Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 14, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
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This article explores, as a working hypothesis and not as a validated protocol, whether and how the symbolic structure of the five Tibetan chakras — colors, visualizations, syllables — can offer insights for psychological practice. The operation is conducted by clearly distinguishing between: the description of the Tibetan contemplative tradition, reported in its original context; a possible...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 14, 2026
Shaun Robinson
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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 14, 2026
Prafful Singi, Mukul Pal Chowdhury, Rajesh Arora
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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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 13, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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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,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 13, 2026
John Cantellow
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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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 12, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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Life, Ambition and Dissolution जीवन, महत्वाकांक्षा और विलय English Description This work is an Independent Philosophical Research paper exploring the relationship between life, ambition, desire, identity, bondage, renunciation, spirituality, and liberation. The research proposes a conceptual distinction between ordinary desire and ambition. Ambition is examined not merely as the pursuit of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
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This paper reconstructs a conceptual shift from the original theory of autopoiesis to later enactive approaches to cognition and experience. The central claim is that the transition is not a straightforward deduction from autopoiesis. Maturana’s identification of life with cognition expands the concept of cognition from the outset. Later developments add embodied action, autonomy, adaptivity,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
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No direct evidence for sensory perceptions during near-death experiences in palliative care specifically excluding pathological causes was identified. However, end-of-life dreams and visions are common and usually comforting in hospice settings, emphasizing the need for sensitive interpretation by healthcare professionals.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
Roberto Mucciarini
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This essay develops a methodological proposal complementary to the research programme outlined in CEFA – Proposta di indagine. Taking the hard problem of consciousness as its starting point, it distinguishes subjective experience, the data through which we study it, and hypotheses concerning its origin. An examination of selected neuroscientific studies clarifies why the limitations of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
John Hansen
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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die Spiegelhypothese vor, einen spekulativen interdisziplinären Ansatz, der die Möglichkeit untersucht, dass Reflexion ein grundlegendes Organisationsprinzip der Wirklichkeit darstellen könnte. Die Hypothese geht davon aus, dass Reflexion, in ihrem allgemeinsten Sinne verstanden als Wechselwirkung, Rückkopplung, Repräsentation und Selbstbezüglichkeit von Zuständen...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
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Near-death experiences in palliative care predominantly appear distinct from typical hallucinations due to their comforting, meaningful, and spiritual nature. Proper recognition and interpretation by healthcare professionals can enhance end-of-life care quality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
Roberto Mucciarini
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This essay examines the origins and nature of human consciousness from the perspective of Illumanesimo, taking the critical capacity and the relationship between experience, meaning, and value as its starting points. Consciousness is understood as composite: biological and cultural conditions combine with a qualitative contribution attributed to the individual Spirit, termed CEFA. By...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 10, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Meditation and mindfulness practices now reach clinical, educational, organizational, and digital settings, and a growing literature documents difficult, distressing, and occasionally impairing experiences associated with them. Their existence is no longer seriously disputable; their prevalence, causal attribution, and determinants remain unsettled. This critical integrative review examines...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 10, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
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Functionalism is among the most influential positions in the philosophy of mind. Its central idea is that mental states are determined not by their material constitution but by their functional or causal role. This gives rise to the possibility of multiple realization: if the same functional organization can be realized in biological and artificial systems, then, in principle, the same mental...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 9, 2026
Dipendra Nath Subedi, Rajesh Arora
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Moral values play an important role in shaping responsible, ethical, and socially constructive behavior among college students. During higher education, students experience significant academic, social, and personal changes that may influence their attitudes, values, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships. Meditation and spirituality have received increasing attention as approaches...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 8, 2026
Archana Masih, Indu Bala, Manpreet Kaur
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Background: College life is a psychologically demanding transition characterised by academic overload, examination pressure, financial strain, and, for nursing and allied health students, additional stress arising from clinical placements. These pressures are consistently associated with elevated perceived stress, poor sleep quality, and reduced emotional well-being. Mindfulnessbased nursing...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 8, 2026
Sudin Shrestha, Yuvraj Aryal, Devendra Panta et al.
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Integrated Information Theory (IIT) identifies consciousness with the intrinsic, irreducible cause–effect power of a physical system, quantified by integrated information Φ, and is therefore often applied to artificial neural networks (ANNs) via scalable proxies. Our central finding is that such proxies are not currently reliable enough to support the comparisons they are used for. We test one...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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The hypothesis that consciousness corresponds to integrated information predicts that measures of integration computed over the whole physiological system co-vary with the level of consciousness. Sleep provides an expert-scored axis from wakefulness through deep non-rapid-eye-movement sleep to rapid-eye-movement sleep. In 153 polysomnographic nights from a public cohort (78 subjects; two...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Gavin Jeffrey van de Wal
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Human behavior often remains stable despite insight, reflection, and conscious intention. Existing psychological and cognitive accounts typically explain this persistence through habit, automaticity, implicit processing, predictive mechanisms, affective regulation, or unresolved psychological content. While these frameworks capture important aspects of human behavior, they do not fully explain...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Rebekka Waldesruh
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This chapter focuses on the central core of the so-called “Dark Night of the Soul” and unfolds its inner structure through the classical distinction between the night of the senses and the night of the spirit, as described by John of the Cross. In contrast to a schematic or linear model, the Dark Night is not understood here as a step-by-step developmental sequence, but as a dynamic and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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Rationale: Increased neural complexity under psychedelics is replicated, but the temporal structure carrying it — and the design choices that decide what a "complexity increase" means — remain contested: window-level reports treat correlated windows as independent; cross-dataset contrasts confound pharmacology with protocol. Objectives: To test, in public EEG datasets with pre-registered...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Jiaping Wang
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Existing theories of consciousness remain largely static: they describe irreducibility, binary access, or steady-state convergence, but rarely how conscious states switch, collapse, and rebuild over time. Under three constraints, namely finite resources, non-equilibrium maintenance, and discrete input, this paper constructs a minimal dynamical model in which temporal span and reconstruction...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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Consciousness science routinely operationalizes theoretical constructs — integration, complexity, coupling, level — as measurable proxies, and then tests hypotheses about the constructs through the proxies. This chain is only as strong as its weakest translation. We present a post-execution proxy-fidelity audit framework, developed and applied across 18 consecutive research cycles of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper proposes a novel approach to understanding consciousness by constructing an ontological framework – a first-person "ontology" – derived from simulating the information processing mechanisms within biological neural systems. The core claim is that consciousness, fundamentally, is an emergent property of complex information processing. We advocate for a bottom-up approach, utilizing...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper presents a formal model of consciousness, aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical neuroscience and rigorous mathematical analysis. The model leverages the principles of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to quantify the degree of integrated information (Φ) within a system, and employs Bayesian inference to dynamically update beliefs based on sensory input. The core of the model...