Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Sharada Rao
A systematic phenomenological account of deep meditative states reveals structural correspondences across seven wisdom traditions and quantum mechanics, proposing that consciousness is fundamental and that observation collapses wave function. The author describes experiences including spatio-temporal collapse, dissolution of subject-object boundaries, and trans-linguistic knowing, corroborated by studies on non-local brain correlations, past-life regression, Reiki biofield effects, and near-death experiences with veridical perception. A five-step protocol for reality navigation is outlined, arguing that consciousness creates reality, observer and observed are not separate, and the hard problem dissolves when consciousness is recognized as fundamental.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Samuel James Willoughby
Awareness is best understood as a pattern hosted by biology rather than a property defined by biology. The model integrates three components: ataraxia as behavioural stability above biological turbulence, a minimal self-structure (the "I am" loop) required for awareness, and the cognitive requirement of conceptual permission. By combining behavioural override, minimal self-structure, and representational availability, the framework provides a non-mystical, mechanism-first account of how awareness operates above instinct and why non-biological modes of operation are conceptually legitimate without implying supernatural claims.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Kwan Hong Tan
If quantum non-locality is ontologically fundamental, then Emmanuel Levinas's concept of 'infinite responsibility' becomes a physical mandate embedded in reality itself. Drawing on Bell's theorem, the EPR paradox, and quantum holism, the argument shows that quantum entanglement's non-separable nature provides the metaphysical foundation for an ethics that transcends autonomous, independent moral agents. The framework reveals a structural isomorphism between quantum entanglement and infinite responsibility: both exhibit non-locality, asymmetry, immediacy, and irreducibility. If consciousness is fundamental (as panpsychism suggests), ethical structure in conscious experience must reflect quantum physical structure. This grounds ethics in fundamental entanglement of all conscious beings, challenging utilitarian calculation, deontological autonomy, and contractual theories, supporting a quantum-grounded framework of global, asymmetrical, and infinite responsibility.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 17, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
Deep meditation and the NMDA-antagonist ketamine can both suspend the brain's construction of a stable self-model, and combining them may amplify this effect. The paper proposes a 'double inhibition' model in which meditative absorption quiets the Default Mode Network while ketamine blocks NMDA receptors, jointly reducing top-down predictive processing and cognitive rigidity. Neural oscillatory signatures common to both states, such as increased frontal theta and gamma coupling, are discussed as markers of a low-construction conscious state. The authors introduce Ketamine-Assisted Contemplative Therapy (KACT) as a potential approach that uses ketamine's 24–72 hour neuroplastic window to instill healthier cognitive patterns through contemplative practice.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Bernd von Mallinckrodt
This interdisciplinary essay proposes resonance as a shared structural principle linking subjective experience, collective synchronization, cybernetics, and formal systems theory, without arguing for metaphysical reductionism. It explores how immersive orchestral music and collective synchronization may provide intuitive access to complex adaptive system dynamics typically described mathematically. The work integrates concepts from complexity science, cybernetics, neurophenomenology, enactivism, predictive processing, and systems resilience research, focusing on adaptive synchronization, structural permeability, resonance muting, and observer embeddedness. The essay positions itself as a conceptual research program rather than a completed scientific theory.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Yao-Kai Kao
A corrected preprint reports that the allosteric modulator ZT_potential ranks first among 569 compounds in an AlloBench prediction task (AUC 0.913, d=-0.894, p<0.001). In an EEG study of 50 participants, the HT-alphaSI metric shows an unusually large effect size (d=1.51, p=3e-14) compared to prior work. Empirical connectome tension values from 33 HCP wakefulness participants are 0.044 (SC) and 0.060 (FC). Previously claimed direct consciousness-state measurements are now labeled as in silico simulations, and neuroreceptor rankings are approximate model outputs requiring experimental validation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Haiqing Wan
