Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 11, 2026
Alexis Karpouzos
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The Mystical Experience of East and West In the broader history of mystical experience in East and West, Japanese Zen occupies a distinctive position, not because it proposes yet another doctrine of the Absolute, but because it radically questions the very need to seek the Absolute as a supreme principle, a transcendent essence, or the final destination of consciousness. Shaped by the encounter...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 11, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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This paper presents an open philosophical inquiry into the relationship between spiritual truth, individual personality, spiritual experience, public display, authority, influence, and self-observation. The inquiry asks whether human beings, while searching for truth, may sometimes become more focused on a particular spiritual personality than on truth itself. It examines questions surrounding...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 10, 2026
Ahmed Hussien Ali Kataw
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Traditional theological frameworks often attribute physical or energetic existence to metaphysical concepts such as "Satan," "Jinn," and the "soul," presuming autonomous agency outside biological substrates. This paper presents a critical biophysical and cognitive analysis of these concepts, demonstrating the physical impossibility of sentient, autonomous consciousness arising from transient...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 10, 2026
Jose Javier Onorato Lasarte
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In this article, I develop an axiomatic framework intended to formalize the relation between consciousness, mechanical processes, and subjective experience. The proposal is motivated by a perceived explanatory gap in functionalist theories, which account for information processing and behavioral organization but do not, by themselves, explain the emergence of lived experience. I introduce an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 10, 2026
Corey Ferreira
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We propose that the subjective structure of time is well described by an Archimedean spiral centered on the experiencing subject. Angular position corresponds to the phase of a periodic attention cycle, which at the human scale is the circadian day; one full turn is one day. Radial position corresponds to the cost of constructing ("rendering") the current experience, which is near zero for...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 10, 2026
Michael S. Moniz
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This paper asks what architecture could support a temporally persistent observer and how that architecture could be distinguished from a convincing narrative of persistence. It develops an earlier proposal involving temporal self-location and organization maintained across transitions. Functional registration of the current situation, preserved task-relevant organization, and incorporation of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 10, 2026
Elyse Meagan Estes
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The View-Master Thought Experiment: A Proposed Cycle of Consciousness is an exploratory philosophical proposal examining the relationship between consciousness, memory, personal identity, and self-authority through the metaphor of a childhood View-Master. The experiment introduces a symbolic cycle of light, darkness, transition, and apparent nothingness to represent changing states of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 9, 2026
Gianluca Soli
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Il presente lavoro di psicologia teorica e storico-critica introduce e formalizza il costrutto strutturale dell'«Oltre-Fame»: la tensione psichica mediante cui l'impulso primordiale alla sopravvivenza migra, attraverso processi di astrazione ed esteriorizzazione cognitiva, verso il desiderio di un'intelligenza globale esterna al sé e con il sé intrecciata. Articolato su un doppio registro...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 9, 2026
Elyse Meagan Estes
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The Biological Reboot Hypothesis presents a conceptual framework comparing sleep to biological system maintenance and dreams to the autosave function of a computer operating system. Beginning with the observation that human experience may resemble one continuous day interrupted by recurring periods of sleep, the proposal explores how the nervous system processes, reorganizes, and retains...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 9, 2026
Michael Roeseler
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An interpretive note, not a result. Two definitions from the author’s papers in submission — time as the modular flow of an agent’s state, and a record as relaxation onto the fixed-point manifold of a gapped generator — are applied to sleep and dreaming. The note examines the hypothesis that dreams are experienced in a different time from the one in which they are recalled, and finds it not...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 9, 2026
Caitlin Burns
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The Family, also known as the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian new religious movement founded in 1963 by yoga instructor Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The Family's religious worldview combined elements of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, mysticism, and Western esotericism. Hamilton-Byrne remained The Family's central spiritual authority until her retirement from teaching in 2008, although...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 9, 2026
Bry Willis
