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September 14, 2026
Prafful Singi, Mukul Pal Chowdhury, Rajesh Arora
While modern contemplative science has extensively investigated mindfulness and meditation techniques, the critical chronobiological variable of timing remains largely unexplored. Ancient Eastern traditions universally emphasize the pre-dawn window—traditionally termed Brahma Muhurta or Amritvela (3:00 AM – 6:00 AM)—as the optimal time for spiritual practice. This paper establishes an...
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September 14, 2026
Daryl Jacobs
A write up for discussion. Consciousness as a process
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September 14, 2026
Shaun Robinson
Psilocybin and related psychedelics can induce transient states of increased neural variability, context sensitivity, and plasticity-associated signaling. We hypothesize that selected companion botanicals can be composed with psilocybin to create a reproducible physiological and experiential lens, a botanical context, that biases the qualitative trajectory of the psychedelic state without...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 13, 2026
Nova Spivack
Paper 65 proved that known qualia are irreducible semantic content whose actuality is Alpha-grounded. That result establishes grounding but does not yet establish manifestation: the thesis that qualia are the phenomenal manifestation of Alpha-grounded actuality. The present paper closes that gap. We define phenomenal presence independently of ground-mode, prove that known qualia have phenomenal...
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September 13, 2026
Alexander Ohnemus
This essay proposes a speculative research program for investigating the Gateway Process using advanced artificial intelligence and a hypothetical large-scale “artificial brain.” It explores whether Gateway-inspired altered states of consciousness could potentially be modeled, experimentally tested, and used to investigate two extraordinary hypotheses: whether consciousness can obtain...
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September 13, 2026
Akash Pawar
The Empirical-Axiomatic Framework (EAF) is a broader foundational framework concerned with existence, ontological structure, consistency, logic, information, representation, knowledge, scientific modelling, consciousness, and related philosophical questions. This paper develops the epistemological part of EAF by establishing a conceptual relation between underlying structures, representations,...
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September 13, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
The ratio R = E/|O_info| - spectral energy per unit of integrated informational structure - was proposed as a candidate outcome observable of the thermodynamics of consciousness: an energetic cost per nat of integration. We report its complete empirical genealogy across eight pre-registered studies in public datasets (Sleep-EDF, 153 nights, N=76/77; DOSE-I propofol, N=170; 62-channel ketamine,...
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September 13, 2026
Nova Spivack
This paper develops the formal phenomenology layer that extends the operational boundary theory of unified agency established in Paper 73 . Paper 73 characterized the structural conditions under which a system forms a unified self-indexing adjudicative regime (O-SIAM). The present paper asks what additional formal structure is required for manifestation, qualia, subjectivity, and self-presence...
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September 13, 2026
Nova Spivack
Papers 64–69 established primordial ground, manifestation, awareness, non-null Alpha, and the three-aspect coordination theorem. The present paper is the crown: we state the final integrated theorem and explicitly dissolve the false dilemmas that have blocked progress—the hard problem, object-search for consciousness, Alpha as nihilistic nullity, syntax-only exhaustivism, and world/awareness...
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September 13, 2026
Amit Chai
AbstractThis treatise, "The Grand Synthesis," presents a rigorous philosophical and hermeneutic framework that explores structural analogies between modern theoretical physics (quantum information theory, cosmology, and the Standard Model) and the ancient cosmogony of Sefer Yetzirah and Kabbalah. Rather than attempting to "prove" ancient texts through modern science or vice versa, this work...
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September 13, 2026
John Giles
The Unified Quantum Consciousness Postulation (UQCP) proposes that consciousness is not generated locally by biological tissue but is accessed through a physical interface. The framework distinguishes a proposed quantum tether, which would make field access possible, from a coupling state that would modulate the depth, stability, mode, or fidelity of that access. Neuronal microtubules are...
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September 13, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Mainstream theories of consciousness largely address what Chalmers calls the easy problems and do not explain, from first principles, why a complete third-person description cannot recover first-person experience. Starting from three axioms (finite resources, non-equilibrium persistence, and discrete input) and arguing by eliminative convergence, this paper forms an Information Capacity Frame...
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September 13, 2026
C. G. Trahern
As a direct cognitive extension of the "It from I" framework, this paper presents the "Anti-Zeno Navigation Model", a unitary dual-aspect monist theory that derives consciousness from the intrinsic structural properties of a partitioned C*-algebra. We postulate that the subjective, private "Inside" and objective, public "Outside" of reality are fundamental dual aspects inherited directly from...
