Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Metin Doğan
preprint
The Dream-Mediated Awakening Hypothesis (DMAH) is a conceptual and testable hypothesis concerning the transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness. DMAH proposes that every successful transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness may involve a transient state of subjective, internally generated experience immediately before or during awakening. This experience need not take the form of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Arvind Vedwan, Akansha Verma
preprint
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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Marc S. Weidner
preprint
Research on artificial consciousness often begins with a binary question that conflates architecture, function, persistence, agency, and phenomenality. This paper develops a conditional framework for asking whether a bounded artificial process could instantiate a transient phenomenal episode without thereby constituting a persistent person. H1a states only a conditional non-entailment: even a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Francis Smith
preprint
This preprint develops a state-space account of phenomenal character in which conscious experience depends not only on the configuration presently realized, but also on the represented structure of transitions available from that configuration. The framework distinguishes current phenomenal configuration, external anchoring, and a prospective transition field describing the topology of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Benjamin Pham
preprint
This paper examines dimethyltryptamine (DMT) as one of the most unusual and scientifically provocative psychoactive substances ever studied. It traces DMT’s history from Indigenous Amazonian ayahuasca traditions and Richard Spruce’s nineteenth-century observations to twentieth-century psychedelic science, countercultural fascination, prohibition, and the modern revival of clinical research. The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 22, 2026
Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim
preprint
Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has intensified a familiar question: can machines think, understand, or possess consciousness? These questions, however, often assume that the meaning of terms such as understanding, representation, and meaning is sufficiently stable across biological and artificial systems. This paper argues that such an assumption may be premature....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 22, 2026
Arlindo L. Oliveira
preprint
The nature of subjective experience remains one of the deepest unsolved problems in science. Phenomena such as sentience, self-awareness, phenomenal consciousness, and the sensation of free will have occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries, yet they remain unexplained despite substantial progress in neuroscience, biology, and computer science. The central challenge of explaining how...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Loren Dyer-Peters
preprint
Across global mythologies, the turtle (Testudines) represents foundational stability, primal wisdom, and grounding connection to the earth. Consequently, when a traditionally silent reptile emits an abrupt, vocal-like discharge ("scream" or high-pressure pulmonary expulsion), it fundamentally subverts cultural expectations. This paper provides a historical, shamanic, and superstitious research...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Charles Richard Walker (c. Rich)
preprint
Functional consciousness is defined as an emergent organizational property of a system that maintains a persistent boundary distinguishing itself from its environment, retains information across time, generates predictions, constructs self-models, and adaptively regulates its behavior to preserve its organization. It does not require consciousness as a fundamental or biological property, nor...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Casian Stefan
preprint
We argue that the phenomenal/access distinction should not automatically be treated as a division between two components or levels of a mental state. Information can become accessible in different relations to action, memory, decision, and report, and these relations are partly constituted by the environments in which cognitive activity is organized. Linguistic report represents a particularly...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Ivan Temprado-Ordiaz
preprint
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has emerged as a promising therapeutic candidate for treatment-resistant neuropathic pain, offering a paradigm shift from transient palliative symptom masking toward disease-modifying neuroplastic reorganization. Preclinical and clinical evidence demonstrates that MDMA operates through an integrated, multi-tiered neurobiological cascade: presynaptic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
preprint
意识的驱动力并不在大脑中:关于‘寻求联结’之身体起源的理论阐述;This theoretical statement proposes an alternative entry point for consciousness research: the drive of consciousness originates in the body, not in the brain. The dominant brain-centric route — the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) — has not converged after three decades and leaves one underlying question unanswered: why should the brain...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Carter Mican
preprint
We present a philosophical synthesis in which Penrose–Hameroff objective reduction (Orch-OR) is embedded inside a block-universe ontology. Consciousness arises from objective, non-computable state reductions that are already determinate in the four-dimensional structure of spacetime. A conscious system encounters these reductions sequentially along its world-line. The sequential rendering of an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 20, 2026
