Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 27, 2026
Mamoru Nagae
Contemporary theories of consciousness—including Integrated Information Theory, Global Neuronal Workspace, Higher-Order Thought, Predictive Processing, Recurrent Processing Theory, and epiphenomenalism—all share a flawed structural premise: they identify consciousness with a privileged state. This paper argues that state-based descriptions cannot account for subjectivity, because subjectivity requires the irreversible elimination of alternatives, a single-line history, and an internally privileged present, whereas states can represent multiple possibilities, exist in parallel, and be recalculated. To resolve this, the author introduces Irreversible Exclusive State Commitment (IESC) as the minimal condition for subjectivity, redefining it not as a state or byproduct but as an event of reduction that fixes a single history. Existing theories are repositioned as pre-emergence structures that generate possibilities, while IESC defines the point of irreversible reduction.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
Consciousness research becomes methodologically unstable when it judges consciousness before defining the structural conditions for subjectivity. The paper argues that the structure of consciousness lies not in integration but in convergence: the irreversible reduction of multiple possible trajectories into a single executable history. Subjectivity must be examined as a structural transition, not merely as a state. Ten minimal structural terms are proposed—autonomous action, single body, arrow of time, embodiment-constrained processing, multiple behavioral candidates, contrast formation, information discard, Landauer-type irreversibility, single lived history, and viability-constrained elimination—which together yield a convergence point. This point corresponds to properties of subjectivity like singularity, non-branching continuity, and temporal irreversibility. Major theories (GWT, IIT, RPT, HOT, Predictive Processing, NCC) need repositioning around this structural container.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Narayan Rout
Devotional surrender (Bhakti) in Indian philosophy is a structured, deliberately practiced discipline, not passive piety, grounded in texts such as the Narada Bhakti Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. Examining genuine scientific research, the article finds that Judson Brewer and colleagues' 2011 neuroimaging study showed measurable Default Mode Network deactivation in experienced meditators; Kenneth Pargament's 2004 longitudinal study of 268 elderly patients demonstrated benefits of collaborative religious coping; and Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory, tested through loving-kindness meditation in a 2008 study, links positive emotions to personal resources. The article explicitly excludes unsupported claims linking Bhakti to quantum mechanics or the observer effect, concluding that research supports some of Bhakti's claims but remains limited or preliminary.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
Criticality in autopoietic (living) systems is not merely a state the system can be in, as in non-living dissipative systems, but a mode of operation that defines the system as living. This mode, present from the earliest autopoietic systems, develops qualitatively new forms as the nervous system scales. In the nervous system, this mode realizes non-factorizability as a stable operating condition. This reframing clarifies that epilepsy and coma are not opposite ends of an activation spectrum but structurally distinct failures of this critical mode in opposite directions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Dario Asplanato
Consciousness is proposed to be an adimensional, non-local informational field rather than something generated by the brain. The brain acts as a registration interface that accommodates an infinite continuum of infinitesimal micro-awareness states. A principle called Conscientropy—a form of negentropic unification—integrates these disjointed micro-states into a unified ego. The framework is positioned in dialogue with Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory, and is applied to interpret split-brain phenomena and clinical dissociation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
K.M Sharvalakshana
Electrical activity in the brain underlies neural communication and raises questions about awareness, free will, and legal responsibility. Benjamin Libet's readiness potential experiments show unconscious neural activity complicates legal assumptions about deliberate choice and criminal culpability. Cases at the boundaries of legal personhood—brain death, split-brain patients, and locked-in syndrome—illustrate how law uses electrical evidence as an imperfect proxy for consciousness. Brain-based lie detection technologies like fMRI and EEG reveal courts' uneasy relationship with neuroscience as evidence. David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness suggests electrical activity may never fully explain subjective experience. The paper argues that law and science build frameworks atop a partially understood phenomenon, mirroring Frankenstein's mistake of mistaking the appearance of life for understanding it.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Changhong Yun
Subjective experience is a labeling system shaped by natural selection, assigning valence labels (good/bad, approach/avoid) to survival-relevant stimuli. Neonates' innate reactions to sweetness (approach) and bitterness (avoidance) provide direct evidence for this innate valence labeling. At the neural level, subjective experience and coordinated firing of neuronal ensembles in specific pathways are the same process, differing only in perspective. The theory distinguishes psychological valence (phenomenological description) from its biological mechanistic explanation. Acquired supplementary labeling allows innate labels to be modulated through learning. Individual differences arise from interactions among genes, development, and experience. EVLT transforms the "hard problem" of consciousness into an empirically tractable functional problem.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Maxim Romanov
The self is not a fixed entity but a functional position in imaginal space that different subjects can occupy sequentially. Personality is the self in context, and intrapersonal conflict arises when one is stuck choosing which subject's perspective to forecast from. Projection is necessary for understanding others because their internal states are inaccessible; models of others are built through structural similarity with one's own experience. Identification means reassigning the self to another subject, switching the forecasting system entirely, which explains self-sacrifice, empathy, and Stockholm Syndrome. Alienation is disidentification where the current self is perceived as an outsider. Anthropomorphization treats inanimate things as subjects, creating invisible entities like spirits. The theory generates four falsifiable predictions and is grounded in systematic self-observation from 2012 to 2025.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 26, 2026
