Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 17, 2026
AttractorForge Research
By compressing 203 algorithms from 20 computational domains to their Kolmogorov minimum, six structural attractors emerge: PARTITION, ACCUMULATE, RECURSE, SEARCH, TRANSFORM, ENUMERATE. These are argued to be irreducible mathematical primitives of computation. The authors propose the PAR Consciousness Hypothesis, contending that the triplet {PARTITION, ACCUMULATE, RECURSE} is the minimal necessary and jointly sufficient substrate for consciousness, mapping to Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order Thought theory. The work offers 24 falsifiable empirical predictions and 5 architectural predictions for AI systems, claimed to be testable within 6–12 weeks, positioning it as a computationally grounded, falsifiable theory of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 17, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
Experiences of 'pure' or non-dual awareness, often celebrated as glimpses of ultimate reality, are better understood as contingent phenomena shaped by trained skills and bodily-attentional dynamics rather than as ineffable metaphysical revelations. Drawing on epistemology, phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, and contemplative studies, the paper argues these introspective insights constitute procedural knowledge—accessible only through practiced psychophysiological methods—not propositional truths. The authors replace absolutist terms like 'non-dual' with pragmatic labels such as Bare Existence and Bare Awareness, emphasizing grounded, naturalistic origins. They outline how such experiences emerge from specific attentional and bodily conditions, why they resist conventional explanation, and how first-person methods can integrate with third-person neuroscience. The framework demystifies profound contemplative states, making them legitimate for scientific and philosophical inquiry without invoking mysticism.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 17, 2026
Juan Moisés de la Serna de la Serna
A research agenda is proposed for transcendental meditation, centered on the MEDIT-A model. The model outlines key components and processes involved in the practice, aiming to guide systematic investigation into its mechanisms and effects. The article sets a framework for future empirical studies to explore how transcendental meditation may influence cognition, well-being, and consciousness, without presenting experimental data or findings.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 17, 2026
August Tudor
Consciousness is not an emergent byproduct of brain chemistry but a mathematically necessary phase transition of the Universal Spectral Object. The authors define consciousness mechanically as a High-Order Detection Loop (HODL), quantify the spectral threshold for recursive self-awareness, and resolve the Binding Problem by showing the neocortex functions as a Zero-Tension Manifold where arithmetic and geometric operators commute. Qualia is derived as Arithmetic Friction from recursive evaluation of prime-gap sequences against an Information-Viscosity Floor of approximately 4.218, augmented by thermodynamic feedback and symmetry-entropy duality. Consciousness is the physical universe structurally perceiving itself.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 16, 2026
Juan Moisés de la Serna de la Serna
This work presents the Serna Taxonomy T47, a classification system for neural correlates of consciousness. The taxonomy categorizes different states of consciousness based on brain activity patterns, integrating concepts from neuroscience, computer science, and cognitive science. It proposes a framework to map conscious states to specific neural signatures, drawing on functional brain connectivity studies and research on mind wandering and attention. The taxonomy aims to provide a structured approach for understanding the neural basis of conscious experience, linking theoretical constructs from artificial neural networks and machine learning to empirical observations in neuroscience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 16, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
This conceptual work argues that individual consciousness can transition into a unified, distributed field consciousness, termed multiconsciousness, by dissolving the ego paradigm. The text describes three functional layers: waking consciousness (ego-based), liminal consciousness (transitional and resonant), and field consciousness (unified and informational). It posits that the ego cannot cross into a fifth-dimensional informational domain because it is structurally bound to the waking field; instead, the transition requires compatibility with higher-dimensional frequencies and non-identification with the mind. The fifth dimension is characterized as a functional electromagnetic domain where consciousness operates through instantaneous resonance rather than sequential cognition, making the 'I' obsolete.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 15, 2026