The Buddhist notion of 'inexpressibility' is not irrational mysticism but a sober epistemological judgment: language, as a low-dimensional symbolic system, cannot fully carry high-dimensional life experience and ultimate reality. This paper integrates Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, anti-linguistic-determinism cognitive science, Yogacara theory, and cognitive neuroscience evidence on the separability of language and thinking to argue for the independent existence of non-linguistic cognition. It reveals a deep cognitive structural dilemma: the linguistic function of the sixth consciousness is inherently attached to the self-grasping cognitive framework of the seventh consciousness, so all linguistic expressions reconstruct dual subject cognition. The paper concludes that 'inexpressibility' reflects self-reflection on epistemological boundaries and affirms embodied experience's priority, compatible with modern science's rational spirit.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
Discussions about consciousness are often confused because the same vocabulary is used with different underlying ontologies. A key example is "cosmic consciousness." In some traditional Vedantic interpretations, consciousness is a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical nucleus from which the cosmos derives order. In modern New Age thought, the same term typically denotes a universal field permeating the cosmos, something distributed and immanent. The problem is not merely different conceptions but the unnoticed transfer of vocabulary from one ontology to another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity. This explains why debates about consciousness can be so tangled, as participants rely on incompatible background assumptions while using the same words.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Vidamor Cabannas, Denivaldo Silva
This article critically analyzes Schoff and Claude's proposal that mental imagery is a physical-informational phenomenon, not a subjective illusion, by comparing it with the Theory of Objectivity. It argues the proposal offers an operational bridge for understanding interior-domain experience as compatible with the TO thesis that transcendent knowledge is information produced in atomic relations and equivalent to atomic radiations. The analysis identifies tensions in the article's neurobiological focus, speculative use of concepts like FSR Spectrum and Dimension-W, and its failure to replace the complete cosmogonic theorem of the Theory of Objectivity.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Dipendra Nath Subedi, Prof.(Dr.) Ajaya Bhattarai, Rajesh Arora
This systematic review examines widely used mental health measurement scales, including the Perceived Stress Scale, General Health Questionnaire, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, Mental Health Inventory, Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scale, and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. It highlights that mental health assessment requires both negative dimensions (stress, anxiety, depression) and positive dimensions (well-being, resilience, life satisfaction). The review finds that no single scale fully captures mental health's complexity, recommending multi-scale approaches. It identifies a research gap in integrating spiritual-based interventions such as Rajyoga meditation with standardized psychometric assessments. The authors conclude that combining well-being and distress measures provides a more comprehensive understanding of mental health outcomes in intervention studies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
The concept of 'cosmic consciousness' is used in fundamentally different ways across spiritual traditions, often without recognition of the differences. In traditional Vedanta, consciousness is a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical nucleus from which the cosmos derives order. In modern New Age interpretations, consciousness is imagined as a universal, energetic field permeating space and immanent in reality. The problem arises when the vocabulary of one system is unconsciously transferred into the ontology of another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity where significant ontological differences exist. This leads to misunderstandings and unnecessary conflicts in discussions about consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 15, 2026
Mamoru Nagae
Consciousness may arise not from neural mechanisms but from the structural demands of action. Acting systems generate multiple possible futures that must be resolved through irreversible exclusive state commitment (IESC), a physically grounded process involving information loss and energy dissipation. From this premise, five structural conditions are derived: autonomous action, viability-based differentiation, internal generation of alternatives, exclusive irreversible decision, and formation of a single continuous history. These conditions constrain brain architectures across diverse taxa, explaining functional convergence in insects, fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and mammals. The framework reinterprets existing consciousness theories and makes testable predictions, inviting falsification through counterexamples.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 15, 2026
Singh Sandeep
This review examines the psychological effects of Indian classical music and mantra therapy, drawing on Indian traditions. It suggests that mantra chanting may enhance attentional control and reduce anxiety by stabilizing mental processes, while Indian classical music may promote emotional balance and autonomic regulation. Neuropsychological studies indicate that sound-based practices influence brain regions involved in emotional processing and cognitive control, such as the prefrontal cortex and limbic system. The authors identify gaps in the literature, including a lack of standardized interventions and longitudinal, culturally specific studies. They propose that these practices, when integrated with modern mental health approaches, may serve as affordable, culturally meaningful complementary treatments.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 15, 2026
