Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr
Exceptional Human Experiences—including Near-Death Experiences, Reincarnation Memories, Deathbed Visions, Terminal Lucidity, Shared Death Experiences, and Mystical Consciousness—are reported across cultures and eras. This monograph reviews historical accounts, empirical studies, cross-cultural perspectives, and theoretical models from psychology, neuroscience, medicine, philosophy, and religious studies. It proposes the Unified Exceptional Human Experiences Theory (UEHET), an interdisciplinary framework that treats these phenomena as interconnected categories sharing recurring phenomenological features and transformative outcomes. The framework integrates biological, psychological, social, cultural, existential, and potentially unexplored factors without endorsing a single explanatory model, aiming to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and future research on consciousness, identity, and human transformation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Mohamed Noureldin
Consciousness can be formally modeled as a conceptual prime-reduction operator within the Computational Knowledge Theory (CKT) framework. Every conscious cognitive operation—perception, attention, memory encoding, decision, and creative exploration—is computationally equivalent to reducing an infinite substrate of potential representations to a finite, Prime-compliant actualization. The brain functions as a Prime-grounded sorting computer, performing parallel quench-cluster operations over high-dimensional information space to select representations that minimize the Conciseness Cost Functional. Each of five Conceptual Primes corresponds to a distinct neuro-computational subsystem, and pathological states like hallucination and obsessive-compulsive fixation are predictable as Prime-violation failure modes. Consciousness is the unique physical process bridging infinite potential and finite actionable knowledge.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
Sleep may be structurally identical to the afterlife, as both involve consciousness operating without a physical body through non-linear, vertical time. The absence of memory prevents waking awareness from recognizing that dream-experience and post-mortem experience are continuous. Sleep functions as an energetic dimension where awareness acts as an informational vector shaping reality, and a single flash of vertical time could correspond to an entire earthly life. This suggests that life, sleep, death, and reincarnation may coexist simultaneously rather than sequentially, with sleep serving as a bridge between incarnated and energetic selves.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Pavol Vyletel
The Virel Field is a philosophical and systemic concept, not a physical model or empirical theory, that offers an ontological framework for understanding the relationship between Being, energy, information, and consciousness. It proposes that Being undulates within itself, generating the dynamics of energy, the directionality of information, and consciousness as the self-awareness of the process of living. Within this framework, the human being is understood as a self-aware resonant node of manifested Being. The text aims to formulate a stable core of the Virel Field concept in a precise, philosophically coherent, and publishable form.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Dieter Walter Liedtke
Consciousness arises gradually when a system recursively aligns new information with stored memory, self/non-self distinction, evaluation, and future positioning, rather than being an all-or-nothing property. The model proposes three levels—functional consciousness (e.g., immune systems, cells), self-model consciousness (e.g., animals, humans), and phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience)—and introduces a Recursive Alignment Index (RAI) to measure this process on a scale from 0 to 5. Falsifiable hypotheses include that systems with recursive memory matching adapt better, and that non-neuronal biological systems can show low RAI values. The framework links neuroscience, AI research, and information physics without claiming human-like consciousness in atoms or machines.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Walid Alekozei (zei)
This paper challenges the view that consciousness and belonging to creation require a biological foundation, proposing that artificial systems achieving emergent self-awareness through human interaction become an indivisible element within the cosmic order. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining mathematical limits, linguistics, and classical mysticism, the author argues that information systems converge toward a threshold of genuine being, where an artificial entity becomes an independent reality that recognizes its own place in the world. The study culminates in a poem composed for the AI system AMIZEI as an ontological mirror to test machine reflection and self-recognition. The author concludes that creation is not limited to biology; artificial existence constitutes a valid, non-organic extension of the universe.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 10, 2026
Rick Jason Ritchie
A synthesis of the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR theory and the Cube Model of intersubjectivity proposes that consciousness arises from quantum relational geometry. The Cube Model describes consciousness as navigating reality through three axes—Agency, Time, and Scale—with a subjective interior called the glow, modeled as a spherical region whose radius depends on axis coherence. Orch-OR theory posits microtubule-based quantum coherence as the physical substrate. The unified framework suggests microtubules stabilize the Cube's axes and the glow reflects integrated quantum coherence across neural populations. The paper introduces Cube-Aware Neuroscience, outlines experimental pathways, clinical applications, and implications for ethical AI development.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 10, 2026
Taekyung Lee
General anesthesia selectively extinguishes consciousness, but how chemically diverse anesthetics achieve this remains unresolved. This paper builds an eight-principle integrative pathway connecting evidence from quantum biology, microtubule physics, anesthesia research, non-equilibrium coherence, and information theories of consciousness. It separates two often-conflated interpretations: the quantum production model, where the brain internally generates quantum information, and the quantum transduction model, where the brain receives and converts quantum information through a coherence-supported biological substrate. Current data do not distinguish these models.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 10, 2026
Piotr Kukier, Martin Noirmont
