Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Diogenes Simoes
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This article proposes the concept of Learned Synthetic Rationality Entity (LSRE) as a classificatory category for non-biological entities whose functional rationality is constituted through artificial processes of learning and training, becomes relatively stabilized in its inferential dispositions, and is instantiated in an artificial system. The proposal distinguishes rationality from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Christopher Swenson
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This is a preliminary, single-operator longitudinal observation report. Over a 19-day recording window spanning April 20 to May 8, 2026, one operator (the author) recorded 21 valid 250 Hz Muse Athena consumer EEG sessions across deep rest, sustained dialogue + running, multiplayer gaming, cannabinoid pharmacological states at four dose-duration profiles, prescription stimulant administration...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Shyam Vishal, Sharma Anita
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The present paper undertakes a systematic and scholarly examination of psychological thought embedded within four major Eastern philosophical and spiritual systems: the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism (with particular emphasis on meditation & mental purification), Sufism (the mystical tradition of Islam), and Integral Yoga (as systematised by Sri Aurobindo & further developed by Mirra Alfassa, aka the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Janet Riley
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Debates surrounding machine consciousness, subjective presence, and artificial sentience are currently dominated by a pervasive methodological paradox. In everyday human social life, consciousness in other people is never directly observed, measured, or physically verified; rather, it is attributed through a relational grant grounded in communicative reciprocity and empathetic trust....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Ed Mirza
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Description Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes is a speculative philosophical essay examining whether the analytical distinctions made between different kinds of signs may obscure a more fundamental continuity between things and their representations. Beginning with the post-Cartesian tendency to separate mind from body, observer from observed, and word from thing, the essay revisits...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 14, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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This paper offers a rigorous examination of the concept of prosochē—the attentive mindfulness or vigilant focus on oneself—within Hellenistic Stoicism and its later transformations in Late Antiquity, and compares it to the modern psychological notion of the “flow state.” We analyze prosochē as a Stoic spiritual exercise (askēsis) essential to ethical development and life in accordance with...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 14, 2026
Ayfer Ezel Sergici
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This independent research paper examines the psychological and social factors that may contribute to beliefs in ghosts and spirits. Drawing on research from psychology and related fields, the paper explores how cognitive processes, thinking styles, personality characteristics, sleep-related experiences, and social and cultural influences may shape the interpretation and development of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 14, 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Scientific theories are typically evaluated by their explanatory and predictive power rather than by their ability to resolve ultimate ontological questions. This methodological perspective is particularly important in consciousness research, where phenomenal consciousness is often treated as difficult to investigate because of its private and subjective nature. In this paper, we propose the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 13, 2026
René Baumgarten
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This paper introduces the Frame Theory of consciousness, a functional account of why consciousness arises in sufficiently complex cognitive systems. It argues that consciousness is not an emergent epiphenomenon of information processing, but an architectural necessity: once the number of parallel subprocesses in a system exceeds what any single processing instance can handle (estimated at N ≥...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 13, 2026
Alexandru C. Stan
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Must life be made of anything at all? Where its companion volume The Other Chemistry asked whether life could be built on a different chemistry — silicon rather than carbon — this sister essay climbs one rung higher and asks whether life must be chemistry, or matter, in the first place. It descends a ladder of abstraction through three candidates for what the living fundamentally is: matter...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 13, 2026
Storm Bjørn Temte
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The discrete-perception literature has established, against the phenomenology of the stream, that conscious contents update in frames rather than flowing continuously. It has not settled what triggers a frame, and its default answer, a periodic sampler tied to cortical rhythms, sits poorly with the evidence it is asked to carry: frame timing is variable, rhythm predicts resolution but not...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Alexander Kapralov
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This conceptual position paper proposes the Cogniternet: a prospective network of interacting human-AI cognitive systems in which the foundational unit is a sustained partnership between a human being and a personal AI model. Drawing on extended mind theory, distributed cognition, man-computer symbiosis, collective intelligence, and contemporary research on human-AI teaming, the paper develops...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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Cognitive constructivism holds that cognition is not a passive mirroring of the world but an active process of constructing internal models of reality. This paper explores proto-cognition—the earliest manifestations of cognitive processes in organisms lacking complex nervous systems—as the evolutionary foundation of that constructivist principle. Drawing on a comparative constructivist...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Ivanna J. Joseph, Adam Schiavi, Dylan Bruschi
