, repeated behavior as an internal commitment, stable output as intrinsic direction, cognitive access as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This theoretical research note presents a minimal public formulation of the Projected Presence Framework. The paper does not claim to solve the hard problem of consciousness, nor does it present new empirical data. Instead, it consolidates the framework into a criticizable and test-ready conceptual architecture for future consciousness research. The central claim is that consciousness is not...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This conceptual paper proposes a methodological reframing of the hard problem of consciousness through the notion of projected presence. Building on the Projected Stabilization Thesis, it argues that first-person immediacy should not be granted automatic foundational authority. Consciousness is not treated as an inner observer, a private theater, or an illusion, but as the biologically...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, a conceptual and methodological framework for reinterpreting consciousness as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. Rather than treating consciousness as an inner foundation, metaphysical origin, or detached observer, the paper argues that consciousness may be understood as an access-field in which bodily...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 21, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This article develops a de-substantialized reconstruction of the concept of soul after the Organismic Projection Framework (OPF). It begins from the premise that consciousness should not be understood as a separable substance inhabiting an organism, but as a bounded projection regime sustained by organismic conditions. If this is accepted, then the inherited concept of the soul can no longer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This article develops the Organismic Projection Framework (OPF) as a boundary framework for philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, cognitive science, and debates on artificial consciousness. OPF begins from a conceptual reversal: the human being should not be understood as consciousness inhabiting an organism, but as an organism that, under physiological conditions, sustains a bounded...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 18, 2026
Karel Hrubec
This preprint introduces the Organismic Projection Thesis (OPT), a conceptual framework in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The central claim is that the human subject should not be understood as consciousness inhabiting an organism, but as an organism that, under physiological conditions, generates a bounded conscious projection of world, self, and duration. The paper does not aim to...