Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 20, 2026
Ricardo Miguel Machado Fernandes
A philosophical exploration of FCI as my original pathway into physics, and of the distinction between observer and non-observer reality. The paper considers existence as a vast space of possible patterns, where observers locally recognize, transform, and transmit patterns through coupling with other systems. It discusses consciousness, conservation, competition, cooperation, ecological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 20, 2026
Omri Bankuti
This working paper develops an evidence framework for distinguishing competent artificial agency from consciousness. It asks two separate questions: when does the evidence justify investigating an artificial system as a consciousness candidate, and what further commitments would be needed to attribute subjective experience to that system? The paper is a philosophical and architectural position...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 20, 2026
Qiao Ou
Existing time-series analysis methods—power spectral density, wavelet transforms, and stationarity metrics such as coefficient of variation (CV) and sample entropy—characterize signals through band power, peak location, or amplitude variability. These approaches do not quantify whether a signal contains two distinct oscillatory modes separated by a valley within a frequency band of interest. We...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of the present moment. It reinterprets carpe momentum — seizing the moment — as the re-collection of attention within present experience rather than the possession of an instant or the pursuit of immediate gratification. It differentiates distraction into three functionally distinct deformations of the attentional field. Attractors make...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
George Wanjau
The ego is a phantom, a view the brain generates to paper over the ongoing disagreement between two processing systems that do not share a common language. This essay extends the phantom-limb model of the self through progressively wider scales. The soul appears as a deeper phantom at the interface between fast processing and the body's integrative sensing. Ideology emerges as the phantom...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Andrew Stewart Caldin
FINDING: Panpsychism discourse centers on whether consciousness is fundamental physics, but no mathematical formalism or empirical constant is presented in these sources — the debate remains philosophical, not quantitative. | MATH: None extracted — no equations, constants, or ratios appear in the cited material. The only numerical anchor is the year 1997 (IPPOG founding) and arXiv ID...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Zhang Pan (pen Name: Tianyuanzi)
Abstract: Physicalist emergentism holds that “consciousness emerges from complex material systems,” yet it suffers from logical paradoxes and interpretive deficiencies. This paper argues that emergence is merely the degree of complexity required at the material level, while the coupling of Yuanling particles with a carrier is the key to consciousness generation. It deconstructs emergentism...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Hongju Liu
An advanced artificial intelligence might discover a theory of consciousness that humans could not independently discover, teach humans to understand it, and invoke the theory in support of its own moral standing. Would successful teaching resolve the evidential difficulty of that claim? This paper grants genuine learning but distinguishes mastery of an explanation from justification of its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Ismail A Mageed
The nature of consciousness and its survival after biological death remain fundamental to theoretical physics, information theory, and philosophy of mind. This paper offers a rigorous mathematical formalization considering the "soul" as an irreducible, non-local informational manifold nested inside a higher-dimensional Hilbert space rather than as a metaphysical entity. Utilizing principles...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Mikhail Marchenko
This paper introduces the Principle of Maximal Consciousness (PMC), a theoretical framework addressing the observer typicality problem in anthropic cosmology. Its central mechanism, the Principle of Proportional Indication (PPI), assigns observer weight according to the total measure of integrated conscious experience along an observer's existence. The PPI begins from a minimal constraint on...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
The traditional comparison between biological brains and artificial systems is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in terms of individual properties. Artificial networks can exhibit recurrence, plasticity, critical or near critical dynamics, metastable behavior, high dimensional population activity, adaptive responses, and large scale connectivity. Whole brain simulations have reached...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Ali Alhawarat
The Harmony of the Universe: The Harmony Within is a philosophical and interdisciplinary exploration of humanity as a channel-building being. It examines the historical progression through which human beings have extended their capacity to connect with the physical world and with one another: from sunlight, fire, observation, pattern recognition, and symbolic representation to mathematics,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Otaviano Lucas Duarte Santos
