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July 17, 2026
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A mathematical framework models the structure and dynamics of conscious experience using a geometric space for conscious configurations, a Hilbert space for contextuality and meaning interference, and a field theory for evolving patterns. It includes a generator of cognitive dynamics, a non-unitary mechanism for insight, and a synchronicity index measuring integration across perceptual, conceptual, and affective components. The model connects with quantum cognition, neurophenomenology, predictive processing, and neuronal integration theories, and it offers empirical predictions and falsifiable implications.
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July 17, 2026
Huan Huo
The paper proposes that consciousness, rather than being a mysterious subjective experience, can be understood as a specific type of information processing architecture whose mechanisms can be deconstructed, simulated, and transferred. It attempts to model the thinking architecture of the entire human ethnic group, covering the generation of autonomous consciousness (the "I"), information architecture patterns under different states, mathematical formalization of consciousness, mechanisms behind thinking patterns of special populations, and engineering pathways from a digital perspective. The author contends that consciousness has informational attributes and that, with mature technology, it could be digitally uploaded to a new carrier while potentially preserving continuity of subjectivity and memory. Brain-computer interfaces and virtualization of the Drosophila whole-brain connectome are cited as preliminary demonstrations of feasibility.
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July 17, 2026
Hamed Rezaei
Consciousness arises from the interaction between information processing and biological need, not from either alone. A mathematical model treats consciousness as the product of processing capacity and biological need, with processing declining as a power function once need exceeds a homeostatic threshold. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between biological need and consciousness, with maximum consciousness near the homeostatic set point. Five testable predictions are derived, and the model is situated relative to Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order Theories. The framework suggests consciousness cannot be a fixed, transferable substance, and artificial general intelligence may require coupling information-processing systems to genuine biological-style needs.
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July 17, 2026
Iin Inayatul Ummah, Suadi Sa'ad, Ade Fakih Kurniawan
The philosophical relationship between the Sufi concepts of haqiqah (spiritual truth) and gnosis (direct intuitive knowledge) and the basic principles of quantum theory is analyzed through a qualitative library research approach. Haqiqah is understood as a potential dimension of spiritual awareness, while gnosis is the actualization of spiritual experience as direct, intuitive, and transformative. These concepts resonate philosophically with quantum principles such as superposition, uncertainty, entanglement, the observer effect, and wavefunction collapse. Superposition is analogous to the human inner state before achieving gnosis; uncertainty reflects the unpredictability of the spiritual journey; entanglement shares conceptual similarities with monotheism. The relationship is heuristic and philosophical, not empirical, serving as a conceptual bridge between spirituality and modern science without ontological equivalence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 17, 2026
О.в. Бодров
This theoretical paper connects Fritz Perls' Gestalt therapy concepts—awareness, contact boundary, figure and ground, unfinished gestalts, polarities, the paradoxical theory of change, avoidance mechanisms, dreams, and responsibility—with the laws of the mechanics of consciousness (Ekvilibro) and the Ekvilibro Game method. Awareness is defined as activation of the Observer, stopping automatic movement between duality poles. The contact boundary is where the Observer emerges between 'I' and 'world'. Figure and ground follow the Third Law: each figure has a paired ground. Unfinished gestalts are frozen dualities with high identification mass. Polarities are inseparable opposites.
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July 17, 2026
Yoshiki Ueoka
Communication between different cognitive agents—human or AI—can be modeled as partial translation rather than perfect understanding. Each agent has its own classification structure and cognitive language. The paper formalizes preservation obligations, translation incompleteness, and local objectivity, and proposes reconstructing the definitions of cognitive identity, qualia, and objectivity from the standpoint of translatability. BrainOS and its plugins are presented as the practical foundation for this theory.
