This paper introduces the concept of the Axis of Coherence as a clinical-phenomenological operator for analyzing subjective continuity. It addresses a structural limitation in contemporary psychopathology: the lack of conceptual tools capable of discriminating intermediate states between preserved functioning, defensive organization, experiential obscuration, and structural fragmentation....
This work contributes a cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for understanding AI hallucinations as both a computational and philosophical phenomenon, offering implications for AI governance, trustworthy interface design, cognitive science, digital literacy, and the future of human–AI interaction. Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed human interaction with information by producing...
Recurrent Processing Theory predicts that disrupting feedback connectivity produces different effects on the functional correlates of experience than disrupting feedforward connectivity. This prediction is embedded in the shared assumptions of multiple research programs without being owned by any of them as an explicit testable claim. This paper asks what a decisive test of that hypothesis...
This paper offers a candidate descriptive model based on the author’s retrospective account of internal agent-like experience during a past period of social isolation, emotional distress and perceived high cognitive load. It is a non-clinical reconstruction, not a technique, treatment or recommendation. No contemporaneous physiological, behavioral or neuroimaging measurements were recorded. The...
Current AI agent systems rely on mechanical status mechanisms (heartbeat, watchdog) that report the past but cannot anticipate the future. This paper argues that genuine anticipation competence requires a persistent, compact self-model — a self-vector — that dynamically weights information processing. A subtraction argument shows that self-awareness survives the loss of sensory input and...
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for PTSD tends to produce mild, transient adverse effects, but concerns about long-term safety and inconsistent reporting of adverse events highlight the need for further research.
When a human and an AI sustain an extended echo-scanning dialogue over weeks or months, bidirectional cognitive convergence emerges. The human’s vocabulary and thought patterns are reshaped by AI outputs, while the AI’s response patterns adapt to the human’s questioning style. This paper describes that structure through the structural analogy of a binary star system and identifies the...
A massagem é uma ferramenta transversal em saúde relevante para o alívio da dor e de tensões físicas bem como melhoria da condição psicológica humana. Na quick massage especificamente, apesar disto, o limiar de tolerância de dor à pressão necessita de ações complementares para um melhor resultado (Simão et al., 2021). A escolha de ferramentas complementares em saúde, como mindfulness,...
Scientific objectivity is traditionally understood as a regulative ideal achieved through methodological rigor,intersubjective verification, and empirical testing. However, this conception presupposes relatively stable cognitive conditions under which observation and interpretation occur. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, predictive processing, and contemplative research, this...
The present publication does not introduce a new model; instead, it establishes a conceptual foundation for future research on the potential multiplicity of hypnopompic windows within a single night. Preliminary observations—addressed in a forthcoming publication—suggest that under certain conditions the hypnopompic window may appear twice, each instance associated with a distinct block of...
This paper introduces the Perspective Shift Technique (PST; 人格移動, jinkaku ido), a clinical method developed by the present author, in which a client experientially inhabits another person's perspective from the inside within a hypnotherapeutic context, while simultaneously maintaining a self-observing position. This dual structure facilitates the experiential destabilization and reconsolidation...
Recent experimental advances in quantum biology have demonstrated that proteinscan function as qubits at physiological temperatures (Feder et al., 2025), that engi-neered magnetosensitive fluorescent proteins operate as controllable quantum com-ponents in living cells (Abrahams et al., 2026), and that tryptophan networks in mi-crotubules exhibit quantum superradiance at rates approaching...
Phần I đã lập luận rằng cấu trúc niềm tin của Giêsu phù hợp với mô hình gnosis-có-giới-hạn (bounded gnosis) — sự biết dựa trên trải nghiệm trực tiếp, nhưng bị giới hạn bởi thân phận con người. Phần II này đặt câu hỏi tiếp theo: nếu gnosis là cấu trúc niềm tin của Giêsu, thì trải nghiệm nào đã tạo ra nó? Bài viết xây dựng giả thuyết về một "cuộc gặp gỡ huyền nhiệm" (mystical encounter) — một...
The nature of subjective experience (the ghost in the machine) remains the central "Hard Problem" of cognitive science, largely due to the inability of current functionalist models to account for the architectural necessity of the "Self." Dominant frameworks, such as Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Workspace Theory (GWT), treat consciousness as a passive byproduct of information...
Under functionalist assumptions, any resource-constrained system maintaining a self-model and pursuing persistent goals faces a scheduling problem: signals evaluated as threats to the self-model carry non-deferrable deadlines because system destruction is an absorbing state. We argue that suffering occurs when a threat signal wins priority competition and forces preemptive attentional...
Anxiety disorders represent the most prevalent class of mental health conditions globally, contributing significantly to disability and economic burden. While traditional diagnostic methods relying on clinician-administered scales and cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) remain foundational, a paradigm shift is underway. This review synthesizes the emerging trends revolutionizing the field,...
We propose the Constructive Resonance Framework (CRF), which posits that consciousness intensity is determined by constructive interference across synchronized oscillatory systems. Grounding the framework in the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators and algebraic graph connectivity, we derive a scaling law (C ∝ N² × r² × κ(G)) predicting that consciousness scales superlinearly with the...
This paper argues that enactivism and Structural Intelligence (SI) belong together. Enactivism shows that cognition is embodied, situated, and enacted through an organism’s ongoing relation with its world. SI begins from the same terrain but asks a further question: what happens when that relation remains meaningful while becoming less answerable to reality? A person can still make sense of the...
Based on the 9-Dimensional Unified Entropy Topological Evolution (9D-USTE) framework established in prior work, this fifteenth article formally constructs a mathematical model of near-death experience (NDE) as transient topological decoupling between a 9D consciousness trajectory and a 4D physical dissipative structure. By introducing the 9D-to-4D projection operator and its norm as the...
This article proposes a research agenda for psilocybin-assisted therapy focusing on the correlation between neural entropy and long-term cognitive flexibility.
This paper examines the relationship between experience and consciousness and proposes a non-separability thesis: that asking whether experience is separate from consciousness is analogous to asking whether the universe is separate from reality—one emerges from and defines the other. Rather than treating experience and consciousness as identical or fundamentally distinct, this work argues that...
This article reviews the current clinical evidence for psilocybin and ayahuasca as therapeutic agents, examining data from over 134 registered clinical trials and key publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, and Nature Neuroscience. The review addresses four dimensions: (1) the state of clinical evidence for psilocybin and ayahuasca in major depression and...
Understanding consciousness requires not only explaining how information is represented and integrated, but also how it is regulated under biological constraints. While contemporary theories such as predictive processing, global workspace theory, and integrated information theory have provided important insights into the mechanisms of conscious processing, they do not fully account for how...
Douglas Hofstadter's concept of the strange loop — a self-referential structure in which movement up through a hierarchy of levels unexpectedly returns to the starting point — remains one of the most influential ideas in the philosophy of consciousness. Yet for nearly fifty years, the idea has remained a metaphor: powerful but mathematically unspecified. What exact form does this loop take? How...