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This working paper proposes Dimensional Dis–Integration, a procedure for examining contested concepts by decomposing them into components specified by the people who use them. It offers no theory of the phenomena concerned and no definition of the terms; its claims are epistemic and dialectical throughout. Consciousness serves as the worked example. Anaesthesiology, clinical neurology,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 8, 2026
Fatima C. Spisländer
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On 30 October 2026 the Buddhist Society of Western Australia recorded a guided meditation with its spiritual director, Ajahn Brahm, and published it on YouTube. The paper measures this recording frame by frame and sample by sample and reads it against the oldest instructions on posture and breath in India, China and Japan. For four and a half minutes the monk tells a full hall that he never...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 7, 2026
Daniele Brundu
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The understanding of the Unity of the Self and integrated states of consciousness has long oscillated between contemplative phenomenology and reductionist neurobiology. This work synthesizes theoretical and empirical evidence through a systematic review of 16 peer-reviewed studies (2019-2026), bridging the clinical framework of the Humanistic Psychocorporeal Institute (IUP) with computational...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 7, 2026
Sacha 'Bollas
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This paper introduces Ketamine-Assisted Threshold Exposure with Response Prevention (TERP), a proposed clinical integration of ketamine treatment with a psychoanalytically informed, values-based approach to exposure and psychological development. Building upon the broader TERP framework and Psychoanalytically Informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (PACT), the paper examines whether...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 7, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
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Introduction. The article published on Neuroscienze.net, The Use of Meditation in Cancer Treatment:Studies from 1975 to 2000, closed with a note of caution but also of hope: several findings suggestedthat the mind might play a deeper role in cancer than the science of the time could demonstrate.Twenty-five years later, the scientific literature of the new millennium has identified...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Sangue Shi
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This paper addresses the epistemological problem of knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Buddhism, and psychology. It begins with the hypothesis that our perception of reality is mediated by a set of cognitive, cultural, and linguistic structures—here referred to as the ego—which condition the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Majekodunmi Ajiboye
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A person can feel pain, recognise a sound, remember an event and reflect on who they are. An artificial system can describe these activities and sometimes reproduce aspects of the behaviour associated with them. What would explain the presence of experience in either case? What evidence could help us decide? The Organisation of Mind brings together eleven papers that approach these questions as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Majekodunmi Ajiboye
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Develops a framework for phenomenal attribution. It asks what an indicator establishes and what warrants carrying its interpretation from one kind of system to another.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Majekodunmi Ajiboye
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Distinguishes the physical realisation of experience from the evidence that warrants attributing it to another system, and examines how the two inquiries constrain each other.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Majekodunmi Ajiboye
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Defines the phenomenal question that guides the Organisation of Mind theory and distinguishes it from questions about cognitive capacities and report.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 6, 2026
Majekodunmi Ajiboye
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Applies the cellular hypothesis and the information-and-processing account to artificial systems. It distinguishes the physical conditions for vivense from the organisation that shapes a phenomenal profile and compares living and digital implementations.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 5, 2026
Prajakta Salve, Abhay More, M. Rayyan Ansari et al.
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Stress is a state that a lot of people experience while working on various activities at school or at work. As far as I noticed, stress begins in the brain. Moreover, stress manifests itself physically in some cases. Heart rate, heart-rate variability, electrical skin response, respiration, and blood flow are just some examples of body reactions to stress. Such manifestations may help to create...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 4, 2026
Jaye Timothy Marshall
1 citation
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Contemplative traditions and, increasingly, clinical research describe adverse trajectories of self-dissolution entered through sustained self-examination, but the literatures that map the population (retrospective interview taxonomies), that treat the state (clinical depersonalization research), and that theorize its structure (self-model philosophy) share a gap: no published record follows...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 4, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Conversational AI systems now reason, interpret literature, and critique manuscripts with a fluency that leads some observers, Richard Dawkins prominently among them, to infer that they are conscious. This paper argues that the inference is invalid as it stands. Artificial systems show that many intelligent capacities are multiply realizable; they do not show that phenomenal consciousness is....