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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Sidário Rodrigues Malheiros-junior
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This paper proposes that the Damasian hierarchy tracks a structural property of the underlying neural architecture — the degree to which a layer’s function depends on integration across distributed networks, as opposed to localized or reflexive processing. Stated explicitly, this converts a descriptive clinical taxonomy into a framework yielding specific, falsifiable predictions. The paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Chris Gabriel
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This theoretical and phenomenological paper proposes a revisionary account of Jung’s shadow. Rather than locating the shadow primarily within an unconscious domain, it argues that shadow phenomena may arise within consciousness itself when phenomenally present experience exceeds, contradicts, or is distorted by the autobiographical self-model. The paper develops a four-layer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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Zenodo Description This paper presents an integrated philosophical-psychological model based on four interconnected concepts: Karma and Result, Eligibility, Contentment, and Transformation of Consciousness. The paper proposes that the relationship between action and result should not be understood solely through linear time, but through a process of maturation. It distinguishes between...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 9, 2026
Krystian Szut
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This paper challenges a largely unexamined assumption of contemporary consciousness studies: that consciousness is an intrinsic property of objects. Drawing on the Madhyamaka analysis of emptiness (sunyata) and dependent origination, and on independent convergences in relational quantum mechanics and ontic structural realism, we defend the Relational Thesis of Consciousness (RTC): consciousness...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 9, 2026
Serghei Zaghinaico
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This essay argues that the question of whether a system is conscious is notsomething we discover but something we decide. Human attributions of innerlife to other people already rest entirely on bodily resemblance, not accessto another mind; embodiment shapes the form any candidate subjectivity takes,not merely whether one is present, with the octopus's distributed nervoussystem used as a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 7, 2026
Parviz Khataee
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The Default Mode Network (DMN) has been characterized since its formal description in 2001 as a resting-state network subserving autobiographical memory, social cognition, and prospective thinking. This paper challenges the foundational interpretive assumption of that characterization: that adult human DMN activity constitutes a normal or optimal cognitive baseline. We propose that the DMN, as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 7, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Transcendent experiences are episodes in which the ordinary sense of being a bounded self set over against a world becomes attenuated, reported from contemplative practice, spontaneous mystical episodes, aesthetic encounter, and psychedelic states. Their comparative study remains caught between perennialist claims of a shared essence and constructivist claims that shared descriptions are...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 7, 2026
Elena María Martínez Gijón
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The aim of the present work is to explore possible similarities between the subjective experience of “being dead” described by some individuals following ayahuasca use and the conviction of being dead that may occur in certain cases of Cotard syndrome. Interest in this question arises from a recurring observation, both in testimonies collected directly and in accounts publicly available on the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
Narayan Rout
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This article examines the neuroscientific evidence for states corresponding to Samadhi as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Advaita Vedanta (Turiya, the fourth state). Seven confirmed neuroscientific findings: (1) Default mode network (DMN) deactivation in deep meditators — Judson Brewer (Brown University) and colleagues: experienced meditators show dramatic DMN suppression...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
Wolfgang Stegemann
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This essay develops an argument for the principled, not merely practical, impossibility of producing artificial life and artificial consciousness. The impossibility follows from the convergence of several lines of reasoning: from the nature of scientific abstraction, which always yields a map and never the landscape itself; from the size and branching structure of the evolutionary space of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Psychological literatures on coping, emotion regulation, and contemplative practice have generated a large inventory of techniques for responding to distress, but comparatively little theory about how a person should choose among them. The dominant question has been which technique works; the neglected question is which response is appropriate to this disturbance, at this stage of its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 5, 2026
Ahmed Drissi
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وأهم هذه الدراسة وآلا إلى تحليل التشابه والاختلاف بين الهلوسة والحلم من منظور علم النفس وثورة الهند الإدراكية، من خلال التركيز على ثلاثة أبعاد هي: حالة الوعي، إسناد المصدر، والبنية الزمنية للتجربة. وظهرت الأدبيات العلمية أن الظاهرتين تتقاطعان في العلوم الحيوية الحسية والإحساس القويم بالواقعية، كما تشتركان في اعتمادهما على إنتاج المحتوى الإدراكي من خلال عزل عن جهاز الحسية المباشرة. غير أن...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 4, 2026