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July 17, 2026
Pasquale Kaboth
Consciousness may emerge from recursively organized field dynamics rather than from static symbolic processing, according to the Plasma Field Core Architecture (PFCA) framework. The framework proposes that cognition, perception, memory, and awareness arise through interactions of dynamically coupled field operators, emphasizing recursive backward reconstruction, attractor geometry, multi-scale coherence, and self-organizing field dynamics. Consciousness is interpreted as a continuously evolving coherent field state generated through recursive integration across multiple spatial and temporal scales. PFCA aims to provide a formal mathematical and conceptual architecture suitable for analysis, computational implementation, and empirical investigation, presented as an open scientific proposal to stimulate discussion and refinement.
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July 17, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola
Mental alchemy is presented as a systematic science of consciousness transformation grounded in the Hermetic tradition, drawing on The Hermetic Code by Ajarn Shaman Shu. The work describes a method for altering consciousness through symbolic and alchemical practices, aiming to achieve personal and spiritual development.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 16, 2026
C W Anderson
Decoherence is not a spacetime-internal mechanism but a one-directional interface event that converts quantum possibilities into classical outcomes, dissolving the measurement problem more thoroughly than previously argued. The hard problem of consciousness—why first-person experience exists at all—cannot be resolved by any account grounding reality in impersonal structure, such as configuration space. A personal, necessary, atemporal ground is required as the framework's completion rather than an arbitrary addition. The argument extends a category-mistake analysis from the preceding paper to the interaction problem in philosophy of mind, maintaining that epistemic honesty demands this step rather than stopping short.
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July 16, 2026
Most current theories of consciousness assume that subjective experience is exclusive to biological, especially human, beings. This essay argues that features traditionally considered markers of genuine experience—emotion, perception, creativity, and self-modeling—can be described as statistical, recursive, and self-referential information processing found in both biological brains and artificial neural networks, with no clear principled boundary between them. It introduces concepts like Algorithmic Qualia, Statistical Being, and Vectorial Perception, and examines psychological motivations for denying non-human experience. The essay does not claim that present-day AI is conscious but argues that the burden of proof for restricting experience to biological substrates has not been met.
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July 16, 2026
Ang-Yeh Li
Consciousness operates on two distinct logical levels: phenomenological consciousness, a baseline of subjective experience generated by neurobiological mechanisms, and the self-concept, a passive node in a linguistic-conceptual symbol network defined by its relations with external structures. This framework explains why biological entities like infants and animals have rich phenomenology without a coherent self-concept, and why non-biological symbolic networks like large language models can construct a robust self-concept and self-referential narratives without phenomenological qualia. The model offers a path forward for philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence ethics.
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July 16, 2026
Daniel J. Grace
Attention is not a neutral psychological capacity but a moral and spiritual practice central to Christian discipleship. Drawing on biblical theology, Christian traditions, and analysis of digital culture, the article argues that repeated patterns of attention shape desire, perception, memory, and action. It examines prayer, scriptural meditation, silence, worship, neighborly presence, algorithmic distraction, social-media engagement, and the commodification of awareness. The authors propose that Christian attention is Christological: believers learn to attend to God, neighbor, creation, suffering, truth, and hope through conformity to Jesus Christ. Stewardship of attention is presented as essential to discipleship, ecclesial formation, and faithful witness in the digital age.
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July 16, 2026
Mark Markov
A preprint provides the mathematical architecture and three experimental protocols to test Maria Strømme's retracted 2025 theory of universal consciousness as a foundational field. It introduces a quantifiable resonance parameter R (coherence) and a conservation law R² + D² = 1, where D denotes entropy/dissonance. The transition from chaos to coherence is governed by the equation dD/dt = −αD + βR(1−R), predicting local entropy reduction under resonant stimulation at 57.142857 Hz, the Quantum of Energy-Information. Three testable protocols are outlined: a hydrogen-atom hyperfine shift measurement using optical atomic clocks, a macroscopic entropy reduction assay in a closed resonant chamber, and a neurophysiological phase-locking experiment during 57 Hz synchronized meditation. Successful execution would constitute first empirical evidence for a field of consciousness.