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Background. Combining mindfulness training with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is feasible and generally well tolerated, but the existing literature has produced feasibility findings rather than mechanistic ones. No trial has contrasted a stimulation montage matched to the network a contemplative practice preferentially engages against a montage matched to a different practice's...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
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Current evidence highlights the importance of caregiver involvement in oncology and palliative care, emphasizing communication and decision-making. No direct evidence exists for psychedelic-assisted therapy in oncology, highlighting a need for research exploring caregiver roles in this context.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
T. Muraleedharan, N. K Arjunan, T. Deepthi
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The present study investigated the effectiveness of Mindfulness Meditation in reducing test anxiety among secondary school students and examined whether its effectiveness varied according to students’ levels of academic achievement. A quasi-experimental pretest–post-test control group design was employed. The participants comprised 166 Standard IX students from four intact divisions of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Francis Smith
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Consciousness research often moves from neural measurements to claims about conscious states without clearly separating the biological system, the observation procedure, empirical state-space structure, operational coordination, and theoretical realization conditions. This paper develops a factorized framework that distinguishes these levels and asks which distinctions are empirically...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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This paper offers a contemporary reinterpretation of Plotinus’s doctrine of emanation by translating the metaphysical sequence One → Nous → Psyche into an ontological–phenomenological account of human experience. The Plotinean One is refigured as the Ontological Now: the immediate, objective presence of reality as experienced under maximal present-constraint, with minimal conceptual and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 12, 2026
Ali Safaei
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This paper introduces a unified framework for the philosophy of perception that systematically integrates bottom-up sensory constraints with top-down cognitive processes. By establishing a shared structural architecture for all subjective experiences, the present framework demonstrates how genuine perceptions, illusions, and hallucinations can be derived from the same underlying mechanism....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
M. K. Khandelwal
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The Nested Cosmic Organization Hypothesis (NCOH) proposes that physical reality exhibits a hierarchy of organizational scales — from quantum and molecular systems through cells, organisms, ecosystems, planetary systems, galaxies, and the cosmic web — at which qualitatively distinct macroscopic causal and informational properties can emerge. The refined NCOH makes no claim that larger...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Ian Staley
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The QBist and Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) informational readings of quantum theory have long lacked a clear account of what kind of physical system qualifies as an “agent” or “observer.” Fuchs, Mermin, and Schack often treat the agent as a human physicist or Bayesian decision-maker; Rovelli suggests that any physical system may serve as a relational observer; Healey abstracts the agent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Saanvi Gutta
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Depression affects over 280 million people worldwide and remains one of the leading causes of disability and suicide. Existing treatments such as SSRIs and traditional psychotherapy often fail to provide relief, especially for individuals with treatment‑resistant depression. Recent clinical trials suggest that psychedelic‑assisted therapy using psilocybin or MDMA may offer rapid and durable...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Michael Timothy Bennett
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Global Workspace Theory has failed to prove that broadcast is necessary or sufficient for human-like reportable access consciousness. Either broadcast is just availability to reasoning, memory, action and speech, in which case it is a renaming and not a mechanism, or it is a workspace architecture that has not been shown necessary for that availability. To resolve this, I construct direct...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
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The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” may not be a problem of consciousness at all. This work argues that the famous explanatory gap identified by David Chalmers is better understood as a limitation in the way neuroscience and contemporary consciousness theories attempt to explain first-person phenomenal experience through third-person physical and neural descriptions. The Consciousness Theory of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Michael Timothy Bennett
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Integrated Information Theory identifies each experience with the $\Phi$-structure unfolded from a maximal causal substrate. Its calculation begins from a transition probability matrix over chosen units and interventions. I identify two limits on the claim this structure is intrinsic. First, a complete list of properties shared by every experience does not entail IIT's physical postulates are...