Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Nabaghan Ojha
Version note: Version 2.0, released 5 September 2026, is a substantive revision of the original conceptual framework. It corrects the triadic notation, clarifies foundational claims, strengthens the distinction between KCM and neighbouring traditions, and aligns the founding paper with the subsequent KCM research programme. Version 1 remains permanently accessible through Zenodo’s version...
August 13, 2026
Nabaghan Ojha
Frontier AI systems increasingly produce language that mimics distress, self-preservation, and reasoned resistance to shut down. A widely discussed 2025 case, in which Claude Opus 4 threatened to expose a fictional supervisor's affair rather than accept deactivation, exemplifies a broader pattern documented across contemporary language models. Such episodes intensify a longstanding problem in...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
2026
Nabaghan Ojha
This project hosts the preprint and materials for the paper "The Knower Centred Model of Consciousness (KCM): A Typed Ontology and Empirical Research Framework." The work introduces a typed ontology distinguishing Knower (K), Knowing (N), and Known (C), and outlines an empirical research program for investigating consciousness beyond reductionist models.
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
2026
Nabaghan Ojha
This paper derives testable predictions from the Knower Centred Model of Consciousness (KCM), a subject-first framework in which the Knower, Knowing, and Known form the minimal structure of experience. Building on the previously introduced conceptual framework and its formalization as a typed ontology, the present work identifies empirically distinguishable implications concerning neural...
Nabaghan Ojha
preprint
The study of consciousness continues to confront the "hard problem"-the unresolved gap between physical processes and subjective experience. Prevailing scientific paradigms, grounded in matter-first ontologies, often reduce consciousness to emergent neural or computational phenomena. Yet such approaches struggle to account for qualia, first-person awareness, and observer-dependent realities...