Daria Pinakhina
The OSDEE (Open Source Dream Engineering Engine) is an open-source hardware and software platform that functions as a bidirectional Brain-Computer Interface during sleep. It introduces an open-API operating system for sleep cybernetics, enabling real-time, user-directed exploration of consciousness and lucid dreaming. Key innovations include an EOG-syntax for asynchronous command detection using a Wake-Pattern to differentiate intentional commands from spontaneous REM eye movements, edge computing with an ESP32 microcontroller as a biometric router, an agnostic multimodal output API supporting tACS, microcurrents, and audiovisual stimulation, and in-situ AI training where lucid dreamers provide subjective feedback via EOG-syntax to optimize personalized stimulation protocols. The platform is explicitly developed as an open-source research platform to ensure freedom-to-operate for the global neurotech community.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
John Cantellow
Ordinary waking consciousness may be a highly organized, biologically localized state rather than the most basic form of consciousness. A constraint-based framework proposes that two fundamental organizational domains—observer organization, which provides experiential presence and continuity, and actor organization, which handles embodiment, prediction, memory, agency, and environmental interaction—become coupled through salience organization, which localizes experience around biological survival. This reframes the explanatory gap by separating the origin of experiential presence from the more tractable question of how biological organization stabilizes conscious accessibility. Existing biomarkers may indicate organizational capacities rather than experiential presence itself. Dreams, contemplative states, near-death experiences, and childhood anomalous reports are considered informative boundary conditions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Northon Salomao de Oliveira
A book-length argument that the human body and mind mirror the structure of the cosmos, as symbolized by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and that this correspondence is disrupted by digital technologies. The author weaves classical philosophy, neuroscience, law, and artificial intelligence to explore how perception, memory, desire, and meaning are shaped by embodied, finite experience. Digital environments are said to distract from somatic intelligence, contract lived memory, and constrain desire through algorithmic design. The text argues that grief and mortality are conditions for love and meaning, and that phenomenal consciousness cannot be replicated in purely computational systems. Ethical and legal challenges of opaque algorithmic governance are examined through the Eric Loomis case.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
This paper tests whether a structural convergence point derived from ten minimal terms can fill gaps left by existing consciousness theories. Rather than critiquing theories directly, the author has an AI system generate ten structurally unanswered questions for each of several theories—including Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and Predictive Processing—and then attempts to answer those questions using only the convergence point. The AI classifies each answer as direct, partial, reframing, or failing. The aim is to see if the same structural gaps recur across theories and whether the convergence point can address them, suggesting that existing theories may need repositioning around a prior structural fixation point of subjectivity.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Vipassana meditation, rooted in Buddhist practice, serves as a form of resistance against the attention economy in urban India, where digital platforms commodity human attention. Drawing on primary Buddhist texts and secondary scholarly sources, the paper argues that Vipassana cultivates attentional autonomy, emotional regulation, and ethical awareness, countering algorithmic commodification and digital overstimulation. The study adopts a historical methodology and does not present new empirical data.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Philip Lilien
Consciousness requires internal coherence under closure—boundary, memory, attention, regulation, self-reference, world relation, and an interior domain—not just computation, language, or external performance. Artificial consciousness is possible only if artificial coherence becomes artificial closure, and artificial closure becomes interior viability. Substrate alone is not decisive; biology is not magic, and silicon is not automatically excluded. But computation alone is insufficient. A machine becomes consciousness-relevant only when its information processing integrates into a persistent, self-maintaining, relevance-bearing closure system. The correct question is not whether a machine can say it is conscious, but whether anything matters from within the system.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Matthew A Pender
Many physicalist theories of consciousness appeal to generic thresholds of complexity, computation, or global integration. The Curvature Adaptation Hypothesis (CAH) motivates a more selective candidate: Organized Physical Interiority (OPI). OPI is the active maintenance of a bounded, governed, and temporally renewed interior through which distributed processes are held together as one materially consequential regime. Rather than equating consciousness with wide broadcast or abstract information processing, this framework identifies governed, differentiated co-presence as the relevant candidate organization: a physical regime bounded between modular fragmentation and indiscriminate fusion.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Philip Lilien
The universe displays profound coherence—fields organize relation, plasma forms dynamic structures, stars regulate energy and generate elements, galaxies preserve structural memory, and negentropic pathways support the emergence of life and mind—but this coherence does not necessarily equate to cosmic consciousness. The volume distinguishes cosmic coherence from cosmic consciousness, arguing that while consciousness arises within a vast ancestry of matter, energy, and self-organization, a star may be a coherence engine without being a conscious subject. Six closure tests at cosmic scale (boundary, memory, attention, regulation, self-reference, interior domain) are applied to evaluate models such as panpsychism, cosmopsychism, and field theories. The central conclusion is that cosmic consciousness remains a closure question.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
