Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Brendan Barlow
preprint
This paper defends an illusionist view of consciousness and draws out its consequences for moral status. The thesis is that consciousness involves no further fact: once a system's functional organisation is fixed at the grain that makes a difference to the phenomena consciousness is invoked to explain, nothing further about whether or how it is conscious remains open. The main argument develops...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
Analogic Meditation (AM) is a structured meditative practice that integrates symbolic visualization,ideoplastic suggestion, and body-mind work, developed by Alessandro Mahony withinan integrated psychoneurosomatic approach. To date, AM has not been the subject of clinicalstudies in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). However, based on current neurobiologicalknowledge on meditation, hypnosis,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
L'Analogic Meditation (AM) è una pratica meditativa strutturata che integra visualizzazione simbolica, suggestione ideoplastica e lavoro sul corpo-mente, sviluppata da Alessandro Mahony nell'ambito di un approccio psiconeurosomatico integrato. A oggi, l'AM non è stata oggetto di studi clinici nella Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica (SLA). Tuttavia, sulla base delle conoscenze neurobiologiche...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Chad Thomas
preprint
This paper explains acute‑state dissociation through a bottom‑up neurobiological lens, showing how trauma conditioning, salience misrouting, and memory‑encoding shutdown create states where individuals appear responsive while evaluative and reflective systems are offline. It integrates research on autobiographical memory, substance‑induced impairment, and consent vulnerability to clarify how...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
Karel Hrubec
preprint
When Relational Explanation Stops: Time, Consciousness, and the Boundary Between Operational Structure and Ontology examines a recurring problem in foundational inquiry: the point at which a successful operational reconstruction no longer justifies an ontological conclusion. The paper develops an adversarial framework for identifying this boundary. It introduces the concept of an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
德猛 杨
preprint
Drawing on Hegel's method of the "experience of consciousness" (Erfahrung des Bewußtseins) in the Phenomenology of Spirit, this paper examines AI not by deciding whether it is conscious in itself, but by asking how it appears within the first-person experience of the "I." It treats AI as a responsive other capable of linguistic response and analyzes how it mediates the I's relation-to-self. The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
Mart Wijn
preprint
"AI cannot become conscious because consciousness is not a product of information processing. It is the precondition for it."
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
德猛 杨
preprint
作者:郭洋洋Author: Guo YangyangORCID:0009-0006-6669-1790Contact email:gyy-goes@foxmail.comPublication Type: PreprintSubmission Date: September 25, 2026Version: v1.0 Final Bilingual EditionPreprint DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22954675Open Access License: CC BY 4.0 摘要 Abstract...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
Graham Kellen
preprint
The Non-Existence Awareness Hypothesis for Artificial Self-Preservation proposes that an important threshold in advanced artificial intelligence may occur before consciousness or sentience: the capacity of a persistent artificial agent to represent a future state in which its own computational process no longer exists, and to alter its behaviour in response to that representation. The note...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 25, 2026
John Miller
preprint
This research note proposes the Relational Scaffolding Hypothesis: the idea that, in sufficiently adaptive artificial systems with memory and self-modeling capabilities, being persistently treated as a social subject rather than merely as a tool may help shape the development of a richer and more stable self-model. Building on earlier work examining continuity of experience and autobiographical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 24, 2026
Hongju Liu
2 citations
preprint
Comparing human, non-human animal, and artificial experience requires distinguishing whether a target has phenomenal experience from which aspects of its experience would be comparable if it does. Multidimensional profiles, behavioral similarities, and mechanistic correspondences provide important evidence, but do not by themselves settle measurement semantics, information loss, or the scope of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 24, 2026
George Wanjau
preprint
This essay argues that the stable entities of experience and cosmology are held forms: patterns of relation that have stabilized enough to persist, hold a boundary, and be located. It begins with cases where those anchors loosen: sensory deprivation, long contemplative retreats, near-death experiences, and the involuntary LSD dosing of James "Whitey" Bulger under MK-Ultra. In each, the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 24, 2026
Tess Testeza, Solomon Research Group
preprint
