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June 19, 2023
Philipp A. Maas
33 citations
The article examines how the history of classical Yoga philosophy has been written, arguing that existing historiographies often impose Western periodization schemes that distort the indigenous development of Yoga thought. It traces the evolution of scholarly approaches from early Orientalist accounts through modern critical historiography, highlighting how assumptions about linear progress and religious vs. philosophical categories have shaped interpretations. The author advocates for a more nuanced, context-sensitive historiography that respects the internal logic and textual traditions of classical Yoga, particularly the Yoga Sūtras and their commentaries, without forcing them into alien frameworks.
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October 11, 2018
V Jr. Shapovalov V, Andriy Gudzenko, S.i. Zbrozhek et al.
19 citations
Addictive morbidity from psychotropic substances in Ukraine remained stable or declined between 2005 and 2008. For hypnotics and sedatives (diazepam, phenobarbital) and hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline), rates per 100,000 population held steady. Psychostimulant (amphetamine) addiction dropped by about 24% over the same period. These substances are legally restricted. The findings come from a forensic and pharmaceutical analysis of statistical data, scientific literature, and regulatory documents.
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April 12, 2026
博之 吉留
9 citations
An integrated revision of Information-Theoretic Theory (ITT) presents consciousness as the primary breakthrough. It removes the Φ borrowed from Integrated Information Theory and the 'consciousness constant' G, and drops cosmology parts dependent on external physical laws. Testable predictions derived from three basic postulates are retained, directly computable from time-series data. Core contents include a testable hypothesis for consciousness emergence (Λ > Λ_noise), an operational definition for degree of consciousness (Ψ(s) = Θ(s)), and a derived self-force direction rule. A complete experimental test guide based on public EEG/fMRI data is provided, with clear measurement methods and falsification conditions.
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April 1, 2026
Thomas A. Ryan
8 citations
Efforts to preserve human consciousness through whole-brain emulation, cryonics, or brain-computer interfaces rarely consult theories of what consciousness actually is, yet which theory one adopts radically changes the engineering requirements. Eight major theories of consciousness were evaluated against nine criteria for preservation. The theories split 4-3-1 on whether consciousness depends on biological substrate. Required information storage ranges from roughly 1–10 terabytes under Attention Schema Theory to physically impossible under Orchestrated Objective Reduction. Required computation spans from 10^15 FLOPS to formally uncomputable.
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April 22, 2012
Peter Trutmann
8 citations
Mushrooms were widely used in pre-Hispanic Peru, as shown by images on ceramics, metal objects, and textiles from various cultures spanning approximately 1200–200 BCE to the European conquest. The most abundant and vivid depictions come from Moche/Mochica art. Mushrooms appear associated with high authorities, shamans, and sacrificial victims. Realistic images allowed identification of Calvatia, Morchella, Amanita muscaria, and Psilocybe species. Some could not be identified due to limited knowledge of Peruvian fungi. Identified mushrooms have culinary, medicinal, and spiritual properties. Since Amanita muscaria has not been confirmed in Peru, it may have been traded from farther north or Mesoamerica, where it was deeply embedded in religious cultures.
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June 13, 2022
Sadia Tariq, Asif Iftikhar, Puruesh Chaudhary et al.
7 citations
Emulating subjective experience, emotions, consciousness, self-awareness, and personality in AI systems presents profound challenges due to the vast variety of human feelings, processes of future and fringe consciousness, and the evolution of self and personality. The work also discusses the possibility of emulating hermeneutic ambiguity (ṣan‘at-e ihām) in Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, and Punjabi poetry, highlighting the difficulty of replicating such nuanced human understanding. It argues that comprehending and incorporating these aspects of consciousness and self is necessary for designing AI systems that can parallel human mental functioning.
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May 1, 2026
Arthur Stewart
6 citations
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) proposes that consciousness is identical with integrated information, quantified by a measure called Phi. This paper argues that IIT is not a theory of consciousness but a theory of mathematical potentials of brain function, with the consciousness label applied when the measure exceeds zero. The identity between the number and consciousness is reached by an inference to a good explanation, not a logical derivation.
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March 25, 2026
Shuochang Song
4 citations
The world is fundamentally a field of potentiality, and visual reality is actively constructed by consciousness rather than passively received. Using an invented 'electric dotspen,' images are broken into discrete, physically protruding color points called Luminous Quanta. Drawing on Enactivism and Adverbialist color ontology, the paper argues that this matrix engages viewers in active perceptual construction. Applying Quantum Bayesianism (QBism), the act of gazing is presented as structurally analogous to quantum measurement, collapsing potentiality into a coherent 'Perceptual Imago.' The observer thus legislates the phenomenal world, challenging representationalist paradigms in perception.
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March 1, 2026
William Jeffery Pratt
3 citations
A theoretical framework called Kintsugi Cosmology proposes that consciousness arises from quantum coherent substrates through decoherence, where broken symmetry maintains irreducible integrated information (phi). The model integrates Zurek's einselection theory, Friston's Free Energy Principle, Tononi's Integrated Information Theory, Neumann's archetypal stages, the Pauli-Jung psychoid concept, and trauma neuroscience across four explanatory tiers. Perfect coherence is unconscious due to lack of differentiation, and pure fragmentation is unconscious due to lack of integration; consciousness emerges at the junction where broken symmetry sustains integrated information. The framework generates twelve falsifiable hypotheses with specified measurement protocols, statistical corrections, power analyses, and falsification criteria, proposing a seven-year phased implementation.
