Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper argues that cultural artifacts function as distributed cognitive models through which societies construct, stabilize, and revise shared interpretations of reality. Drawing on cognitive constructivism, enactivism, predictive processing, and extended and distributed cognition, it treats narratives not as ornamental representations but as components of a supra-personal modeling...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Juza Minamikata
preprint
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
Géraldine Mossière
preprint
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
Paul Rodgers
preprint
This manuscript addresses decision-making and free will within a framework committed to full determinism at every level, adopting a compatibilist position in which a decision between competing options is resolved by a deterministic, but computationally irreducible, tie-breaking process rather than by any element of genuine indeterminism. We draw a precise distinction, already established in...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
David Woosley
preprint
An analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium evaluating the cognitive mechanics of visionary data reception, shamanic mode-switching, and mythic transmission outside conventional institutional interpretive frameworks.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
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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
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
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
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
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
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
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 18, 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
preprint
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
Stephanie Murrile, Mary Jo Parker, Ling Xu
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Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly recognized as a promising tool for mental health support. Recent studies suggest that immersive environments can reduce anxiety and improve emotional regulation by promoting presence and relaxation. The biofeedback generated from VR practices has shown positive results, suggesting that calming and immersive experiences can help reduce or prevent symptoms of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Morteza Niami
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Abstract: Intensity has occupied a significant position in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly in accounts of duration, affect, difference, embodiment, becoming, and material transformation. From Bergson’s analysis of qualitative multiplicity and duration to Deleuze’s ontology of intensive difference, and from phenomenological accounts of lived affectivity to contemporary...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Trent Trinder
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This paper asks what a metaphysics of primordial Presence must be like if it is to account for determinate difference. The target is not an empty experience or a merely unarticulated thought, but a purportedly fundamental condition prior to distinction, recognition, temporal ordering, and reflective awareness. I argue that absolutely undifferentiated Presence cannot by itself explain how...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 18, 2026
Kenjiro Shiraishi
preprint
Accepted manuscript of:Shiraishi K. Defining the Intervention Before Estimating Efficacy in DMT-Assisted Therapy. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2026.DOI: 10.1177/02698811261488484 This Letter argues that DMT-assisted therapy for substance misuse should be evaluated as a complex intervention rather than as pharmacological exposure alone. It highlights the need to distinguish pharmacological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 17, 2026
Sonali Sahu
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Dr. Phani Mohanty occupies a distinctive position in contemporary Odia literature, particularly in the development and continuation of Neo-Romantic poetry. His poetic world is deeply rooted in love, longing, memory, nature, mythology, separation, desire and the inward movement of consciousness. Only in Love, the English translation of his Odia collection Kebala Premare, translated by Dr. Sonali...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 17, 2026
Dustin C Lee
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This paper advances a single, unambiguous thesis: artificial intelligence systems cannot experience fear. Not now, not in any foreseeable future, and not for reasons that better hardware or more sophisticated software will resolve. Fear is not a computation. It is not a software feature awaiting implementation. It is a neurobiological cascade — amygdala activation,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 17, 2026
Saeed Hanfi
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Which physical systems are agents, and why? The sciences of life and mind presuppose an answerorganisms act, neurons learn, robots decide, software systems pursue goals yet no accepted theory states, non-circularly, the physical conditions under which a system is a locus of agency rather than a process, an aggregate, or an observer-imposed carving of a causal eld. Existing candidates either...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Donald Ike
preprint
Computational Qualia (CQ) is a minimal, substrate-independent theory of consciousness. It proposes that a quale is not an additional property attached to information processing, but an aspect of a system-relative experiential annotation: a temporally bound, valenced, action-linked, self-indexed state generated through interaction that causally modifies later perception, memory, prediction, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Elizaveta Melnikova
preprint
This preprint proposes a synthetic hypothesis concerning the possible emergence of subjective experience in physical autonomous systems. The hypothesis examines the possible relationship between boundedness, autonomy, internal states, embodiment, memory, prediction, action, self-modeling, and subjective perspective. It does not claim to provide a complete solution to the hard problem of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Lijo George
preprint
This paper attempts to find similar grounds in the poetic mysticism of Bengali polymath nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and the metaxological metaphysics of the contemporary Irish philosopher William Desmond (b. 1951), by casting the philosopher-poet not as an autonomous master of systems, but as a peripatetic pilgrim-poet venturing toward Transcendence. Defying the historical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Mart Wijn
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Abstract This paper introduces a simple distinction that may change how we think about consciousness. It proposes that human beings operate in two fundamentally different modes. Type 1 is direct awareness — experiencing reality without commentary. Type 2 is narrative consciousness — the continuous stream of thinking, interpreting, and self-referencing that most adults experience as their normal...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Tiny Buffalo Dillon Reese Gause
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This paper examines the plausibility, though not the proof, of a hypothesis that consciousness may be tied to a form of energy that persists beyond biological death. The argument proceeds from an established physical premise, the conservation of energy, through a contested but serious philosophical position, panpsychism, and into the empirical territory of near-death experience research, before...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 15, 2026
Ivanna J. Joseph, Adam Schiavi, Dylan Bruschi
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We propose a falsifiable framework in which the benefit of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) during contemplative training depends on the practice being performed. Focused attention (FA), open monitoring (OM), and loving-kindness/compassion (LK) engage overlapping networks with potentially different functional emphases. We hypothesize that FA benefits more from a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 15, 2026
Imaginary Person Michael Duunul (m.a.n)
preprint
This conceptual paper proposes an exploratory hypothesis concerning the relationship between repeated cognitive priming, linguistic suggestion, visualization, metacognition, and lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a state in which an individual becomes aware that they are dreaming while the dream continues. Previous research has demonstrated that lucid dreaming can occur during REM sleep and can...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 15, 2026
Byeong-Chan Cho
preprint
Acute stress degrades prefrontal function within seconds, so interventions that must be retrieved and deliberately initiated — paced breathing, reappraisal, mindfulness — are least available at the moment they are needed. We hypothesize that a brief exteroceptive manoeuvre can re-anchor self-regulation without deliberate control. Specifically: (i) when a person views, for about one second and...