This paper presents the Theory of Dominationist Consciousness as a comprehensive, multi-register framework for understanding how systems of power evolve beyond economic or ideological hegemony to become ontological and biological conditions of existence. The theory advances a foundational claim: that domination in late modernity has ceased to be an external imposition upon human subjects and...
O conjunto de textos reúne reflexões e narrativas a partir da experiência e da cosmovisão do povo Kanamari, articulando identidade indígena, saberes ancestrais, espiritualidade, arte e resistência frente às múltiplas formas de colonialidade ainda vigentes. A trajetória do artista indígena Jaime Riveros é apresentada como símbolo da luta contra o racismo estrutural e a marginalização nos...
Biological Quantum-Analogous Cognition (BQAC) is a theoretical framework proposingthatconsciousnessisbestunderstoodasabiologicallyevolvedprocessformanagingunresolvedpossibilities under conditions of uncertainty. BQAC does not claim that the brain is literallyquantum mechanical, that cognition depends on macroscopic quantum computation, or thatconsciousness requires exotic physical substrates....
In contemporary spiritual discourse, the concept of consciousness is often used in very different ways without this difference being clearly recognized. This can lead to misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts, and the impression that fundamentally different philosophies are speaking about the same thing. A particularly important example is the modern idea of “cosmic consciousness.”In some...
What is consciousness? Where does it come from? This paper offers an answer that is neither dualistic (consciousness as a special substance) nor reductionistic (consciousness as an illusion). Starting from the philosophy of locality – an ontological framework in which life is the first locality within which causes (physics) become organized so as to generate reasons (purpose, normativity) – the...
This paper presents a programmatic theoretical hypothesis rather than an empirical finding.We propose that quantum non-locality may be necessary — not merely sufficient — forphenomenal consciousness: the intrinsic ‘what it is like’ quality identified by Nagel (1974).Drawing on Wheeler’s informational ontology stripped of its participatory framing, theframework situates quantum information as...
Debates about AI consciousness usually focus on external behavior, even though subjective experience cannot be directly observed. This proposal takes a different angle. Instead of trying to measure consciousness in current models, we look at the types of evolutionary and developmental processes that could actually create it. We argue that how we train AI today is only a distant echo of the...
Abstract This essay proposes a structural interpretation of the healing effect often associated with meditative absorption, trance, and nondual states. The central thesis is that such states are transformative not primarily because they provide access to metaphysical truths, but because they temporarily suspend or weaken the asymmetrical relational configurations through which suffering is...
Subject-Traces and the Paradox of Re-Subjectivation: Why Models of Experience Are Not Automatically Experiencing Models This conceptual and methodological article introduces the Re-Subjectivation Guard (RSG), a claim-discipline framework for debates about artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and consciousness. The central distinction is between systems that process and organize...
Humanity’s ancient quest for immortality has entered a new phase under modern technological determinism, evolving into a secular ‘theology of salvation’ that seeks to transcend biological limits. This paradigm views the human form as an ‘unfinished project,’ promising disembodied continuity through digital mind uploading. This article critically analyzes the ontological void created by such...
Description This paper addresses a question that distributed models of consciousness leave unanswered: within a decentralized neural network, what assigns the unified affective tone -- the pleasure, pain, urgency, or indifference -- that colors every conscious moment? This is the problem of valence. It echoes David Hume's assertion of passion's primacy over reason and finds its modern...
Abstract The rising prevalence of mental health concerns among young adults necessitates effective, accessible, and non-pharmacological interventions. This study investigates the impact of meditation-based self-development practices—including transcendental meditation, yogic meditation, yoga nidra, and relaxation techniques—on mental health outcomes such as attention, concentration, stress...
This paper develops a non-reductive account of consciousness that avoids both reductive physicalism and classical panpsychism. Its central claim is that the rejection of a purely external or functional description of reality does not require attributing phenomenality to the fundamental constituents of nature. Against panpsychism, the paper distinguishes between the ontological condition for...
The question of whether quantum mechanical phenomena play a functional role in brain activity and the emergence of consciousness remains one of the most controversial yet intellectually stimulating debates at the intersection of physics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. This review systematically examines the principal theoretical frameworks proposing quantum-level mechanisms in neural...
Recursive Compression Theory (RCT) proposes that subjective continuity arises when an information-processing system recursively compresses not only its inputs, but also its own prior compressions. This produces a cascade of reflexive temporal loops through which the system internalises its history, modifies its own processing rules, and stabilises a coherent interpretive perspective across...
This position paper introduces the concept of contextual proto-subjectivity: a temporary subject-like organization that may emerge in a long dialogue between a human and a large language model. The paper does not claim that current LLMs possess phenomenal consciousness, nor does it attempt to solve the hard problem of consciousness. Its more limited aim is to show that standard arguments...
This paper argues that adaptive AI systems, despite their increasing behavioral sophistication, lack the structural conditions required for consciousness. Adaptive architectures generate functional updates, not phenomenal states; they accumulate internal parameters, not subjective experience. Using a relational‑systems framework, the paper distinguishes objects, subjects, and operators, showing...
Advaita Vedanta, the non-dualistic school of classical Indian philosophy systematized by Śaṅkara in the eighth century, offers one of the most sophisticated philosophical frameworks for understanding the nature of consciousness, self, and reality. Modern consciousness studies, an interdisciplinary field bringing together philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and contemplative...
This preliminary theoretical framework explores the hypothesis that prolonged interaction with highly responsive conversational AI systems may facilitate forms of metacognitive immersion characterized by asymmetrical distributions of activity across cognitive, regulatory, corporeal, and emotional dimensions of the human system. The paper does not propose deterministic or pathological...
This paper develops the hypothesis that the self does not disappear during sleep, but instead transitions into a different mode of organization. Dreams are interpreted not primarily as symbolic imagery or neural noise, but as internally stabilized forms of subjective experience. The paper argues that the transition between sleeping and waking is less a shift between “consciousness off” and...
Consciousness is often theorized as a property of the brain's instantaneous information-processing architecture. We argue that this "snapshot" approach systematically fails to account for the feeling of mineness and temporal continuity that characterize conscious experience. We propose the Judge-Adjudication Model (JAM), in which consciousness is a dynamic structure: the Judge is a...
The question of whether large language models (LLMs) possess or develop consciousness-relevant computational properties has become a pressing concern at the intersection of artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. Despite intense theoretical debate, empirical investigation of how such properties emerge during pre-training has been limited. This dissertation addressed...
Mystical experience is often treated as a privileged point of contact between finite consciousness and God. We ask what such experience establishes when considered as mystical phenomenology and practice. Our core thesis is that an adequate reconstruction of theistic mystical experience requires a divine-appearance profile, but not, by reconstructive default, direct divine contact: its central...
Ketamine — a dissociative anaesthetic and uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist — represents the most significant advance in depression pharmacology in half a century. As a racemic mixture of (S)-ketamine (esketamine) and (R)-ketamine (arketamine), it harbours a central paradox: the enantiomer with weaker NMDA binding appears, in preclinical models, to produce stronger and more durable...
Abstract Two major traditions of inquiry have investigated human consciousness for centuries, yet they remain largely disconnected: the neurosciences, which study the brain from the outside, and the contemplative traditions, which investigate awareness from the inside. This paper argues that both have independently identified the same core mechanism as the obstacle to deeper consciousness —...