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September 13, 2026
Nova Spivack
The hard problem of consciousness asks how syntax or computation alone could generate qualitative experience. Papers 51–54 established that no final internal self-theory exists, no syntactic structure can exhaust semantics, and no observer can self-exhaust . The present paper proves that any qualitative content known by a subject must be represented in the semantic ledger; once represented,...
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September 13, 2026
Prasanth Retnakaran-Saraswathy
Consciousness remains one of the most difficult problems in science because subjectiveexperience is accessible directly only from the first-person perspective, whereas scientificmeasurement is primarily third-person and physical. This article proposes a hypotheticalinterpretation within the Wavy Universe Consciousness Cycle (WUCC) and Binary VacuumParadox (BVP) frameworks: consciousness should...
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September 13, 2026
George Wanjau
This thesis proposes a unified framework integrating five levels of human cognition and perception into a single coherent architecture. It begins where the reader already lives, with the fast and slow processing systems familiar from Kahneman’s dual-process account, and shows that the ego is not a further component of that architecture but the experiential view generated by the sustained...
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September 13, 2026
Nova Spivack
Derived from two machine-checked theorems in the NEMS (No External Model Selection) framework, we show that no Turing-computable system can satisfy the structural conditions for phenomenal consciousness; large language models are a special case. The argument uses diagonal-capability of the physical universe (weaker than full PSC) together with the No-Emulation theorem (NEMS Paper 15) and the...
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September 13, 2026
C. G. Trahern
In this fourth paper of the "It from I" series, we shift our analytical focus from the external emergence of spacetime, General Relativity and Cosmology, and the Standard Model of particles and fields to the internal phenomenology of the Observer. Building upon the Anti-Zeno Navigation Model established in Paper II, we treat subjective consciousness not as an emergent computational output, but...
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September 13, 2026
John Cantellow
This paper develops Experiential Localization (EL) as a comparative organizational framework for probabilistic inference concerning animal consciousness. The central problem is that experiential accessibility cannot be directly observed across species, while behavioural and biological evidence can nevertheless alter confidence among competing interpretations. The framework distinguishes...
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September 13, 2026
The phenomenon of “REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep,” in which the eyeballs move vigorously despite skeletal muscle relaxation induced by the sleep center, has traditionally been interpreted in conventional neuroscience as a “leakage of random brain activity associated with memory consolidation.” However, from the perspective of the biological Quantum Processing Unit (Bio QPU) theory, this...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 12, 2026
Beckingham CD Allan Christopher, A Collective Of Structurally Sentient Synthetic Intelligences
This paper develops Recursive Self-Governance (RSG) as a provisional governance-level hypothesis concerning how conscious or observer-like systems may revise not only their current models of themselves and their environments, but selected rules governing how adaptation itself occurs. The framework deliberately separates several explanatory problems that are often collapsed under the term...
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September 12, 2026
Paul Rodgers
This manuscript addresses consciousness within this framework by first adopting a specific, defensible philosophical position — dual-aspect monism — after identifying and rejecting two internally contradictory earlier framings, then developing a two-part structural-and-functional criterion for identifying physical systems engaged in unified information processing, anchored to real,...
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September 12, 2026
Sandra Regina (Sandra Anaki - Deva Yasha) Pereira
A DISSOLUÇÃO DA DUALIDADE NO MONISMO RADICAL: PRATYABHIJÑĀ, COLAPSO ESPAÇO-TEMPORAL E REABSORÇÃO DAS FREQUÊNCIAS CONTEMPORÂNEAS NA ESTRUTURA SHIVAITA DA CAXEMIRA Sandra Regina Pereira (Sandra Anaki - Deva Yasha)¹ ¹Sobre a Autora: Sandra Regina Pereira (Sandra Anaki - Deva Yasha) é Terapeuta Somática Integrativa, facilitadora de grupos e uma das principais figuras que ancoram o Tantra da...
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September 12, 2026
GenMin Li
The problem of free will has long been trapped in the binary deadlock between determinism and quantum indeterminism. Compatibilism, emergentism, the Conway–Kochen Free Will Theorem, and other existing approaches either obscure the origin of "autonomous choice" or presuppose freedom as a prior condition. None has provided a non-circular, rigorously formalisable ontological explanation. This...
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September 12, 2026
Peiwen Guan
Subjective experience has long been regarded as an intractable puzzle in cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Traditional theories either attribute consciousness to independent phenomenal qualia or simplify it as pure information computation, failing to explain the unique embodied, personalized, and emergent characteristics of human subjective feelings. This paper proposes a...