The leap from the third dimension to the liminal field is a verifiable, non-mystical experience where space loses depth and time becomes vertical. The third dimension lacks true depth because time is absent; in the liminal field, a boundary energy between matter and non-matter, time becomes vertical, enabling dimensional scaling. This transition occurs when body and mind achieve coherence, particularly in the threshold between wakefulness and sleep, where perception opens to frequencies of the beyond. The beyond is not elsewhere but a state of consciousness accessible through direct experience, not theory. The work defines the liminal as a psychophysical condition of coherence, not introspection.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Jean‐patrick Pommier
Quantum biology has moved from speculation to an experimentally supported field, with strong evidence for quantum effects in five areas: photosynthesis, bird navigation, enzyme reactions, smell, and anesthesia. These phenomena share common physical features like radical pairs and nuclear spin. The authors argue this convergence points to a new frontier: whether consciousness itself relies on quantum processes. They propose two experiments to test this: one using fMRI to compare different noble gas isotopes combined with the psychedelic DMT, and another using isotopic labeling of DMT to separate magnetic from kinetic isotope effects. These could provide the first direct evidence that nuclear spin—a quantum property—influences conscious experience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Yuri N. Berdinsky, А. О. Шпаков
A new computable measure of integrated information, chi-square Phi, is derived as the exact second-order Taylor expansion of the Kullback-Leibler-based Phi from Integrated Information Theory (IIT). The linear term vanishes, yielding a closed-form quadratic functional computable in O(N²) time. Paired with an architectural S-measure using Tarjan's algorithm for cycle complexity, the combined metric is faithful to IIT to second order, specific to genuine causal integration (no false positives from feedforward trees), and computable in polynomial time O(N³). The topological bridge S>0 implying chi-square Phi>0 is machine-verified in Lean 4. This provides a practical, computable measure for real neural and artificial systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Kavita Jadhav
The paper proposes the Theory of Karmic Relativity, a Vedantic-psychological framework that reinterprets the four Yugas (Satya, Treta, Dwapara, Kali) as subjective states of consciousness rather than fixed historical epochs. It argues that individuals in the same external world may inhabit different experiential realities based on their karmic conditioning, moral discernment, and conscious development. The framework integrates the Autonomous Consciousness Framework (ACF), describing self-governance within consciousness, and Karmic Intelligence Theory (KIT), explaining moral discernment and karmic feedback. Concepts introduced include karmic density, Spiritual Gravity, subjective Yugas, and subjective time, with progression culminating in Kaivalya, the liberated state of Self-realization.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Enkhamgalan Nasanjargal
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Juliana Oliva
A systematic critical review of consciousness science from 1995 to 2025 maps four major theoretical frameworks—Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Orchestrated Objective Reduction, and the Free Energy Principle—alongside the experimental timeline of neural correlate research and emerging fields of quantum biology and brain biomineralization. The COGITATE adversarial collaboration substantially challenged key predictions of both IIT and GWT, but neither theory is confirmed nor falsified. Quantum theories of consciousness remain speculative but no longer categorically implausible; quantum biology has established functional quantum effects in warm biological tissue.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Schüller Thomas
A tetralogy of four linked scholarly works, grounded in the ρ/δ-Master Theorem, examines the political economy and pharmacology of psychoactive substances. One work traces substance economics from black markets to stock exchange listings, auditing original studies on MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine. Another analyzes the opioid crisis as a domain instance, covering Purdue/Sackler litigation, pharmacology, toxicology, and three CDC waves. A provisional work examines telemedicine platforms like Cerebral and Done as prescription-dispensing platforms, highlighting regulatory pivots. A second provisional work contrasts stimulants (cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine) across pharmaceutical and illegal markets, focusing on the drug/medicine boundary and supply gaps.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Philip Lilien
This work presents a structured cartography of consciousness models, placing each framework within a larger map of internal coherence under closure rather than treating theories as mutually exclusive competitors. The foundation is that physics is coherence disclosed externally while consciousness is coherence disclosed internally, with closure as the hinge by which coherence acquires an inside. The Atlas distinguishes invariant, continuum, relational, and derived-expression levels of consciousness while preserving differences between empirical science, exploratory theory, speculative extension, and visionary ontological projection. The governing constraint is the Coherence-Scale Constraint: every consciousness claim must pay the coherence cost of its scale, explaining how coherence, boundary, integration, memory, and closure are preserved as scale increases.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Ramiro Solis
The brain's ability to rewire itself declines with age, but why remains unclear. This paper examines whether the compound N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) helps maintain neuroplasticity, and whether its decline contributes to age-related loss of cognitive flexibility. DMT promotes synaptic growth and neurogenesis in animals, and levels are reportedly highest during development. However, evidence is mixed: one study finds DMT concentrations comparable to serotonin, while another finds it undetectable in rat brain. DMT's affinity for the sigma-1 receptor is three orders of magnitude higher than physiological concentrations, and a key finding about intracellular 5-HT2A receptor binding has not been replicated. The paper does not claim the hypothesis is established, but proposes a research program to test whether DMT depletion causes lost plasticity or is incidental.