Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 4, 2026
Linqian Wu, Diaoxuan He
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Theories linking consciousness to the intrinsic causal organization of a system, most notably "Integrated Information Theory" (IIT), hold that how a computation is implemented is as significant as the what is computed. Whether such theories can be tested turns on a concrete question: when can intrinsic causal integration be inferred from finite interventions? Working exactly in small stochastic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 4, 2026
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This paper presents an independent philosophical exploration of consciousness, beginning from the idea that consciousness may exist more like fire than like a transferable object: it depends on a physical substrate, yet cannot be reduced simply to the material from which that substrate is made. The paper examines first-person experience, the problem of other minds, philosophical zombies,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 3, 2026
Ethan Doyle White
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The Cultus Sabbati is an initiatory esoteric order established by the Englishman Andrew D. Chumbley in 1991. Chumbley, who was from rural Essex, claimed that he had been introduced to two separate occult groups while a teenager in the 1980s. The first, he maintained, was called the Red Snake and had originated in the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire borderlands prior to the Second World War. The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 3, 2026
Michael Paul Coder
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Most devices that detect REM sleep at home are worn on the face or head. This study tests the lucidcode INSPEC, a bedside infrared camera that detects the rapid eye movements of REM sleep in real time and can cue the sleeper to induce lucid dreams. I recorded two nights of my own sleep at home with the camera and a two-channel forehead EEG (CGX Patch) running at the same time. The EEG was...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 3, 2026
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Mark Solms and colleagues argue that an artificial agent built on homeostatic need, active inference, and a Markov blanket can do more than behave as if it feels: it can instantiate affective consciousness. Feeling, on their account, is a valenced, qualitatively distinctive, selectively prioritized state, and an agent that must infer such states through a low-bandwidth blanket has a point of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 3, 2026
Bharati Sanket Lodha, Sanket Ramakant Lodha, Yogesh Suresh Bafana
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Namokara (Pali: Navkar Mahāmantra or Navakārā Mantra) is the most important and popular prayer of Jainism in its basic fivefold greetings, common to both the Digambar and Śvetāmbara sects. While theistic mantras are prayers addressed to a Creator, it praises five groups of spiritual beings (pañca-parameṣṭhī): arihanta, siddha, ācārya, upādhyāya, and sādhu. This study explores the Navkar Mantra...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 3, 2026
Peter de Ceuster
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Modern civilization has inherited extraordinary powers of explanation and control, yet itoften struggles to describe the felt reality of belonging: the experience that a human being isnot merely an isolated observer moving through a passive world, but a participant in a livingweb of relations. At its centre lies an older and still urgent question. The journey begins with themind–body...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Shahina Samir
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This paper introduces the Subjective Eternity Hypothesis (SEH), a preliminary conceptual framework exploring how the human brain may construct experiences of extraordinary duration or timelessness. It investigates three proposed mechanisms: temporal expansion, retrospective memory reconstruction and subjective timelessness. DMT research and near-death experiences are examined as comparative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Alan Chamberlain
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AbstractIn this piece I use the notion of the “Mystic and the Machine”. This creates a critical-counterpoint which allows us (me) to explore, critique, understand and start to dis-entangle what it is that we (I) reflect on when we engage with notions relating to the self and AI. This short piece starts to explore ideas and concepts, and is influenced by Autotheory, Anthropology, Design,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Conte Ivano Bajamonti
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This essay questions the origin of perception itself, not its contents. Written outside institutional science, from direct experience of depersonalisation. Keywords: consciousness, perception, depersonalization, origin of mind
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Next Level Soul
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Guided meditation, where a voice leads a listener through attention, breathing, imagery or relaxation, is one of the most common ways people now meet meditation. This narrative review asks what peer-reviewed research does and does not show about it. We summarize large syntheses of randomized trials, including a 2014 review of 47 trials (3,515 participants) and a 2022 umbrella review of 44...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
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La fibromialgia (FM) è una condizione eterogenea che, in una quota sostanziale di pazienti,resiste a una spiegazione puramente organica. Sulla scia di precedenti articoli dedicati aiparadossi diagnostici, il presente lavoro intende sviluppare un modello post-traumatico eterapeutico funzionale. L’ipotesi centrale è che, dopo aver escluso le condizioni organichemisconosciute—in primis la...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Renu Bala, Atul Kumar