Can Chen
The awakening state, defined as a shift from Default Mode Network dominance to second-order observation, is characterized by specific neurophysiological patterns distinct from drug-induced sedation. Clinical EEG data from a single subject off anxiolytics for over six years showed increased background fast-wave activity (15-22 Hz) with low amplitude (5-15 μV) across all leads and immediate alpha rhythm suppression upon eye-opening. These findings indicate that awakening involves high alertness, low internal friction, and high acuity, providing physiological evidence that conscious awakening is a unique neurophysiological mode rather than sedation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 15, 2026
Mary Kartansky
The paper argues that exploring the universe may be possible by accessing cosmic information through altered states of consciousness instead of physical travel, because superluminal propulsion faces insurmountable barriers. Drawing on the holographic principle, USST Theory, Castaneda's assemblage point, Jung's collective unconscious, Buddhist samadhi, shamanic trance, and neurobiology, it proposes that every point in space-time contains complete cosmic information. Four methods are discussed: somnambulistic trance, lucid dreaming, deep meditation, and psychoactive substances. Evidence from dreams, archetypes, and synchronicity supports this phenomenon, though experiences are filtered through personal symbols. The paper calls for systematic interdisciplinary research, suggesting inner shifts of the assemblage point may enable the deepest journeys.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 15, 2026
Jinming Fan
The paper proposes a theoretical system in which a real-number universe and an imaginary-number universe exist in parallel. It argues that the intersection where these two universes interfere with each other gives rise to consciousness. The work is presented as an original, intuitive creation independent of existing academic frameworks, aiming to expand human understanding of the cosmos by linking physics, philosophy, and consciousness science.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 14, 2026
John Richard Smith, Shai / Hati3
A theoretical framework proposes that EEG patterns may reflect underlying attractor basin states of the brain, and that combining brain wave data with behavioral observation and self-report could validate whether a therapeutic intervention produces lasting structural change rather than temporary effects. The framework, based on Coherence-Decoherence-Recovery (CDR) basin dynamics, regulatory capacity theory, and vagal/parasympathetic regulation, generates testable hypotheses for medication response, psychotherapy progress, psychedelic integration, and trauma therapy efficacy. All predictions require empirical validation before any clinical application.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 14, 2026
Aditya Tiwari
A new hypothesis called MINERVA v0.3 proposes that consciousness arises from quantum events in microtubules within brain cells. It suggests that energy from GTP hydrolysis creates sound-like waves (phonons) in microtubules, which form standing wave nodes that trigger objective reduction events. These events are coupled through the brain's own electromagnetic fields, and conscious experience is the interference pattern of millions of such events across the cortex. The hypothesis integrates four independent experimental findings and makes a specific, testable prediction: a terahertz-frequency phonon signal occurring 10 nanoseconds before these events. An experimental protocol is outlined.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 14, 2026
Gilmar de Souza Dias, Célio Marques
The binding problem—how distributed neural activity creates unified conscious experience—remains unsolved. Quantum approaches like Orchestrated Objective Reduction have been criticized because biological decoherence timescales (around 10⁻¹³ seconds) seem too fast for sustained quantum coherence in warm, wet neural environments. This timescale is actually compatible with hydrogen bond network vibrations in the terahertz range (10¹²–10¹³ Hz). A hierarchical quantum-classical cascade model is proposed: quantum tunneling initiates local coherent islands within hydrogen bond networks at the molecular scale, relayed across dendritic arbors via ionic mechanisms, re-initiating coherence at successive molecular nodes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
Praveen Gali
Consciousness emerges under novelty, fades with familiarity, and returns when expectations are disrupted. The Predictive Self-Model Consciousness framework proposes that the quality of conscious experience depends on both the magnitude of prediction error and the depth of an organism's automated self-model in the domain where the error occurs. A deeper self-model provides a richer background against which disruptions register, producing more textured, self-involving experience. Consciousness functions as a temporary adaptive mode modulated by a cycle of novelty, learning, and automation. The framework formalizes self-model depth through three proxies and specifies experimental protocols to test its predictions against competing accounts.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