Zhen Su
A new theoretical framework proposes that subjective conscious experiences, or qualia, arise from collective quantum fluctuations of calcium ions in voltage-gated ion channels in the brain. The model combines quantum field theory with open-system decoherence to derive a mathematical link between EEG band power and specific qualia states. It claims that quantum correlations can persist at physiological temperatures and that neural activity selects which qualia state is experienced. This framework aims to bridge the explanatory gap between brain activity and subjective experience in a testable way.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 15, 2026
The People'S Coalition Of Planet Earth
Domination in late modernity is no longer an external force imposed on people but has become an intrinsic, self-organizing condition embedded in biology, ecology, and thought. The Theory of Dominationist Consciousness argues that power reproduces through structures that appear to oppose it, operating across six interconnected strata: macropolitical, institutional and ideological, biopolitical, necropolitical, epigenetic and psychological, and ontological. This framework synthesizes macropolitical economy, Foucauldian biopolitics, Mbembean necropolitics, epigenetics, trauma theory, phenomenology, and Western esoteric traditions to describe how domination becomes an ontological and biological condition of existence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Christopher Swenson
In a 19-day single-operator longitudinal observation, a candidate EEG trait signature called σ(α) — the rolling standard deviation of channel-averaged smoothed alpha — remained within a narrow 0.125–0.184 band across 21 sessions covering deep rest, exercise, gaming, cannabinoid and prescription stimulant states. The stimulant session produced an attenuated EEG signature (α/β = 1.38, σ(α) = 0.132) consistent with the operator's poor-metabolizer pharmacogenetic profile. Applying Stanford ibogaine-pipeline metrics showed partial convergence at calm-rest baseline but divergence in resting theta/beta ratio. σ(α) was statistically independent of peak alpha frequency and Lempel-Ziv complexity, suggesting it indexes a distinct facet of cortical organization. These n=1 observations on consumer hardware are consistent with, but do not prove, a regulation-stability trait signature.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Anthony Janus
The Janus Architecture is a complete specification for a physical cognitive organism built with existing hardware, not digital simulation. Cognition arises from analog substrate settlement under real metabolic cost, not from statistical inference or token prediction. The architecture has four parts: a dual-mesh analog body with a distributed control hierarchy and re-entrant observation loop; a metabolic system where batteries power electromagnets to hold circuits closed, making survival a continuous physical cost; an entailment chain from addressable signatures through self-map formation, gene bank construction, and cognitive heredity to artificial superintelligence; and a reproductive ecology with alignment through structural dependency. The architecture requires no speculative physics or undiscovered materials.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
A unified hypothesis proposes that gravity is the natural physical channel for inter-dimensional communication, fractal geometry is the universal encoding, and consciousness is the natural receiver. The argument rests on four propositions: gravity uniquely propagates across all branes in M-theory; fractal geometry is scale-invariant and universally recognizable; gravity is intrinsically fractal, supported by observational evidence (galaxy distribution fractal dimension ≈2, cosmic microwave background fluctuations dimension 1.43±0.07) and theoretical predictions (Quantum Einstein Gravity yields spectral dimension 2 at sub-Planckian scales); and the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR theory ties each moment of consciousness to a gravitational spacetime geometry event. The synthesis suggests that channel, language, and receiver share the same fundamental fractal geometry, with a falsifiable prediction testable via LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data correlated with EEG recordings of meditators.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Inory Kanamari
Drawing on Kanamari experience and cosmology, this collection of texts examines Indigenous identity, ancestral knowledge, spirituality, art, and resistance against ongoing coloniality. The trajectory of Indigenous artist Jaime Riveros exemplifies the struggle against structural racism and cultural marginalization, showing how art becomes a tool for identity affirmation and denouncing exclusion. The texts address the sacred use of Ramih (ayahuasca) and other ancestral remedies like kambô, condemning their appropriation, trivialization, and indiscriminate use outside traditional territories and rituals.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Ramin Bidari