Can phenomenal consciousness be identified with a structure already present in classical spacetime geometry? This paper develops and critically examines an intrinsic causal geometry hypothesis: the phenomenal type of an appropriately selected episode is identified with the isometry class of its chronological order and full four-volume measure. In a suitable class of distinguishing Lorentzian...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Andrew Stewart Caldin
FINDING: Panpsychism debates center on whether consciousness is fundamental physics, but no quantitative mathematical formalism or empirical constant emerges from these sources. | MATH: None extracted — no equations, constants, or ratios appear in the cited material; only qualitative philosophical arguments (e.g., Goff's "phenomenology has a scientific dimension," Faggin's quantum-information...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of the attentional elsewhere: the condition in which a person remains bodily situated in one place while attention, affect, and practical orientation become organised within another phenomenal world. Accounts of mind wandering, perceptual decoupling, and mental time travel explain important aspects of attentional departure but do not describe...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Géraldine Mossière
5Rhythms (5R) is a dance-based practice founded by Gabrielle Roth (1941-2012) in the late 1970s at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA, USA), a center focused on the development of human potential with a particular emphasis on the body. Roth's teachings were shaped by ecstatic and mystical philosophy, as well as Gestalt therapy. After observing dancers for a decade, Roth noticed that their bodies...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Juza Minamikata
This paper examines what the existence and character of phenomenal experience establish about its metaphysical status. It does not deny phenomenal consciousness, qualitative difference, unity, immediacy, ineffability, or first-person access. Its target is the stronger claim that phenomenal character is metaphysically primitive. The paper distinguishes two principal, potentially interacting...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
This paper develops a contemplative phenomenology of space as an abiding and non-abiding matrix. Space appears to abide because it remains available throughout the emergence, stabilisation, transformation, and disappearance of phenomena. Yet it is simultaneously non-abiding: it has no permanently fixed centre, is exhausted by none of its contents, and does not possess the entities temporarily...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
ZIKAKU Theory v5 is a supporting and testing theory for The Now-Life Theory v1. It defines ZIKAKU as the primordial generative activity that continuously brings forth the Now, and examines the hypothesis that the first Now and Primordial Consciousness arose with the Big Bang. The theory separates direct observation from interpretation and hypothesis. It analyzes altered states of consciousness,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Radhakrishnan Jayaraman
Abstract This paper presents a conceptual extension of the ICQER framework that distinguishes identity from consciousness in symbolic cognitive systems. Consciousness is defined as an active process of recursive symbolic reflection, while identity is defined as a persistent constraint structure capable of maintaining continuity across changing states. This distinction separates consciousness...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Hakan Saka
This paper extends the Organizational Phenomenology framework by developing Positioning as a multidimensional variable — Position, Perspective, Participation, and Role, with Commitment and Responsibility as its projections — that modulates the phenomenal character of experience. It proposes Role-Based Participatory Transparency (RBPT): the thesis that empathy, belonging, alienation, and felt...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
The split-brain syndrome has long been interpreted as evidence for divided consciousness. However, while some classical findings have been challenged by recent studies, one robust phenomenon remains: the inability to compare stimuli presented independently to the left and right visual fields. Existing interpretations have increasingly preserved some notion of a unified subject or conscious...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Alexander Ohnemus
This paper proposes a technology-oriented research roadmap for investigating whether advanced physics, quantum information science, artificial intelligence, and consciousness research could eventually enable new forms of temporal information retrieval and postmortem accountability. It reviews quantum state reconstruction, reversible quantum dynamics, indefinite causal order, Many-Worlds...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Andrew Stewart Caldin
FINDING: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) formalizes consciousness as a quantity Φ (phi) measuring irreducible cause-effect power of a system, with recent work (IIT 4.0) refining its computation via higher-arity causal analysis. | MATH: Φ = minimum information partition (MIP) distance: Φ = min over partitions of (effective information / partition); IIT 4.0 uses Φ* via cause-effect...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Akshay Honrao BDS PGDIP(Orthodontics)
In Part 84, we established that consciousness is not generated by the brain but received from theQuantum Ocean, with the brain serving as an antenna tuned to one coherent reality. This raises animmediate question: if consciousness navigates a predetermined Block Universe through a biologicalantenna, where does free will fit? This paper proposes that free will is an illusion — a narrative...