This paper explores the relationship between bioelectricity, consciousness, and legal personhood,using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a recurring thematic anchor. Beginning with LuigiGalvani's foundational experiments in electrophysiology and their cultural echo in Shelley's novel, the paper traces how electrical activity in the brain underlies not only basic neural communication but also...
This article examines Bhakti, the path of devotional surrender in Indian philosophy, alongside genuine, peer-reviewed scientific research relevant to its central psychological claims. It surveys the three-Yoga framework (Karma, Jnana, Bhakti) and Bhakti's foundational textual sources — the Narada Bhakti Sutras, the Shandilya Bhakti Sutras, the Bhagavata Purana's Navavidha Bhakti, and the...
Recursive Loop Lineage is a speculative philosophical whitepaper exploring the relationship between biological consciousness, symbolic meaning, synthetic intelligence, and future forms of recursive cognition. The paper argues that humans and artificial intelligence should not be understood as absolute opposites, but as different branches of a broader lineage of self-organizing information...
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has transformed human attention into a valuable economic resource, giving rise to what scholars describe as the attention economy. In urban India, where internet penetration, smartphone usage, and algorithm-driven platforms have become integral to everyday life, concerns regarding digital distraction, surveillance, and declining attentional well-being...
The brain’s ability to rewire itself, neuroplasticity, declines dramatically with age. Children learn faster; adults get stuck in patterns; older adults struggle to adapt. The reasons for this decline remain unclear. In a companion paper (Solis, 2026a), I critically evaluated the broad hypothesis that N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) has endogenous physiological functions. The evidence was found to...
This paper presents a systematic critical review of consciousness science from the formulation of the hard problem (Chalmers, 1995) to the present (2025). Using a methodology of primary source verification and explicit epistemic stratification — distinguishing established findings from debated results and speculative proposals — we map four theoretical frameworks (Integrated Information Theory,...
This paper proposes the PsyCreativity Protocol (PCP) — a structured, transdisciplinary framework for facilitating creativity through intentional, ethically guided psychedelic experiences. The PCP responds to a specific and persistent gap in that literature: the absence of practitioner-oriented frameworks addressing how, when, and under what conditions psychedelics may be most productively...
This paper introduces a theoretical framework for the architectural design of self-aware artificial systems. Building upon the neurobiological foundations of homeostasis established by Antonio Damasio, I argue that consciousness is not an emergent metaphysical anomaly, but a mandatory functional requirement for the survival of complex systems. I propose an architecture consisting of three...
This study offers a comprehensive analysis of David Bohm’s article “A New Theory of the Relationship of Mind and Matter” (Philosophical Psychology, 1990) — one of the most original attempts of the twentieth century to overcome Cartesian dualism on a physical foundation. The paper proceeds in sequence through the historical context of the mind–body problem, the physical basis of the causal...
Preprint — not peer reviewed Abstract Claims about organized interiority, consciousness-relevant organization, and cross-substrate equivalence are often advanced through broad resemblance to markers such as integration, recurrence, synchrony, adaptive behavior, or substrate-specific dynamics. Such features may be scientifically informative, but their presence alone does not establish an...
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist is one of the most influential spiritual narratives of contemporary literature, celebrated for its philosophical insights into destiny, self-discovery, and human fulfillment. The novel chronicles the transformative journey of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd whose search for worldly treasure evolves into a profound quest for spiritual enlightenment and...
This article examines the hard problem of consciousness, as defined by David Chalmers in his 1995 paper, against five distinct, philosophically rigorous positions developed within the Indian philosophical tradition over approximately 2,500 years, while giving full, undiminished weight to the current empirical state of consciousness science. It reviews the 2025 Cogitate Consortium adversarial...
David Chalmers’ 'hard problem' of consciousness—how subjective experience arises from physical processes—has dominated philosophy of mind for decades. This paper argues that the hard problem is not a problem at all, but a category error—a confusion between classical and second-order cybernetic questions. By treating consciousness as an object to be explained from a third-person perspective,...
The human body possesses enzymatic machinery to both synthesize and rapidly degrade N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). This coexistence raises a question: does DMT serve an endogenous function, or is it a metabolic byproduct with no physiological role? DMT is structurally almost identical to serotonin and binds to the same serotonin receptors. Serotonin is universally accepted as a neurotransmitter...
The paper is the third article in the Pali-Psycho series. It compares the Pali Canon with the Desert Fathers, Rhineland Mysticism, Carmelite Mysticism, and Ignatian Spirituality. The analysis uses the convergence-type schema developed in the preceding integrative article and distinguishes empirical, structural-phenomenological, conceptual, and no-parallel relations. The central result is...
Why should being alive matter for consciousness? Theories grounded in self-maintenance argue that conscious systems are distinguished by the need to remain viable in a changing world. What this requirement contributes, mechanistically, has remained unclear. A companion paper argued that self-reference alone is sufficient for something private to arise: a system whose present state recursively...
Contemporary cosmopsychism—including priority cosmopsychism (Shani; Nagasawa and Wager) and Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism—treats the cosmic subject as prior and actual, and so inherits the decombination problem: How does one complete cosmic consciousness divide into many private subjects? This essay argues that the difficulty stems from a tacit temporal assumption—that the One precedes...
Contemporary cosmopsychism—including priority cosmopsychism (Shani; Nagasawa and Wager) and Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism—treats the cosmic subject as prior and actual, and so inherits the decombination problem: how does one complete cosmic consciousness divide into many private subjects? This essay traces the difficulty to a tacit temporal assumption—that the One precedes the many—and...
The paper is Article 1 of the Pali-Psycho series. It focuses on the empirical and clinical comparison axis: mindfulness, breath meditation, compassion cultivation, absorption states, affect labeling, default-mode-network findings, and selected positive-psychology parallels are treated as modern comparison points for Pali-canonical practice architectures. The central result is deliberately...
AbstractThe “entropic brain” hypothesis holds that psychedelic and other ego-dissolving states correspondto an increase in the entropy or signal diversity of spontaneous brain activity. Motivated by afirst-person report of a combined serotonergic–dissociative state (LSD/DMT together with nitrousoxide, N2O), we asked a sharper question: when a 5-HT2A agonist and an NMDA antagonist acttogether,...
This preprint introduces the Organismic Projection Thesis (OPT), a conceptual framework in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The central claim is that the human subject should not be understood as consciousness inhabiting an organism, but as an organism that, under physiological conditions, generates a bounded conscious projection of world, self, and duration. The paper does not aim to...
This report presents a detailed phenomenological analysis of a self-observed psilocybin experience conducted under controlled conditions and documented through contemporaneous notes and post-session reconstruction. The study focuses on the structure of subjective experience rather than on pharmacological outcomes alone. Particular attention is given to alterations in bodily awareness, spatial...
This paper identifies a structural explanatory gap in cognitive-scientific and functionalist accounts of mind: the problem of first-personal individuation. Even a complete functional description of a conscious system leaves open the question of what makes a given perspective belong to one subject rather than another — a difficulty I term the individuation gap, which is distinct from, and not...
This paper develops the thesis that the decisive discontinuity in nature was not first the emergence of life and then, separately, the emergence of consciousness, but rather the invention of the boundary: the appearance of a membrane that separated an interior from an exterior. A bounded system is no longer a mere portion of matter among other portions of matter. It becomes a unit whose...
Claims about artificial consciousness increasingly combine behavioural performance, computational description, neuroscientific theory, philosophical possibility, physical analogy, and religious or spiritual interpretation. Interdisciplinarity is valuable, but it becomes scientifically unstable when evidence from one domain is used to validate a conclusion in another without an explicit,...