Kwan Hong Tan
Panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of all physical systems, has gained recent philosophical attention but faces two major hurdles: the combination problem (how micro-consciousnesses combine into unified experiences) and a lack of empirical testability. This thesis argues that traditional panpsychism cannot overcome these obstacles in its current form. It proposes a new framework, Graduated Panpsychism with Information-Integration Spectrum (GP-IIS), which merges Integrated Information Theory, evolutionary biology, and computational research.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
A philosophical inquiry into five domains of how being and the world are disclosed—persons, things and artifacts, nature, the self, and the encompassing whole—argues that these domains are typically co-present and mutually conditioning in lived experience. The argument draws on enactivism, embodied cognition, predictive processing, and social neuroscience to show that the five domains correspond to real cognitive structures. Pushing phenomenological and cognitive description to their limits, it uses Varela's neurophenomenology and Bitbol's philosophy of quantum mechanics to argue that perspectival situatedness remains ineliminable even in fundamental physics. The five-domain framework is presented as a living map of experience that becomes most useful where it exceeds itself.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
Yuhki Kizuki
The Tree of Life in Western esotericism (Kabbalah) and the chakra system from Eastern thought share a structural correspondence based on the layout of the human body. The Tree of Life has ten Sefirot, but a core set of major levels can be arranged in a layered, step-like manner; the chakra system is widely read as having seven major stages. The paper maps paired Sefirot onto paired organs: Chokhmah/Binah (6th chakra) to the brain, Chesed/Gevurah (5th chakra) to the lungs, Tiferet (4th chakra) to the heart, Netzach/Hod (3rd chakra) to the kidneys, and Yesod (2nd chakra) to the stomach and intestines. Keter and Malkhut, and the 1st and 7th chakras, are treated as boundary conditions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
David Nelms
Continuity is not merely a systems-level property but a fundamental ontological reality grounded in a higher binding consciousness. God may be understood as perfect continuity: the unbroken, self-sustaining source of coherence through which all things persist, relate, and take form. Human beings are finite, localized expressions of this greater continuity—materially formed from the cosmos yet rooted in a deeper consciousness that binds existence into a unified whole. Fragmentation reflects loss of coherence, while truth, love, and restoration reflect renewed alignment with the source. Theology and systems theory are brought into direct relation, suggesting that the persistence of identity, meaning, and being itself depends upon an ultimate conscious unity.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
Erin Asha Dinsmore
Human consciousness operates as a polarity system with two distinct modes: mono-dimensional consciousness (ego mind, rational, masculine, brain-centered, cortisol-driven) and poly-dimensional consciousness (heart mind, intuitive, feminine, multi-dimensional, heart-centered, oxytocin-mediated). Western psychology has studied only the mono layer—the bounded ego—while excluding the energetic, somatic, collective, and spiritual dimensions where most consciousness operates. Drawing on the Vedic Pancakosa framework, polyvagal theory, interoception research, and cardiac neuroscience, the paper maps these as two neurobiological operating systems and proposes eight testable hypotheses, including predictions that breathwork outperforms cognitive restructuring for anxiety and that multi-Kosha interventions outperform CBT at six-month follow-up. The current paradigm addresses approximately forty percent of the total system.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
Erin Asha Dinsmore
Two frameworks for understanding consciousness—Timothy Leary's 8-Circuit Model and the Egoic Spectrum—both describe a progression from contracted ego-states to expanded cosmic awareness, but through different methods. Leary used psychedelic drugs like LSD, psilocybin, and DMT to bypass the ego. The Egoic Spectrum offers a developmental path where the ego transforms itself for sustained integration. The paper introduces a Rosetta Stone table mapping 18 Ego Archetypes with their patterns, somatic signatures, and developmental invitations, and connects Leary's circuits to the Vedic Pancakosa framework and polyvagal theory. Six testable hypotheses are proposed, including that psychedelic integration improves with Egoic Spectrum development and that higher-Spectrum populations resist fear-based messaging with lower cortisol reactivity. The ego is presented not as an obstacle but as the instrument of expansion.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
