Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Marcel Krüger
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This conceptual paper examines whether the long-term transition toward interstellar civilization may require not only more capable spacecraft, but a transformation of the traveler itself. Human intelligence emerged in biological organisms adapted to terrestrial conditions. Rather than assuming that this biological form remains fixed indefinitely, the paper explores possible transitions from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Luna da Silva Nascimento
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Independent secondary computational research conducted on open-access longitudinal fMRI data (OpenNeuro ds006072). Preprint deposited on Zenodo. Full reproducible Riemannian pipeline available on GitLab.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Christian Gajewski
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This paper introduces epiphanesthesia as a candidate third functional category of interoceptive content, distinct from physiological homeostatic signals and from emotional substrates. Epiphanesthesia is defined by three necessary criteria: the signal indexes structural convergence between previously unintegrated representations rather than affective valence or homeostatic state; it precedes the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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DESCRIPTION / ABSTRACT: Abstract: Vedanta 2.1 develops the central problem left open by Vedanta 2.0: what is meant by the Witness (draṣṭā/sākṣin), and can witnessing awareness be reduced to another mental representation? The inquiry begins neither from a metaphysical conclusion nor from a neuroscientific claim. It begins from an ordinary phenomenological possibility: thoughts, memories,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper investigates the potential of nonlinear time-delay networks (NTDNs) in simulating aspects of human consciousness. The core claim is that by constructing networks with intricate nonlinear time-delay dependencies, it may be possible to model fundamental features of consciousness, such as subjective experience and contextual awareness. The proposed mechanism involves designing an NTDN...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Jonghoon Lee
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Psychoanalytic and phenomenological accounts of anxiety distinguish between raw bodily disquiet and top-down symbolic structures—morality, faith, and meaning—that subjects erect to contain it. We propose a neuropsychoanalytic model mapping this distinction onto two interacting neural registers: a bottom-up interoceptive circuit centered on the anterior insula and Salience Network (SN), and a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
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Consciousness science faces an unusual problem: every report, measurement, experiment, model, and theory used to investigate consciousness is itself accessed through consciousness, while the conscious states of other systems are never directly available to an external observer. This manuscript develops a theory-neutral mathematical framework for determining what consciousness science can...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Skylar Smith
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Contemporary theories of consciousness privilege recurrent processing, global availability, integrated causal structure, higher-order representation, predictive world modeling, viability-weighted control, and other mechanisms. Active Self-Presence (ASP) asks whether at least some of these mechanisms are better understood not as rival phenomenal causes at the same explanatory level, but as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Nadji Belkheiri
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This paper critically examines the inferential jump from empirical physics to physicalist ontology and scientism. Moving beyond traditional self-defeat critiques, it engages directly with contemporary strong scientism defenses (Rosenberg, Carroll) and evaluates the pragmatic rejoinder. The paper develops two key original arguments: (1) the hard problem of consciousness as a persistent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Juza Minamikata
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Consciousness research routinely moves between neural activity, representational content, conscious perception, phenomenal unity, and subject attribution. Yet evidence obtained for one of these analytical positions does not automatically warrant claims at another. This paper formulates this problem as the attribution-transfer problem and proposes the Local Bridge Restraint (LBR) as a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
D. Dilhani Indrachapa
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The rapid development of technical power and globalization in the twenty first century have enabled mankind to enjoy unprecedented material comforts but at the same time have presented him with complex social and psychological problems. Young people are experiencing significant mental health issues, mainly stress and depression, in a very competitive society today. This paper investigates...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Moupiya Dutta
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Abstract This practice-as-research (PaR) investigation examines the somato-cognitive architecture of solo Bharatanatyam, focusing on the real-time execution of split consciousness (Saṃvit-Dvaidha), motor automatization, and multi-character role assumption (Pātrāveśa) on an empty stage. Integrating traditional Sanskrit dramaturgical treatises (Nāṭyaśāstra, Abhinayadarpaṇa) with enactive 4E...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
Francisco Javier Meléndez García
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This paper advances a contemporary, neo-Stoic framework for reinterpreting the myth of Sisyphus, transitioning from the traditional existential framework of the absurd toward an ascetic process of metaphysical refinement. Traditionally conceptualized as a tragedy of causal incarceration and futile consciousness, the punitive landscape of Tartarus is here reframed as a structured, pedagogical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 26, 2026