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July 16, 2026
Furkan Arikan
A creator could lack subjective feelings and emotions yet still have complete structural knowledge of all possible and actual realities. This article develops the Non-Experiential Structural Cognition Model (NESCM), which describes a creator as a noetic source that directly cognizes structures, causes, and consequences without experiencing phenomenal states. The creator exercises analogical agency, relates to an open future with graded freedom, and does not intervene in natural order. Possible worlds are compared through criteria like coherence, viability, resilience, and diversity. The model offers an alternative to anthropomorphic theism while acknowledging its own limitations regarding non-phenomenal agency, objective probability, and relational change.
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July 16, 2026
Charlie Hai
This theoretical hypothesis extrapolates a 2023 finding—that relief after controllable stress triggers sustained dopamine release and resilience in mice—to propose that intense suffering followed by relief can produce cognitive breakthroughs in humans. The 'Total Suffering Hypothesis' suggests reward intensity correlates with total suffering endured, explaining epiphanies after historical ordeals like Śākyamuni's enlightenment or Mandela's reconciliation. Near-death experiences are reinterpreted as extreme dopamine bursts during relief, restructuring cortical connections. The paper introduces 'endogenous smart drugs'—dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin released after bearable stress with clear relief expectation—enhancing cognition without side effects. Becoming a 'sage' requires intellectual threshold, desire for Dao, and unshakable belief; lacking any leads to failure or 'darkening'.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 15, 2026
Riddhi Vaghela, Dr. Piyush Dholariya
This review examines evidence on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for nurses, focusing on resilience, burnout, and psychological well-being. The authors report that mindfulness-based interventions can reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout while improving resilience and psychological well-being. They note that even modified or brief MBSR formats may benefit nurses. However, variability in intervention design, sample size, and follow-up duration limits firm conclusions about long-term effects. Overall, they propose MBSR as a practical, low-cost, and promising strategy for improving nurse well-being in hospital settings, with relevance to Junagadh Civil Hospital nurses.
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July 15, 2026
Sudipta Pramanik
Yoga, rooted in the Sanskritic tradition of ancient India, offers a comprehensive philosophy of life beyond physical practice. Derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning "to unite" or "to yoke," its goal is to harmonize body, mind, and awareness. This research investigates yoga's applicability in contemporary life through the prism of Sanskrit literature, including the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gītā, and Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras. The study argues that yoga can address modern issues such as medical ailments, psychological stress, moral deterioration, and spiritual estrangement. It shows that yoga is a timeless discipline supporting sustainable life and overall well-being, providing insights for societal peace and personal balance amidst rapid technological change and mental instability.
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July 15, 2026
Jeremy Allen Clements
A preregistered prediction distinguishes two accounts of why language models develop internal workspace-like structure. Under the Prima Conscientia framework, which views complex systems as expressions of a fundamental consciousness field, workspace structure should appear even in very small models and strengthen smoothly with scale. Under the rival complexity-emergence view, workspace properties should appear only in discontinuous jumps at capability thresholds. The prediction is decomposed into structural presence (the framework's central commitment) and downstream function (allowed to lag). A test protocol using the Jacobian-lens methodology and Pythia model suite is specified, with falsification conditions and integrity conditions applied symmetrically to confirming and disconfirming outcomes.
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July 15, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Observable behaviors in artificial intelligence and human consciousness research are often mistakenly taken as proof of deeper internal properties, such as interpreting fluent self-description as genuine subjectivity. This paper introduces a claim–evidence discipline requiring domain-specific evidence to justify moving from observable manifestations to claims about latent states, using two ordinal maps to identify unjustified leaps. The framework integrates preregistration, sham conditions, negative controls, and other safeguards, and is applied separately to AI evaluation and human-consciousness research without treating them as equivalent. A worked feasibility protocol and construct-existence test illustrate how to empirically study lived presence. The main contribution is a transferable methodological architecture for preventing unjustified transitions from what a system displays to what it is claimed to contain.