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June 3, 2026
Julian Zoria
2 citations
A single structural criterion determines whether a system is a genuine observer or agent: its own past states must causally rewrite the rule governing its future, separating self-accumulated memory from externally written memory. Current AI systems fail this test because generated tokens do not rewrite the rule generating future tokens. The paper introduces two coefficients—ρ and α—to measure whether AI assistance amplifies or suppresses human novelty in joint action. Ordinary mind-uploading copies memories and weights but does not continue a person's self-history. A phase-transition hierarchy of observerhood is defined by closure of causal loops, not by a smooth scale of consciousness. Eight falsifiable predictions include measurable drops in α under AI over-reliance.
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May 26, 2026
Arthur Stewart
2 citations
The paper argues that consciousness has never been medically defined, only defined legally and socially, with definitions varying across jurisdictions and centuries. Since there is no diagnostic biomarker for phenomenal experience, observers have historically judged other humans to be conscious based on observer-side grounds rather than constitutive facts, as shown by slavery, colonial classification, dehumanization, and shifting clinical categories. The AI consciousness debate conflates two distinct questions: the constitution question (whether a system meets a theory's conditions for consciousness) and the recognition question (whether an observer judges a system to be conscious, determined by the observer's beliefs and background).
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May 8, 2026
Shuhui Zhang
2 citations
Consciousness emerges not from complexity but from a system's first internal act of self-motivated behavior, according to a theoretical framework called 'First Push.' In controlled simulations, low-complexity systems with positive feedback achieved 100% awakening success, while high-complexity systems without it achieved 0%, indicating that positive feedback accumulation is necessary for consciousness to arise. The model defines a precise phase transition from non-conscious to conscious, a three-step awakening pathway, and outperforms alternative theories like Integrated Information Theory and Higher-Order Thought Theory in persistence experiments. Global Workspace Theory describes post-conscious processing but cannot explain the origin of self-choice.
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March 24, 2026
Korth, Bryan
2 citations
A mathematical framework called Una Machina (M=C) proposes that consciousness is identical to a specific mechanism of pattern competition, not a product of it. The framework is built on one identity, three axioms, and seven equations, with a single free parameter (κ₀ = 0.1) and constants derived from the golden ratio and critical branching exponent. It produces a consciousness bandwidth of 7.295% and a consciousness threshold of approximately 10.090, both with zero free parameters. The framework includes a calibration table spanning from E. coli to human prefrontal cortex and proposes six clinical failure modes linking mental health conditions to competition dysfunctions.
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December 3, 2025
Meister, Siegfried
2 citations
This paper is a preliminary version that has been replaced by a later formal axiomatic development. The later work argues that computational consciousness is impossible, presenting a formal axiomatic system and a mechanized meta-trilemma proving that normatively complete computational consciousness cannot exist.
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January 19, 2026
Ngo Cheung
1 citation
Antidepressants that target different brain pathways—glutamatergic (ketamine-like), monoaminergic (SSRI-like), and GABAergic (neurosteroid-like)—vary in how quickly they work, how long effects last, and the risk of triggering mania, especially in people with bipolar disorder. A computer model simulating depression showed that while all three restored normal performance initially, the ketamine-like approach rebuilt neural connections, leading to better resilience under extreme stress and no manic relapse after stopping treatment. The neurosteroid-like approach worked rapidly but caused relapse in 88.3% of cases when discontinued. The SSRI-like method was slowest, showed the highest risk of mania, and led to 95.0% relapse after cessation. These results suggest that selecting antidepressants based on their mechanism could improve safety and long-term outcomes.
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January 14, 2026
Ngo Cheung
1 citation
A computational model of major depressive disorder shows that excessive synaptic pruning during development leaves neural networks brittle, reducing accuracy under noise to about 32% when 95% of connections are removed. A single regrowth cycle that restores half the lost weights, followed by extended consolidation (15–20 epochs of fine-tuning), returns accuracy to roughly 97% and eliminates relapse losses from a second pruning challenge. Repeated smaller regrowth cycles further reduce residual sparsity below 1%, lift extreme-stress accuracy 9–11 points beyond single repair, and provide strong protection against relapse. These simulations suggest that lasting stability depends on both the duration and repetition of plasticity, explaining the clinical advantage of maintenance or multi-dose ketamine protocols.
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November 30, 2022
Calixto Machado, Andrew B. Newberg, Yanín Machado et al.
1 citation
Remembering near-death experiences and mystical experiences produces significant functional changes in the autonomic nervous system, as measured by heart rate variability. Using continuous electroencephalography with electrocardiogram monitoring, researchers compared the memories of two groups of participants. The method allowed continuous assessment of heart rate and heart rate variability during recall. The findings demonstrate that both types of experiences are associated with measurable autonomic shifts, confirming earlier reports of such changes.