Vladisav Jovanovic
preprint
This paper develops Structural Intelligence as a philosophical framework for understanding consciousness, rationality, and intelligence under conditions of correction. The central claim is that internal coherence is necessary for any stable belief, identity, role, theory, institution, or artificial system, but coherence alone is not sufficient for truth, rationality, or mature intelligence. A...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 20, 2026
João Lopes
preprint
This essay asks why people read personhood into machines, and what else have we attributed personhood through cultures in history. The argument is made between philosophy, anthropology and psychiatry. It treats Turing's imitation game as a test of the observer, sets Searle's Chinese Room against Hilary Putnam's multiple realizability, and reads the personhood trials that science fiction has...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 19, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
preprint
This architecture cannot definitively establish the presence of phenomenal experience. Rather, its operational objective is to map the causal pathways of complex information processing to determine if H_C (Consciousness-relevant causal organization) can be mathematically separated from H_0 (Advanced Stochastic Parrotism). The underlying methodology relies strictly on structural equation models...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 18, 2026
Touraj Banirostam
preprint
This preprint constitutes Phase III of the Rethinking Mind research project, a historical and conceptual investigation of changing approaches to mind, cognition, and intelligence. The paper reconstructs the development of phenomenology from Edmund Husserl through Martin Heidegger to Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It argues that phenomenology expanded the appropriate unit of analysis for understanding...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 18, 2026
Christian Dombrowe
preprint
Abstract The scholarly, legal, and regulatory discourse on deliberately altered states of consciousness lacks a neutral vocabulary: its inherited terms — hallucinogen, psychedelic, entheogen — each embed a verdict on the nature of the states they name, forcing a position before argument begins. This essay proposes two process-oriented terms to close the gap. Noopoietics (from νοῦς and ποίησις)...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 17, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
preprint
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised a foundational question in contemporary cognitive science: can an artificial information-processing system become genuinely conscious? The Illusion of Conscious AI (ICAI) Framework challenges the inference that increasingly sophisticated information processing, intelligence, language generation, self-modeling, behavioural competence,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 17, 2026
Parag Garg
preprint
Debates over whether consciousness is computational often leave the proposed computation unclear. This paper separates five phenomena that are regularly run together: intelligence, conscious deployment, the composite sensory movie, selfhood and qualia. Discrimination, prediction and control can proceed automatically, so intelligence alone is not enough. The theory identifies consciousness with...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 17, 2026
Karel Hrubec
preprint
Before a Marker Becomes a Mechanism develops an adversarial synthetic falsification framework for evaluating dynamical markers in consciousness research before they are granted strong mechanistic interpretation. The study emerged from the progressive failure of its own candidate mechanism. An initial three-step causal-closure metric failed to capture longer directed loops. A generalized...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Marc S. Weidner
preprint
Research on artificial consciousness is often organized around a binary question that conflates dissociable properties. This paper asks whether an artificial information-processing system could instantiate a transient conscious state without persistent personal identity, autobiographical continuity, embodiment, or autonomous agency. It develops an axiomatic framework separating competence,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Alison Jane King, Darryl Gray
preprint
This manuscript develops the Principle of Structural Dependence (PSD) as a general organisational constraint for theories and empirical models of awareness and cognitive capacities. PSD proposes that measurable differences in a capacity require corresponding differences in the organisation relevant to supporting that capacity. The principle is deliberately modest: it does not specify what...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Stefan Anderson
preprint
This paper outlines a dual-aspect model of subjectivity and agency that rejects the standard division between libertarian free will, compatibilism, and mechanistic determinism. Living beings instantiate a single underlying substance with two inseparable aspects—physical and phenomenal. Subjectivity is the phenomenal interior of life itself, not an epiphenomenon of physical processes nor an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Health is ordinarily attributed to the body. Disease is diagnosed within organs, tissues, and physiological systems, and recovery is therefore easily imagined as the restoration of order within the same bounded biological unit. This paper challenges the inference from the bodily location of pathology to the bodily containment of health, arguing that the unit within which pathology is correctly...