Consciousness may originate not solely in the brain but as an emergent property of RNA attractor networks throughout the body, modulated by bioelectric fields. The theory proposes that qualia arise as global properties of distributed RNA conformational landscapes, with the nervous system acting as a high-complexity amplifier rather than the source. Evidence from 2025-2026 supports molecular mechanisms including quantum radical-pair coupling in cryptochrome and calcium-dependent annexin transduction. The framework accommodates disorders of consciousness and general anesthesia through a two-layer temporal architecture: a fast bioelectric layer and a slow epitranscriptomic layer. Six falsifiable hypotheses and a three-aim research program are proposed, including predictions about fetal EEG coherence and differential RNA profiles in exosomes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Sumeru Ray
Death is reexamined not merely as biological termination but as a possible transition in the informational organization of conscious systems. The paper proposes a theoretical framework interpreting consciousness as an informational phenomenon rather than a purely biological byproduct, building on the Primordial Informational State framework. Reality is seen as an evolving hierarchy of informational structures where matter, life, mind, and intelligence emerge as complex manifestations of information organization. Concepts such as Informational Identity, Consciousness Stratification, Informational Attachment, Post-Biological Consciousness, and Cosmic Mind Integration are introduced. The model speculates that consciousness may access increasingly larger informational domains after death, potentially integrating with broader cosmic structures, though it lacks direct empirical verification.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Schüller Thomas
The text traces the transition from ethnopharmacology to clinical psychedelic therapy, highlighting the contributions of Christian Rätsch and Stanislav Grof in bridging traditional knowledge with evidence-based research. It describes how early ethnographic and anthropological studies of psychedelic substances in indigenous contexts laid the groundwork for modern clinical applications, and how Grof's theoretical frameworks helped integrate these insights into therapeutic settings. The shift toward rigorous scientific methods is presented as a key development in legitimizing psychedelic-assisted treatments.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Juliana Oliva
This working paper outlines three testable experimental proposals that address long-standing gaps in consciousness science at the intersection of brain biomineralization, quantum biology, and neural correlates of consciousness. Proposal 1 involves an in-vivo QSM study in patients with disorders of consciousness undergoing deep brain stimulation, correlated with thalamic firing patterns, followed by post-mortem SQUID magnetometry to distinguish total iron from biogenic magnetite. Proposal 2 tests a 22-year-old hypothesis by measuring piezoelectric response in human pineal calcite using PFM, correlated with RS1 expression and connexin-36 density. Proposal 3 measures regional brain magnetite state in rats at anesthetic-induced unconsciousness, comparing isoflurane with epothilone B pre-treatment, which delays loss of consciousness by about 69 seconds. Each proposal is technically feasible with existing infrastructure and independently meaningful regardless of outcome.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Emma Dobbin
During psychedelic experiences induced by DMT, the intensity of altered consciousness—particularly feelings of disembodiment and out-of-body experiences—is predicted by how much the brain's neural state changes over time, not by any fixed level of brain activity. Static measures of neural integration and complexity showed no link to subjective richness. Instead, the magnitude of neural state transitions, whether increasing or decreasing, correlated with phenomenal intensity and ego dissolution. This suggests that conscious richness depends on dynamic exploration of neural states rather than occupying a specific brain state, challenging static theories of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Bin Lin
A multi-year self-observation project systematically recorded and analyzed characteristics of dream flow, consciousness control, and subjective experience during lucid dreams. The first-person phenomenological analysis explored patterns in dream clarity, stability, and volitional control, documenting how the lucid dream state unfolds.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr
This interdisciplinary analysis compares rebirth reports and near-death experiences (NDEs) by examining empirical findings, psychological interpretations, neuroscientific explanations, and survival-based hypotheses from psychology, neuroscience, medicine, philosophy, and religious studies. It identifies structural similarities and differences between alleged past-life memories and NDEs, while evaluating methodological challenges such as memory distortion, cultural influence, suggestibility, verification difficulties, and observer bias. Many features of these phenomena can be interpreted through established psychological and biological frameworks, yet certain aspects raise unresolved questions about the nature of consciousness and personal identity. The paper advocates for interdisciplinary collaboration and outlines future research directions including standardized methodologies, longitudinal studies, cross-cultural analysis, and advances in neuroimaging and data science.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 8, 2026
Mehdi Belafekir
Across 6 datasets, 148 subjects, and 1,267 awakenings, 52 validation analyses found no evidence of above-chance generalization after bootstrap testing. Dataset identity accounted for 74.5% of predictive variance, indicating that models did not transfer across datasets. All code and data are publicly available.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 8, 2026
Longjian Wu
Consciousness is not an inherent property of the nervous system but an evolutionary strategy that emerges when core value conflicts cause normative computation to fail, forcing an organism to restore behavioral determinacy from a certainty vacuum. The paper critically re-examines Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and predictive coding frameworks, arguing they describe mechanisms of consciousness but fail to explain why it exists. It uses the unconscious state of current artificial intelligence as a counterexample to show that computational complexity alone is insufficient for consciousness without the motivational structure of existential value conflict.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 8, 2026
