Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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Technological systems may make minds or mind-like processes copyable, branchable, pausable, restorable, mergeable, and substrate-portable. Those possibilities destabilize moral intuitions calibrated to biologically singular lives. This paper develops Terminability as a substrate-neutral framework for asking what an ending would irreversibly destroy. Its central object is not a species,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Nityananda Das Adhikari
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Abstract: The history of Indian yogic practice is not confined to any single philosophy, tradition, or text. Although the Pātañjala Yogasūtra is a major work of Indian Yoga, systematic practices concerning ethical restraint, sense-control, meditative posture, mindfulness of breathing, concentration, meditation, samādhi, cessation, and liberating wisdom are independently attested in early...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Ajay Hagan
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Self-related capacities, such as modelling one's own states, telling one's own activity from external input and recognizing one's own past, are proposed as indicators of machine consciousness. We ask whether such indicators can tell a self from a system that merely carries information about itself. For each capacity we build the test, the cheapest mechanism that passes it, an outside observer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Juan Segurola
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ENGLISH An intense experience can have profound personal meaning without, on that basis alone, demonstrating functional benefit, a causal mechanism, or generalizable efficacy. This interdisciplinary conceptual essay distinguishes three inferential transitions: from lived experience to benefit, from observed improvement to causal attribution, and from an individual case to a general rule. It...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Rabindranath Hati
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Abstract: In this short research paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the nature of consciousness in the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. The study begins by examining how and why existential philosophy emerged, alongside an inquiry into its fundamental nature. It subsequently delves into the core theme of Sartre’s existentialism—the nature of consciousness—providing a thorough...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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The term consciousness is used for partially overlapping targets: subjective experience, wakeful state, cognitive access, reportability, metacognition, functional organization, self-modeling, and forms of meaning or stake participation. When a discussion shifts among these targets without notice, apparent disagreements can be produced by lexical equivocation or invalid transfer of properties...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
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Human consciousness does not encounter reality in its totality. It operates through a bounded phenomenal field: a selective, perspectival presentation of visual, auditory, bodily, emotional, and conceptual contents. Although this field is often described metaphorically as a camera view, theater, or movie screen, such language need not imply a literal internal observer. It instead draws...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Alexandros Schismenos
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This paper argues that the central problem posed by contemporary artificial intelligence is not whether computational systems can reproduce the observable functions of human cognition, but whether their expanding integration into social institutions encourages a reduction of human judgment, creativity, and collective autonomy to measurable and optimizable processes. I address Geoffrey Hinton’s...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Sara Regina da Silva Teixeira, Djailton Pereira da Cunha
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O presente estudo tem como objetivo cartografar experiências com a ayahuasca, acompanhando motivações e mudanças na cosmovisão e no estilo de vida narradas por praticantes do Santo Daime. Justifica-se a relevância da pesquisa pela necessidade de investigar saberes tradicionais e modos plurais de produção de cuidado diante do cenário contemporâneo marcado por crescente adoecimento mental. O...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
John Hansen
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The Mirror Hypothesis proposes that reflection, understood in a broad, non-psychological sense as interaction, feedback and the way the consequences of a process shape the conditions under which it continues, may be more fundamental than consciousness itself. The paper explores whether physical, biological, neural and experiential forms of organization can be studied as expressions of a shared...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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Description / Abstract (English) Human civilizations have developed diverse religions, philosophical traditions, and systems of knowledge to understand existence, consciousness, life, truth, and liberation. Concepts such as Brahman in Advaita Vedanta, Nirvana in Buddhist traditions, emptiness (Śūnyatā) in Madhyamaka, Kevala Jñāna in Jain philosophy, and Tao in Taoist thought emerge within...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Jewelle Mhae
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Your original contribution The Scenario Builder: A Theoretical Framework Linking Daydreaming and Dream Immersion is a conceptual hypothesis by Jewelle Ballesteros. It proposes that the brain has no true off switch: the same scenario-building system that produces spontaneous thoughts, questions, and daydreams during the day keeps running during sleep, where it combines memories, emotions,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
John C. Matylonek