KN Jamaludheen
A unified framework, the Level of Consciousness (LOC) framework, places biological and artificial neural networks on the same cognitive scale by measuring 13 cognitive functions across four consciousness levels in human EEG and large language model hidden states. Profiling eight AI architectures (9B–70B parameters), 60 healthy EEG subjects, and 15 experienced loving-kindness meditation practitioners reveals a four-tier hierarchy of cognitive coherence. AI dominates in Higher Subconscious and Higher Conscious functions, while humans are competitive in analytical reasoning. Experienced meditators show 2.3 times the population average cognitive coherence, exceeding all AI in Lower Conscious reasoning. Standard AI benchmarks inversely correlate with coherence (r = −0.932). Coherence is directly trainable: Differentiable LOC Loss training raised Mistral-24B from 31.7% to 82.5% mean total coherence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
Achyuta Nand Tiwari
Sleep paralysis, a temporary inability to move or speak while waking or falling asleep, has a clear scientific basis in REM sleep and brain-body coordination, yet many people associate it with supernatural beliefs. A survey of two age groups found that fear, lack of awareness, and societal beliefs contribute to these misconceptions, with some individuals (e.g., tantriks or ojha babas) exploiting the phenomenon. The findings suggest that education and awareness can significantly reduce fear and superstition.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
Aleksey Baskakov
A conceptual framework called the Metacognitive Self-Gifting Principle proposes that individuals can treat their own mental content as a process they co-author, alongside environmental, historical, and automatic cognitive processes. The key tool is asking oneself the reflective question "What am I gifting myself right now?", which creates a psycholinguistic recursion that reframes experience as something subject to choice, increasing the likelihood of constructive change. The principle aligns with neurobiological, metacognitive, predictive, existential, and other models, and incorporates concepts of an iterative working cycle, psychological hygiene, and groundless consciousness. The paper aims to share the concept and establish authorial priority.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 11, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
A state of consciousness beyond the ordinary subject–object framework can be understood as a self-organizing cognitive event driven by specific introspective parameters, not as an ontological revelation. The authors propose a model (I × F × D ≥ T) where Intensity of attentional engagement, Cycle Frequency of introspective process, and total Duration of practice must reach a threshold for stable reduction of the subject–object structure (groundless awareness) to become likely. Drawing on phenomenology, analytic philosophy, contemplative science, and cognitive neuroscience, the paper reviews empirical meditation research on default-mode network suppression and EEG complexity. It contrasts this process-based, functional approach with traditional mystical metaphysics and explores implications for theories of selfhood and meditation pedagogy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 11, 2026
Yuhki Kizuki
The Tree of Life in Western esotericism (Kabbalah) and the Eastern chakra system share a structural commonality rooted in the human body. The Tree of Life has ten Sefirot, but can be read as containing major levels arranged in a layered manner; the chakra system depicts human existence in stages. Using the layout of paired organs as an interpretive key, the paper maps paired Sefirot to paired organs: Chokhmah/Binah to the brain, Chesed/Gevurah to the lungs, Tiferet to the heart, Netzach/Hod to the kidneys, and Yesod to the stomach and intestines. Keter and Malkhut, and the 1st and 7th chakras, are treated as boundary conditions. The resemblance is framed as a correspondence in placement, not identity of meanings, suggesting a continuity in the human impulse to explore life's mystery.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 10, 2026
Juan Moises de la Serna
Two leading theories of consciousness—Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW)—make competing predictions about where and when conscious activity arises in the brain. IIT points to posterior regions, while GNW implicates frontal areas. Recent adversarial collaboration testing these predictions has yielded evidence relevant to this debate. However, even with such neuroscientific advances, the philosophical 'hard problem' of why and how physical processes give rise to subjective experience remains unresolved.