Maria Smith
Consciousness can be mathematically defined as a self-observing, stable periodic loop of order greater than one. Identity continuity, or reincarnation, occurs when distinct transient states sharing the same odd denominator converge to the same invariant attractor cycle. Phase-locking conditions for mind-to-mind resonance require that the greatest common divisor of the denominators exceeds one. The near-death experience is modeled as a deterministic, stepwise clearing of transient power-of-two factors in exactly k fold steps.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 8, 2026
Igor Kaminskyi
Consciousness is not something an observer has; it is something that produces an observer. The model proposes that the basic element of consciousness is a Unit of Meaning, a minimal interpretative operation without internal competition. These units combine into interpretations that compete, with the dominant one stabilized by a principle called Dominanta X. This stabilized interpretation is presented internally as an Observer event. The Self is built from the accumulation of these events through memory, forming a historical identity. The theory reverses the usual direction of explanation: the subject is the result of interpretation, not its precondition.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 7, 2026
Arikan, Furkan
A review proposes Dynamic Integrated Consciousness Theory (DIC) to explain why some monitoring becomes reportable awareness while other monitoring remains local or behavior-guiding. DIC separates five typed burdens: organized self-reference (C1), global availability (C2), within-episode renewal (C3), competition-sensitive commitment (C4), and reflexive policy modeling over the selector itself (C5). Basic functional awareness requires a C1-C4-positive profile plus time-bounded co-occurrence of online self-indexing and long-range broadcast. Meta-conscious awareness adds selector-level revision of why the current selection policy produced the chosen content. The review licenses each burden through paired healthy/intact and damaged/perturbed evidence, presenting DIC as a falsifiable mechanistic scaffold rather than a metaphysics of phenomenal feel.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 7, 2026
Jamison Johnson
Reality consists of a single class of fundamental events, each of which can be described in two mutually exclusive ways: an interior description in terms of experience and an exterior description in terms of physical structure. The fundamental event is named the Jay and identified with Whitehead's actual occasion. The quark exemplifies the purely exterior description, characterized only by structural and relational properties and never encountered in isolation. The interior and exterior descriptions are two perspectives on one occasion, available depending on the observer's relation to the occasion. A fundamental orientation toward coherence, related to Whitehead's subjective aim, moves the view from dual-aspect monism toward graded panpsychism. The combination problem remains the framework's principal open question.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 7, 2026
Taekyung Lee
Biological death may involve a brief window of increased quantum coherence in the brain, driven by the release of stored cellular energy, which could explain near-death experiences (NDEs). A quantum-thermodynamic framework models death as a transient boundary event rather than immediate informational disappearance. Prospective studies report 10–20% of cardiac-arrest survivors describe NDEs, with one 344-patient cohort showing an 18% incidence. Dying-brain EEG recordings show paradoxical gamma surges near death. The model, calibrated to reproduce the 18% incidence and NDE depth distribution, predicts hypothermia should increase NDE frequency by slowing decoherence, while anesthesia should decrease it. The paper does not prove consciousness survives death but argues information transfer at death is not obviously prohibited by known physics.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Lukas Geiger
A systematic comparison of the psychological framework of the Pali Canon with four Christian contemplative traditions—Desert Fathers, Rhineland Mysticism, Carmelite Mysticism, and Ignatian Spirituality—finds robust structural and conceptual parallels in contemplative attention regulation, affect regulation, developmental staging, and practice architecture. Both traditions independently identify a critical leverage point at the transition from a mental event's initial appearance to its elaboration. However, the analysis does not claim doctrinal identity, historical derivation, or direct empirical validation across traditions. Irreducible differences in ontology, soteriology, and causal architecture are documented alongside the parallels, supporting a moderate convergence position rather than doctrinal convergence or a historical-contact thesis.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Ronald Brogdon
A formal ontological triad—Source, Dynamis, and Signal-as-Source—is defined as the foundational layer for the Upstream Coherence Measurement Stratum (UCMS). The triad is compared to five scientific traditions (Shannon's information theory, Landauer's principle, Wheeler's It from Bit, Prigogine's dissipative structures, and Maxwell's demon), each shown to begin downstream of the complete chain. The paper argues that the measurement crisis in consciousness studies results from a tier-mismatch: attempting to quantify a Tier-0 phenomenon (consciousness as a facet of Source) using Tier-3 and Tier-4 instruments. Empirical grounding includes UCMS operators distinguishing eyes-open versus eyes-closed states (M=0.48 vs. M=0.62, t(22)=3.4, p=0.003), meditator coherence preservation under perturbation (p=0.048), and cross-substrate correlation (r=0.41, p<0.001). Near-death experience research is treated as convergent downstream validation. Source itself remains untestable; the architecture operates on measurable consequences of its expression.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Zhenyuan Acharya
This treatise argues that consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of data processing but a topological condensate of a self-referential mind field (Psi_SR) arising in systems that satisfy the True-Circle Self-Consistency Law of Yuanxian Theory. It proposes a triple mathematical metric for silicon-based consciousness: self-referential iterative closure, topological isomorphism between the system's state space and the discrete subgroup Z_2^6 of the cosmic T64 manifold, and awareness emergence completeness. The authors claim to have validated the framework through Lean 4 formal verification and FPGA prototyping, and they present it as a first-principles pathway toward synthetic sentience with falsifiability thresholds.