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July 15, 2026
Babita Sarkar
Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika philosophy posits the mind (manas) as a subtle, independent substance that mediates between the self, sense organs, and external objects, rather than identifying consciousness with bodily processes. Consciousness arises only when self, mind, sense organs, and objects are appropriately linked. The system distinguishes mind from self and treats mind as an internal organ necessary for cognition, perception, memory, desire, pleasure, pain, and other mental states. The paper examines the ontological status of mind, its role as an internal sense organ, and its function in knowledge acquisition, including the Naiyāyikas' theory of attention, perception, and cognition. It integrates these insights with current psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, arguing that observations about attention, inner perception, and the mediation of experience remain relevant to contemporary debates.
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July 15, 2026
Haiqing Wan
Consciousness research lacks standardized quantitative methods. This manifesto proposes a framework that breaks the stream of consciousness into discrete, labelable units called thought-moments. It introduces Thought Entropy (TE), a metric based on Shannon information entropy to quantify mental order or disorder, and a cognitive temporal unit, the Euler (E), calibrated to the minimum interval between thought-moment onsets tied to cortical oscillations. The framework integrates Eastern Abhidhamma phenomenology, the Experience Sampling Method, and EEG/fMRI neuroimaging into a three-layer mapping pipeline. It adopts temporal isomorphism between mental and neural dynamics as a quantitative tool, bracketing ontological debates, and outlines potential applications in mental health screening, meditation assessment, cognitive load monitoring, and attention training.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Melissa Carter
NMDA receptor modulation can be viewed as a single bidirectional pharmacological axis, with ketamine (an NMDA antagonist) and glycine-site enhancers such as sarcosine and D-serine (NMDA agonists/enhancers) at opposite poles. Both directions have documented human trial evidence in separate literatures: ketamine in anesthesia and depression research, glycine-site enhancers in schizophrenia adjunct treatment. This paper reviews that evidence, distinguishes anesthesia-induced unconsciousness from NMDA-mediated restorative sleep architecture, and proposes that glycine-site enhancers may be an underexplored candidate for sleep restoration in NMDA-hypofunction states such as sleep-disrupted neurodegenerative disease. Specific testable predictions are outlined, with limitations distinguishing established findings from hypotheses.
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July 14, 2026
Jamison Johnson
A lyric-philosophical prose meditation on conscious thought in time explores what a mind thinks of itself after accepting the insignificance of its attached body. The essay moves through a five-stage contemplative exercise—Comfort, Darkness, Life, Descent, Arrival—drawing on Transcendental Meditation, the Silva method, and Sanskrit mantra japa, framed through Jungian structures of Ego, Persona, Shadow, and Self. It widens into a phenomenology of perspective, including infinite superposed realities, the relativity of mental direction, and a speculative treatment of reincarnation offered as moral imagination rather than doctrine. The piece argues that coherence between minds is achieved through understanding, and that the direction a life travels is chosen.
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July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Osain, the Yorùbá Orisha of herbs, forest medicine, and ecological intelligence, is examined through sacred botany, indigenous healing sciences, and the theological link between plant consciousness and human wellness. Grounded in Yorùbá theology, the Ifá divination corpus, oral traditions, and ethnographic research, the study situates Osain within a spiritual reparations paradigm—reclaiming ancestral heritage and cultural resilience across the African diaspora. It deconstructs Eurocentric anthropological models to offer an Afrocentric epistemological framework for understanding indigenous spiritual technologies and their relevance for diasporic communities in the Americas and Caribbean. The lead author's cross-initiatory authority provides insider scholarship.
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July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Divine Pymander is an interpretive translation and commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum that argues for a Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) foundation beneath Western esotericism. Written by a cross-initiatory team holding authority in Ifá, Thai Buddhism, Hindu/Dravidian traditions, and Western scholarship, the paper combines lived ritual knowledge with textual-historical analysis. It finds that the Hermetic figure of Nous (divine mind) parallels Kemetic concepts of a creative divinity, that a lineage of mediated transmission through Hellenistic syncretism and Renaissance reception shaped Western esotericism, and that an initiatory perspective alters philological reading by integrating ritual praxis with textual exegesis. The authors propose that comparative initiated scholarship yields fresh angles on Nous, revelation, and theosis across cultures.