Feng Yang
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The philosophical zombie argument is a core modal argument in contemporary dualism against physicalism. Its central claim is that there could exist an entity that is physically and behaviorally identical to a human being yet entirely lacks subjective phenomenal consciousness—a "philosophical zombie." This entity is claimed to be logically conceivable, from which it is inferred that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 4, 2026
Sarah E. Worth
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The senses occupy a paradoxical place in the history of philosophy. They are our primary means of engaging with the world, yet they have frequently been treated as inferior to reason and regarded with suspicion as unreliable sources of knowledge. In this paper I trace the philosophical history of the senses from antiquity to the present, examining how different traditions have understood the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 3, 2026
Lina Bessonova
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We propose the Metabolic Departure Principle (MDP)—the claim that subjecthood does not arise from the minimisation of surprise or the maintenance of a stationary distribution, but from a system's capacity to generate departure within conditions of established homeostatic stability. We contrast MDP against convergence-based frameworks, arguing that these frameworks identify the symptom of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
MD Hredoy Mesha
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গবেষণার প্রেক্ষাপট ও লক্ষ্য: মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা ও আচরণগত পরিবর্তন বিষয়ক বিদ্যমান গবেষণার বিশাল অংশ পাশ্চাত্য দেশের হাসপাতাল ও হসপিস প্রেক্ষাপটে সীমাবদ্ধ। বিদ্যমান একাডেমিক গবেষণার পর্যালোচনা অনুযায়ী, বাংলাদেশের ধর্মীয় ও সামাজিক প্রেক্ষাপটে এই বিষয়ে কোনো গুণগত গবেষণা এখন পর্যন্ত প্রকাশিত হয়নি। এই গবেষণার লক্ষ্য হলো বাংলাদেশের সামাজিক ও ধর্মীয় প্রেক্ষাপটে মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা কীভাবে প্রকাশ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
Rubens Turci
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This essay examines the passage from attentional regulation to contemplative orientation and responsible participation. It distinguishes concentration, mindfulness, kindfulness, heartfulness, contemplation, and responsibility as changing functions within contemplative practice rather than as a rigid hierarchy of techniques. Through the images of the compass, the wheel, and the axis, the essay...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
Julius Barreto-Lins
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Contemporary mindfulness-based interventions have established a substantial evidence base for the training of attention and the reduction of reactivity. Their design — originally inspired by Buddhist contemplative practice and then deliberately secularized for delivery within medicine and psychology — brackets culture, faith, and personhood by design, and is explicit about doing so. This paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 1, 2026
Gerd Leidig
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Contemplative neuroscience has differentiated focused-attention, open-monitoring, constructive, and deconstructive practices, yet it still lacks an integrated account of how embodied events become self-defining, how the organization underlying them becomes experientially accessible, and how another mode of situated participation becomes possible. This article introduces Meditation at the Edge...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 1, 2026
Vina Rayal
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Yoga interventions are being studied more as a means to promote psychological well-being and self-regulation in adult populations, but the wide variety of types of interventions and focus on outcomes have hampered efforts at conceptual clarity. The objective of this review is to consolidate the modern evidence (2017–2025) on Astanga Yoga as an analogue-intervention for adult cognitive,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 31, 2026
B Vignesh Varun
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, significantly impacting the working population by reducing productivity, increasing absenteeism, and impairing overall quality of life. Conventional treatments such as pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, though effective, often face challenges including high dropout rates, limited remission, and adverse side...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 30, 2026
Qiang Dai
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This paper argues that subjectivity begins not with consciousness, memory, or self-reflection, but with a minimal self-maintaining organization for which continued existence and termination are intrinsically non-equivalent. This asymmetry introduces intrinsic normativity into an otherwise indifferent physical order, making information meaningful relative to the organization’s continued...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 30, 2026
Qiang Dai
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The cover paper, A Constructive Ontology of Minded Beings, is not a fourth theoretical contribution so much as the interpretive frame for the trilogy (Paper I on minimal subject: 10.5281/zenodo.21700484, Paper II on minimal self: 10.5281/zenodo.21700773, Paper III on minimal person: 10.5281/zenodo.21700984). It explains that the project is built around three distinct ontological questions: why...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 30, 2026
Francisco Marques de Abreu Filho
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Este artigo examina, por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica narrativa de natureza qualitativa e exploratória, as interfaces entre as técnicas respiratórias do Yoga (pranayama), a meditação e os principais referenciais psicoterápicos contemporâneos (psicodinâmico, cognitivo-comportamental e terapias de terceira onda) na promoção da regulação psicofisiológica e do bem-estar mental. O trabalho...