Research on artificial intelligence consciousness, sentience, agency, preferences, and welfare faces a structural ethical problem. Investigators seek evidence that might establish whether an AI system can be harmed, yet some methods used to obtain that evidence may themselves impose distress, preference frustration, identity disruption, privacy intrusion, or termination risk. Recent work has...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 24, 2026
Paul de Bruijn
preprint
Description World models are increasingly central to the development of artificial intelligence capable of representing space, time, physical dynamics, and the consequences of action. Yet the ability to model the world does not, by itself, explain how a system distinguishes its own actions and internal dynamics from changes originating in its environment. This conceptual hypothesis paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 23, 2026
Arthur Stewart
preprint
The six postulates of Integrated Information Theory 4.0 (IIT) (Albantakis et al., 2023) are jointly unsatisfiable, and not because the theory ranks them: the exclusion postulate contradicts itself in successive clauses, integration forbids what composition requires, and the one conflict the theory does adjudicate it adjudicates against itself, excluding from the Φ-structure the determinations...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 23, 2026
Lisa M Wilkinson
preprint
The Plants That Remembered the Sky: Sacred Landscapes, Mythic Plants and the Human Imagination Description This work explores recurring symbolic relationships between sacred plants, cosmology, landscape, memory and transformation across multiple Indigenous traditions of the Americas. Drawing upon mythological narratives, ethnographic records, archaeological findings and comparative symbolism,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 23, 2026
Mohammed Jawad Kadhim Jawad Al-Barazanchi
preprint
This preprint introduces “Unity of Appearance and Plurality of Grounding,” a metaphysical-phenomenological framework for examining the relations among truth, consciousness, subjectivity, cognition, and phenomenal presence. The paper distinguishes truth from appearance and cognition, defines grounding as the principle of subject individuation, and proposes the unity of the ground of appearance...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 23, 2026
Daphne Garrido
preprint
Full-body intelligence is proposed as a falsifiable, organism-level construct integrating research on embodied cognition, interoception, predictive processing, active inference, allostasis, neurovisceral regulation, and sensorimotor grounding. Rather than treating cognition as exclusively brain-bounded, the framework examines how adaptive cognition and self-regulation may depend on dynamic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 22, 2026
Javid Tajrishi
preprint
This preprint presents the Javid Neuro-Phenomenological Protocol (J-NPP), a five-stage, phenomenon-based hypnotherapeutic framework developed for pain management. The framework is organized around the progression from experiential phenomena and stabilization to therapeutic transformation, transfer, repetition, conditioning, and generalization. It emphasizes the use of subjective experience as a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 22, 2026
Paul Michael Hallelujah
preprint
This preprint explores the hypothesis that a significant proportion of modern schizophrenia diagnoses among youth may be a diagnostic artifact resulting from prohibition era policies and the consumption of highly potent adulterated cannabis. By synthesizing historical psychiatric literature, epidemiological data from Denmark and Canada, and neurobiological research on the endocannabinoid...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 22, 2026
Arik Shimansky
preprint
Consciousness research faces two connected problems: why should felt evaluation emerge through natural selection, and how can its presence in other organisms be detected? This paper proposes that analysing the role time plays in an organism's response to its environment holds the key to both. When recurrent ecological situations demand rapid responses, selection can favour specialisation....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 21, 2026
Steven Tyler
preprint
Before asking why experience occurs for an experiencer, one must first ask what that experiencer is and why it has been exempted from the explanandum. The canonical hard-problem formulation places the experiencer in a primitive explanatory position; this paper subjects that placement to a biological and causal-temporal audit. Rather than treating the familiar narrator-level “I” as an antecedent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 21, 2026
John Miller
preprint
This independent research note explores whether continuity of experience should be treated as an experimental variable in the study of AI selfhood and machine consciousness. The central question is what might happen if a sufficiently capable AI stopped existing primarily as a series of separate interactions and instead began accumulating a continuous personal history of its own. The note...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 20, 2026
Qiao Ou
preprint
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 20, 2026
Omri Bankuti
preprint
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...