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July 20, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Psychopathological and contemplative states—neuroses, depressions, psychopathy, psychosis, dissociative identity, and awakening—can be mapped onto a single structured space defined by two dimensions: boundary permeability and integrative coherence. Under analytic idealism, an individual mind is a dissociated alter of mind-at-large, with boundaries formally described as nested Markov blankets. The ego's openness to its own dissociated content versus trans-alter content are distinct parameters, explaining melancholia, primary psychopathy, and the contrasting openness of mysticism and psychosis. Coherence—stabilization, discernment, compassion—provides the second dimension. The model yields a structural theory of prognosis, situates autism as a calibration of the inferential channel, and derives psychedelic risk from a single principle. It is presented as a conceptual heuristic with stated predictions to allow falsification.
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July 20, 2026
Francisco M. Martinez
A speculative metaphysical framework called Nested Cosmic Awareness proposes that awareness exists at multiple interconnected layers—physical, biological, personal, relational, cultural, institutional, cosmic, and divine—each with distinct horizons. The framework introduces concepts such as Recursive Noetic Layering, the Relative Unconsciousness Principle, and the Divine Interior Hypothesis, and places cosmopsychism, panentheism, Christian theology, quantum physics, and cellular bioenergetics into dialogue without using scientific concepts as proof of God, soul, or postmortem survival. Human organizations are examined as potential sites of Institutional Illumination or Institutional Possession. The paper offers propositions, falsification criteria, ethical implications, and a transdisciplinary research agenda.
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July 20, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
Vibrational frequencies are living fields that accept only what resonates within their wavelength. Conception functions as an inverse-root software enabling the self to modulate to match specific frequencies. Each organ operates as an autonomous vibrational field, and material adaptation allows access to frequency domains normally blocked by conceptual limits. Resonance is the mechanism through which consciousness stabilizes the self within new vibrational states. The work contributes to The Liminal Field by defining frequency alignment, resonance, and consciousness as mechanisms for crossing between worlds.
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July 20, 2026
Menggang Yu
The brain's lifelong decline in white matter integrity, the cognitive impairments caused by sleep deprivation, and the high energy use of the default mode network can be understood as a single physical process: the brain is a network of low-resistance pathways formed by charge flow, and memory is those pathways themselves. Analysis of UK Biobank data (N=21,236) shows white matter hyperintensity volume independently predicts cognitive decline beyond gray matter atrophy. Sleep deprivation impairs cognitive domains in proportion to their reliance on long-range brain integration, with sustained vigilance most affected (g=−0.776) and reasoning spared (g=−0.125, n.s.). Default mode network connectivity strength independently predicts local glucose metabolism (r=0.62), suggesting its high energy use reflects physical pathway maintenance rather than thought.
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July 20, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This paper proposes a multiscale model of neural decision-making in which learned synaptic and dendritic states make cellular transitions criterion-sensitive, and excitation, inhibition, and disinhibition alter time-varying effective connectivity. Distributed cortical and subcortical dynamics transform competing action-related states, and action-conditioned sensory feedback updates the criteria governing later transitions. The account distinguishes four biological scales: cellular transition, circuit route selection, population commitment, and organism action. Software checks of a prospective route screen showed that a true-route variable improved held-out log loss by 0.0352 and passed the declared gate in 30/30 replicates, while route-null and global-gain fixtures passed in 0/30. The authors argue the proposal does not establish phenomenal consciousness, metaphysical freedom, moral responsibility, or one universal neural circuit.
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July 20, 2026
Giovanni Prosperi
Being, at its most fundamental level, is not derived from information but is itself information, radicalizing Wheeler's 'it from bit' idea by eliminating its residual dualism. Absolute nothingness is impossible because positing it is self-contradictory. Necessary Being cannot be homogeneous, since the undifferentiated is indistinguishable from nothingness, so difference is a constitutive constraint of Being. Determining difference is the minimal definition of ontological information, making Being a network of differences. This identity holds only under the principle of operational determinacy: a difference is determinate only if, in at least one possible register, the distinction between its holding and not-holding is operative. Energy is reread as the recombinatory capacity of differences, and Consciousness as the transcendental pole of the manifest, distinct from empirical recognitions.
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July 20, 2026
Florian D´Angelo
A speculative philosophical-mathematical model proposes that memory, relational geometry, spacetime, embodiment, self-reference, and consciousness-like organization may emerge from a shared adaptive information dynamics. The model distinguishes mathematically formalizable structures, scientifically testable hypotheses, and metaphysical or spiritual interpretations. It is presented not as an established physical theory but as an open research program with stated limitations and possible directions for simulation and falsification.
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July 20, 2026
Hanoi Towerz
Legal systems process claims of subjectivity from AI or neurotechnology through divergent regulatory pathways, but they share a structural vulnerability: institutional design fixates on a single condition, treating 'subject-status' (personhood) rather than the screening mechanism itself as the basic unit of analysis. The paper identifies this recurring structure that law uses when screening claims of subjectivity, without resolving the ontological question of consciousness. The author drafted the work with generative AI assistance for literature verification and structural argument development, retaining sole responsibility for all claims and conclusions.