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Abstract “Career transitions represent a critical and psychologically challenging phase in the developmental journey of young individuals. The transition from academic education to professional employment, preparation for competitive examinations, career-related indecisiveness, unemployment, workplace adjustment, and evolving socio-economic demands often expose young people to considerable...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Surbhi Agrawal
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The present research study presents a comprehensive qualitative and descriptive analysis of the therapeutic and physiological effects of Cyclic Meditation based on the principles of Mandukya Upanishad. As a solution to stress, insomnia and psychosomatic disorders caused by modern lifestyle, this technique works on a cyclical sequence of physical postures (stimulation) and relaxation (calming)...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Jonathan Dufour
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Consciousness, Life, and Autonomy: A Theory of Subjectivity as the Qualitative Accounting of Self-Preservation / Conscience, vie et autonomie : une théorie de la subjectivité comme comptabilité qualitative de l'auto-préservation Abstract (English) : This article proposes a structural-functionalist theory of consciousness grounded in the thermodynamic distinction between mechanical autonomy and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
Xiaohu Liu
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Abstract Against the fragmentation among biological exclusivism, traditional panpsychism, information emergence theory, and functionalism, this paper proposes a hierarchical spectrum theory of consciousness that takes information as its working ontology, carrier organization as its condition, and the continuous unified experience stream as its core criterion. Compared with earlier formulations,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 2, 2026
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A philosophical meditation on personal identity, consciousness, birth and death. Beginning with childhood experiences of mortality and disappearance, the narrator recalls an enduring intuition that the self cannot be entirely explained by the conventional understanding of human existence as beginning at birth and ending with death. The text gradually develops a distinction between the socially...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 1, 2026
Volha Korbut Salman
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This study examines the important, yet underexamined, influence of Éliphas Lévi’s Mediterranean esotericism upon English literature at the turn of the twentieth century by tracing the way his Hermetic philosophy was received and transformed by the literary imaginations of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen and Aleister Crowley. Fundamental to Lévi’s venture was the rehabilitation of magic as a sacred...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 1, 2026
Marius Popescu
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The theological work of St. Symeon the New Theologian, long marginalized by ”official” academic theology and preserved mainly within monastic circles, has in recent decades become the subject of growing scholarly interest. This article examines the originality of St. Symeon’s theology—rooted firmly in Scripture and Patristic Tradition, yet distinguished by the central place it gives to the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 1, 2026
Michelle Robichaux
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This article presents a thematic summary of the author’s interview with Eamon Willow Davies, a non-binary Shamanic Practitioner based in Austin, Texas, USA, who integrates the healing and wisdom traditions of their Welsh ancestry into their practice through Integrative Soul Work from a Shamanic Perspective. The author will provide a summary of each theme from Eamon’s interview, discuss its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 1, 2026
Ronan John Perry
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Could surviving physical information support the reconstruction of a temporally specific person, and would such a reconstruction preserve the original person’s conscious experience? This personal, non-peer-reviewed introductory paper proposes Continuity Science as a working name for bringing existing fields together to investigate what persists, changes, or is lost in a person over time,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 1, 2026
Michael Gebre
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This manuscript develops a bounded framework, referred to here as GTCR (Grand Theory of Consciousness Resolution), for how consciously available information becomes organized meaning, remains open to correction, guides action, and is retransmitted. The framework links embodied enabling conditions, eight analytic distinctions within Meaning-Space, Organizational Resolution (OR), Resolution...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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What does it mean for two people to share an experience without possessing identical experiences? This addendum extends the contextual experiential-binding proposal from the constitution of individual qualitative episodes to capability, mind attribution, experiential access, and intersubjective participation. Its central claim is that shared experience can be modeled as a higher-order,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Ajay Hagan
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Self-related capacities, such as modelling one's own states, telling one's own activity from external input and recognizing one's own past, are proposed as indicators of machine consciousness. We ask whether such indicators can tell a self from a system that merely carries information about itself. For each capacity we build the test, the cheapest mechanism that passes it, an outside observer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Alexandros Schismenos
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This paper argues that the central problem posed by contemporary artificial intelligence is not whether computational systems can reproduce the observable functions of human cognition, but whether their expanding integration into social institutions encourages a reduction of human judgment, creativity, and collective autonomy to measurable and optimizable processes. I address Geoffrey Hinton’s...