Leonardo V. da Silva
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This paper separates phenomenal consciousness from functional selfhood and proposes theContinuous Process Hypothesis (CPH): persistent personal identity in artificial agents emergesas a property of a continuous temporal process coupling (i) autobiographical memory thatcausally constrains future states, (ii) an explicit self-model organizing goals and self-referentialinterpretation, and (iii)...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Two companion papers examined the Western scientific and Buddhist analyses of consciousness separately. This paper puts them together and argues that the common framing is wrong: across much of their range the traditions address different questions sharing an English word. The argument maps referents. Consciousness science divides its object into level, content, access, and phenomenality,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Frederick A.P. van der Sypt
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Abstract In contemporary, predominantly cognitively oriented society, many lack interoceptive literacy: the ability to recognize the underlying bodily signals of emotions, thoughts, and behavior. Because both clients and therapists are shaped by this societal framework, psychotherapeutic interventions risk remaining at a purely intellectual level, where cognitive restructuring occurs without...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Juza Minamikata
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Consciousness research contains several distinct transfer problems: from reports or neural signals to target states, from target states to consciousness classifications, from coarse to fine grains, and from shared classifications to claims of common underlying structure. This paper argues that these problems instantiate a single methodological restriction, the Non-Inheritance Principle: warrant...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Kevin Rauter
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This thesis investigates the mescaline experience as a peculiar and radical form of phenomenological reduction. It begins by examining the constitution of the human lived world through Wittgenstein's concept of Weltbild and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and embodiment. The argument distinguishes between a pre-predicative, perceptual “first world” and a linguistically and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Ángel Carrasco, Juan Carlos Montañez
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The Neuroperceptual Horizon Hypothesis proposes that the range of physical phenomena an organism can functionally incorporate into experience is constrained by receptors, transduction mechanisms, neural integration, learning, and technological tools. We extend this framework through the Quantum Neuroperceptual Horizon Hypothesis (QNPH), which examines how information originating in phenomena...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
S Dwivedi
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Shiv Charcha is an emergent religio-spiritual movement centered around the idea that Śiva, the Hindu god, popularly known as Mahādeva, is a universal guru ("jagatguru"). Adherents of Shiv Charcha refer to Śiva as "Śivaguru". It was founded in the 1980s by Saheb Shri Harindranand and involves organisation of charchā (discussions) based on the revelations of Śiva's "jagatguru" form to the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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A companion paper argued that consciousness science makes explanatory claims of five distinguishable strengths, and that the strongest—why physical organization is accompanied by experience—remains open. This paper asks a prior question: what is referred to when Buddhist sources speak of consciousness? The answer is not one thing. Early Buddhist analysis treats viññāṇa as constitutively...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Where is consciousness located, and how is it generated? These are routinely treated as two formulations of one problem, yet they assert different things and rest on different evidence. This paper proposes a five-level taxonomy of explanatory claims—location, correlation, causal dependence, constitution, and generation—and uses it as an analytical instrument throughout. Each level is logically...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Ana María Cáseres Andrade, Benito Mecías Coyago Inga, Walter Paul Sampedro Teneda et al.
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La lectora constituye una barrera en el aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera, debido a su influencia sobre la ansiedad, la comprensión, la motivación y la regulación emocional. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar los cambios en los niveles de ansiedad lectora después de aplicar ejercicios de mindfulness integrados a actividades de lectura en estudiantes de Eduplanet SAS. Se empleó...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Sidário Rodrigues Malheiros-junior
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This theoretical manuscript develops an energetic formalization of Antonio Damasio’s architecture of selfhood. Damasio’s distinctions among the proto-self, core self, and autobiographical self are converted from a descriptive taxonomy into a conditional and falsifiable model of functional endurance. For each functional layer, usable free-energy delivery is compared with time-dependent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Arvind Vedwan, Akansha Verma
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The contemporary educational landscape increasingly recognizes the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) for the holistic development of students. Pro-social behaviour—actions intended to benefit others, such as helping, sharing, and cooperating—is a cornerstone of a healthy society and individual well-being. However, school children today face numerous stressors, including academic...