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The Evolution of Moral Value: From Self-Maintaining Systems to Symbolic Rights develops Evolutionary Value Theory (EVT), an interdisciplinary framework examining how biological regulation, conscious experience, social recognition, moral claims, and institutional rights may be connected. Drawing on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, moral philosophy, jurisprudence, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Morteza Niami
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Abstract: The question of whether human beings genuinely choose or merely experience the effects of antecedent causes remains central to philosophy of action, moral philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. I argue that this question becomes confused when several distinct concepts are treated as interchangeable: free will, practical choice, freedom from constraint, agency, and the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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This is the third of seven papers in the M⁵ Life Programme. Paper 1 specified a daily practice of 108 natural breaths, and Paper 2 a sequence for exploring perception, feeling, thought, and action within meditation. Neither says what it would mean for that practice to carry into ordinary life, where events arrive with stakes, in company, and under time pressure. This paper proposes an answer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Pranay M. Mahendrakar
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(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research When a language model says it is experiencing something, a standard objection holds that the sentence reflects human first-person writing in its training data and is no evidence of anything inside the model; a 2026 paper sharpens this into a named fallacy. In this analysis the author reviews and synthesises published...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Matthias Gruber
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It is widely held that the explanandum of consciousness science is adequately fixed by phenomenological characterisation (Nagel's "something it is like" and its kin), so that no further definition is needed before theories are compared, and functional or architectural formulations are to be judged as hypotheses about that fixed target. This holds for the uncontested cases. For the cases that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
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Psychology promises to study the human person, yet consciousness itself lacks a widely accepted quantitative framework. Here we introduce the Holographic Coding Framework (HCF), a theory-specified computational approach to subjective experience and consciousness–carrier interaction. Built on four explicit design assumptions, HCF defines life fluency (H) as the product of carrier integration...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Paola Pela, Anna Borrasi, Chiara Gentilozzi
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This paper offers a reflection centred on the synergy between Mindfulness-based Self-Awareness Workshops, Digital Storytelling and Generative Artificial Intelligence in contemporary educational contexts. The aim is to investigate the implications for students' individual and collective identity exploration processes and for the development of critical, reflective and emotionally oriented...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Shizuka Itou
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This paper presents a formal mathematical and computational model of the subjective states of clarity, focused intention, and unwavering conviction experienced during sustained traditional chanting. Extending our previous bio-physical framework of microtubule coherence, we model the brain as a hierarchical predictive processing system operating under the Free Energy Principle (FEP). We propose...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Deliberate thinking is limited in capacity, in time, and by the opportunity cost of every allocation, yet perception offers far more than reflection can address. This article asks how an encounter becomes worth that investment and when it ceases to be. Beginning from the experience of looking at scenery, it examines how memory, feeling, purposes, and salience shape what becomes an object of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Pablo Iturralde, Marcel Pierrelouis, Juan Salvador Hurtado-Silva
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A companion paper argued that biological memory is a third kind of record, neither kept intact nor erased but retained and rewritten by its own consultation, and gave this a readout-write channel on the record in which a consultation opens the record when prediction error crosses a threshold. That channel has no time in it: the gate opens or does not at the instant of reading. Real records do...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Jewelle Mhae
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This paper presents a conceptual developmental framework exploring how human children transition from imitation-based learning to independent, self-directed thought. Rather than treating consciousness as an all-or-nothing switch, this hypothesis proposes that meta-self-awareness—the capacity to reflect on one's own mind while recognizing that others possess distinct perspectives—emerges...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Francesco Fischetti, Davide Masi, Stefania Cataldi
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Twenty-first-century digital technologies and prolonged screen time are significantly altering human behavior, replacing physical presence with virtual interactions and leading to a degradation of the "bodily self". This increasingly sedentary lifestyle is directly linked to widespread incorrect posture and musculoskeletal pain among young adults, rendering them highly vulnerable to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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This is the second of seven papers in the M⁵ Life Programme. Paper 1, the 108 Breath Awareness Method, gives formal practice a boundary and treats whatever else arises (sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts, urges to move) mainly as an occasion to return to the breath. It offers no instruction for examining that material, and existing practices cover it only in part: the body scan addresses...