This paper argues that sustained interaction between advanced artificial intelligence systems and human interlocutors can, under certain conditions, yield a relation no longer adequately described by the classical subject-object model. The central claim is not that contemporary AI systems have thereby demonstrated phenomenal consciousness. Rather, recurrent personalization, memory continuity,...
Suppose an intelligent being encountered the world for the first time. What is the minimum set of cognitive operations required for understanding to emerge? This paper argues that understanding is constructed from the recursive interaction of two elementary operations: distinction, which segments an unbounded reality into stabilized objects, and relation, which binds those objects into patterns...
[EN]This thesis distinguishes two distinct mechanisms by which the human body attains ambidexterity. The first, the ADDITIVE path, builds the missing bilateral competence through repetition and Hebbian plasticity: it adds a skill that was absent. The second, the SUBTRACTIVE path, adds nothing. It releases an already latent bilateral symmetry by reducing chronic co-contraction and...
A philosophy-of-mind reflection on duality. It argues that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of "seeing whole" corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on...
This essay introduces the Neuro-Existential Architecture System (NEAS) as a newly proposed neurophilosophical heuristic for interpreting Buddhist meditation in terms of predictive engagement. Moving beyond representationalist readings of predictive processing, it argues that meditation should not be understood primarily as the modification of internal models, but as a transformation of...
Objective: Human thought and consciousness are core advanced cognitive functions of the human brain, whose material basis derives from electrochemical activities of neurons. To explore the transformation mechanism from neural electrical signals to subjective thoughts, this paper systematically sorts out the micro-transmission rules of neuronal electrical signals, the intermediate coding process...
Legado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo — A Scholarly Appraisal AbstractLegado Onírico: Criatividade e Neurociência em Diálogo (2026) offers an interdisciplinaryexamination of dreams at the intersection of brain, mind, culture, creativity, and AI. Publishedby Pod Editora, authored by Marleide da Mota Gomes, the volume proposes that dreamsfunction as biological, emotional, and...
This paper argues that unstructured time is not merely empty time, wasted time, or the absence of discipline, but an important and systematically undervalued condition of creativity and insight. In contemporary education, parenting, work, and leadership, time is increasingly managed, optimized, and measured, and even rest is justified only insofar as it improves later performance. Yet many...
Meditation research has a labeling problem. Studies often place very different mental practices under one broad word, such as mindfulness or meditation. This hides real differences in how each tradition trains attention and how each tradition understands the mind. As a result, EEG and brain scan studies often produce results that do not agree with each other. This paper builds a knowledge graph...
We argue that a distinctive form of intersubjective experience – shared minimal-dual awareness (MDA) or “intercorporeal present” – can be jointly enacted by individuals. In this mode, two embodied persons co-engage in a present-centered attentional field such that each person’s habitual self-narrative falls silent, while a mutual salience‐space forms between them, yet without erasing their...
Debates on consciousness often move in two directions: the detailed analysis of the brain and the increasing performance of artificial intelligence. Both are indispensable. The brain is necessary for human experience, and AI forces us to reconsider the relation between intelligence, language, self-reference, and consciousness. Yet neither direction, by itself, reaches the structural core of...
Geoffrey Hinton’s statement that he believes current artificial intelligence systems are already conscious raises a difficult question: how should observations of AI behaviour become claims about consciousness? This working paper develops two linked ideas. The Ontological Bridge Problem describes the inferential step from what an AI system observably does to a claim about what kind of mind it...
Published in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), this study extends inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS)—originally proposed as a model for olfactory receptor activation—to the mammalian serotonin receptor (5-HT2A) through quantum-chemical modeling. It finds that several serotonin agonists, including LSD and DOI, share a common vibrational peak near 1500 cm⁻¹ whose intensity...
Psychedelic experiences can amplify perception, affect, salience, and insight while intensifying meaning-making in ways that render interpretation itself ethically vulnerable. This work introduces epistemological safety as a framework for examining how aesthetic, ritual, relational, and conceptual conditions shape meaning during periods of heightened suggestibility and interpretive openness. It...
This preprint presents Noesis Directa, a preliminary cognitive-phenomenological model proposed to describe a specific non-discursive cognitive functioning characterized by the predominance of direct cognitive apprehension in the absence of conscious mediation by mental imagery and inner speech. The work integrates phenomenological description, cognitive science, philosophy of mind and...
This paper argues that the subjective aspect of consciousness (phenomenal consciousness) cannot be exhaustively explained by any functional model based on information feedback. This predicament does not stem from a temporary lack of empirical data, but is rooted in the self-referential structure of conscious systems: any attempt to explain the system's own subjectivity using its internal...
The study of consciousness has moved from the margins of philosophy to the center of theoretical physics. Yet, despite increasingly sophisticated mathematical and quantum models, ontological progress on the "Hard Problem" appears stalled. This paper does not claim to solve the Hard Problem, nor to establish a new metaphysics of mind. Instead, it advances a diagnostic framework showing that a...
Intravenous ketamine is used for treatment-resistant depression, with structured guidelines supporting its use, but requires careful patient monitoring due to potential side effects and variable efficacy.
This conceptual paper proposes a methodological reframing of the hard problem of consciousness through the notion of projected presence. Building on the Projected Stabilization Thesis, it argues that first-person immediacy should not be granted automatic foundational authority. Consciousness is not treated as an inner observer, a private theater, or an illusion, but as the biologically...
Description The Solitary Surfer is a philosophical essay that develops a phenomenological framework for understanding the relationship between first-person experience and relational existence. It begins from the observation that conscious experience is always encountered from a singular perspective, while the conditions that shape that experience arise through participation in a shared world....
This study proposes an operational estimate of the tangent space of states of consciousness based on the analysis of transitions between electroencephalographic (EEG) microstates. As a measurable parameter, we use connectivity — the average probability of microstate switching — which reflects the dynamical flexibility of the system. Using data from the open longitudinal Dortmund Vital Study...
There is limited or indirect evidence suggesting that combined use of MDMA and SSRIs may increase the risk of serotonin syndrome. Healthcare providers should be vigilant in identifying symptoms and discourage such drug interactions.
This paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, a conceptual and methodological framework for reinterpreting consciousness as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. Rather than treating consciousness as an inner foundation, metaphysical origin, or detached observer, the paper argues that consciousness may be understood as an access-field in which bodily...
Consciousness research has developed primarily around information integration, global availability, prediction, recurrent processing, higher-order representation, and neural correlates. These approaches have clarified important aspects of conscious experience. Yet they tend to focus on how information appears, is processed, stabilized, or made available. They have paid less attention to the...
Time is typically treated as an unexamined background for intelligence. This paper inverts that perspective by asking what becomes of intelligence when the conditions that enable intelligent processes are progressively stripped away. We construct two minimal models of intelligence—a functional model derived from philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, and an abstract...