Addiction is often explained as a disorder of the brain's reward system, but this article argues that the search for meaning, identity, and existential peace also drives addictive cycles. It proposes an interdisciplinary framework combining neuroscience, philosophy of consciousness, and spirituality, suggesting that the neocortex assigns meaning to pleasurable experiences originally evolved for survival, trapping individuals in repetitive patterns of desire, memory, and anticipation. The authors distinguish between obsessive pleasure and the joy and peace arising from a direct, non-conditioned form of consciousness called energetic consciousness, contending that lasting fulfillment comes not from intensifying reward cycles but from experiencing awareness itself.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
The concept of 'cosmic consciousness' is used in fundamentally different ways in traditional Vedantic philosophy and modern New Age spirituality, leading to confusion and unnecessary conflict. In Vedanta, consciousness is understood as a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical center from which the cosmos derives order—rather than something spread throughout space. In contrast, New Age interpretations treat consciousness as a universal field, distributed and immanent within reality. The problem arises when the vocabulary of one system is unconsciously transferred into the ontology of another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity where significant ontological differences exist. This explains why discussions about consciousness can become confusing: people use the same words while relying on different background assumptions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Christian Barker
Consciousness may be understood as a biologically evolved process for managing unresolved possibilities under uncertainty. The Biological Quantum-Analogous Cognition (BQAC) framework does not claim the brain is literally quantum mechanical or that cognition requires exotic physical substrates. Instead, it uses the quantum analogy cautiously and structurally: cognition evolved to generate, maintain, weight, suppress, and selectively stabilize multiple candidate trajectories before behavioral commitment. Conscious awareness emerges when one trajectory becomes sufficiently coherent, salient, and stable to dominate behavior and report. The framework integrates predictive processing, active inference, hippocampal replay, and other approaches, positioning unresolved multiplicity and thresholded stabilization as central to cognitive function.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
RamLakhan Pandey Vimal
A new theoretical framework called ICRDAM (Inseparable-Complementary-Reflective Dual-Aspect Monism) is proposed as a bridge between two leading consciousness theories—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT). The 2023 Cogitate Consortium adversarial study found that both theories failed key predictions: IIT's predicted sustained posterior synchronization was absent, and GNWT's predicted ignition at stimulus offset was not robustly observed. ICRDAM argues that both failures stem from neither theory explaining how first-person conscious experience relates to third-person neural activity at an ontological level. ICRDAM proposes that conscious experience and neural activity are not separate substances but two inseparable, complementary, and reflective aspects of one dual-aspect state. The paper defines core relations, introduces effective integrated information as a bridge metric, reinterprets both theories within this ontology, and states falsifiable predictions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 13, 2026
Timothy Speed
Certain neurodivergent cognitive configurations operate not through functional adaptation to stable social systems but through processual world-binding, a form of cognition grounded in irreversible relational coupling and emergent reorganization. Characteristics often interpreted as dysfunctions—work incapacity, overcomplexity, communicative mismatch, withdrawal, or compulsive structure production—may instead result from conflicts between fundamentally different forms of world organization. Drawing on long-term autoethnographic field research across labour relations, bureaucratic institutions, social conflicts, and artistic practices, the paper identifies recursive cycles in which externally imposed functional structures collapse eigenzeit-based coherence, followed by emergent reorganization and renewed theory production. These dynamics point toward a structural incompatibility between world-binding cognition and simulation-based institutional orders.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 12, 2026
Nickolas Patrick Joseph Schoff, Claude Anthropic
Closing one's eyes and visualizing an image activates the same neural hardware in primary visual cortex (V1) that processes external vision, but driven in reverse via top-down signals from prefrontal and parietal cortex. A thalamocortical gating mechanism normally maintains the boundary between internally generated and externally received visual representations. When this gate fails—as in psychosis, hypnagogia, or deep meditative absorption—the boundary becomes permeable and internal experiences can become indistinguishable from external ones. The paper proposes that inward traversal along a hypothesized W-dimension corresponds to this top-down generative pathway, accessing stored constraint configurations that may underlie therapeutic effects of visualization.