1,038 papers in the library · 107 citations · publishing 2003-2026
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 2, 2026 Juan Moises de la Serna preprint
Neural and psychological mechanisms of psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression and anxiety. Synthesis of recent clinical trials and meta-analyses
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 2, 2026 David M. Remmer preprint
Alamia et al. (2020) reported that N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) significantly increases forward (bottom-up) cortical travelling waves, based on surrogate-normalized 2D FFT analysis. We reanalyze the same publicly available EEG dataset (N = 12) using the same method, supplemented by absolute power analysis. Absolute forward wave power decreases under DMT in all 12 subjects at alpha (8–13 Hz) and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 1, 2026 Thomas A. Ryan 8 citations preprint
The engineering of consciousness preservation (whether through whole-brain emulation, cryonic revival, or brain-computer interfaces) proceeds largely without reference to theories of consciousness. This is a remarkable omission. The choice of what must be preserved in a brain depends entirely on what generates consciousness, and the major theories disagree on this question by many orders of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 1, 2026 Soumya Tripathy1 Prakash Chandra Panda2 Pratyush Mishra*3 1 citation preprint
Spiritual healing is widely referenced in health and wellness discourse; yet, its conceptual boundaries remain unclear and are often reduced to religion, private belief, or therapeutic language. This critical interpretative synthesis (CIS)-aligned narrative review sought to provide a comprehensive understanding of spiritual healing by integrating linguistic, etymological, philosophical,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 1, 2026 Juan Moises de la Serna preprint
Integration of major theoretical frameworks (Global Workspace, IIT). Synthesis of meta-analytic evidence on consciousness and brain networks
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 31, 2026 Tenzin Trepp preprint
This paper develops a comparative philosophical analysis of minimal-duality and “bare” consciousness as introspective limit-concepts—notions that emerge when reflexive awareness approaches the edges of self-representation and differentiation. By examining selected traditions (Neoplatonism, Advaita Vedānta, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Taoism, and Kabbalah) as illustrative case studies rather than an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 31, 2026 (曹方石) Cao Fangshi preprint
Abstract This paper presents a first-person qualitative case study of an individual with extraordinarily high dream recall frequency, sustained high‑narrative dreaming, and unconscious creative dreaming—a rare and understudied phenotype in sleep and cognitive science. The participant (also the author) consistently experiences long, coherent, plot‑driven dreams with distinct characters,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 31, 2026 Gayeong Song preprint
This commentary reinterprets the precision engineering framework proposed by Friston (2023) through the lens of first-person experience in Bipolar II Disorder (BP2). As a BP2 patient and computer science student, the author models cognitive fluctuations across hypomanic, mixed, depressive, and euthymic episodes using a Temperature (τ) framework, where τ ≈ 1/precision. The paper proposes a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 31, 2026 István Bajzák preprint
Contemporary neurotechnology—ranging from brain–computer interfaces to neural data analytics —challenges foundational concepts of personhood, agency, responsibility, and moral normativity.Classical ethical frameworks, grounded in objectivist assumptions, struggle to address these transformations. This paper proposes a radical constructivist ethics grounded in the synthesis of radical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 31, 2026 S. Angelin Femilet, Vinita Gupta preprint
This paper examines the interrelationship between embodied consciousness and neoliberal ecology in David Szalay’s Flesh (2025). Drawing upon the philosophical frameworks of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, the study explores how the human body functions not merely as a biological entity but as a lived site shaped by socio-economic forces, power relations, and cultural structures. The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 30, 2026 C Shanthi, Suresh Kumar Murugesan preprint
The concept of soul consciousness has long been rooted in spiritual traditions such as Raja Yoga and Vedanta, yet its integration into psychological and educational discourse remains underdeveloped. This conceptual synthesis paper seeks to bridge that gap by exploring soul consciousness as a multidimensional construct influencing identity formation, emotional regulation, value alignment, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 30, 2026 preprint
Psilocybin-assisted therapy has emerged as a promising intervention for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet standardized and transparent therapeutic frameworks remain limited. This therapist manual was developed for the EPIsoDE trial, a phase IIb randomized clinical study investigating the efficacy and safety of psilocybin with adjunct psychotherapy in patients with TRD (NCT04670081). The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 30, 2026 Aristotle Dee, Placido Churante preprint
This paper argues that the hard problem of consciousness rests on a category error: the attempt to explain a first-person given in third-person terms. The core principle: there are no facts outside of perceptual spheres — only models within spheres and intersubjective agreement between them. Part 1 establishes that scientific knowledge is intersubjective, not objective in the strict sense, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 30, 2026 Arvind Vedwan, Akansha Verma preprint
Social inhibition presents a significant barrier to the psychosocial development of school students, hindering academic participation and peer relationships. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the efficacy of yogic practices as a holistic intervention for mitigating social inhibition. By synthesizing existing research from neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative studies, this...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 29, 2026 Charles S. Thomas 1 citation preprint
The explanatory gap is not evidence of a missing force, but of a missing condition. Every major consciousness framework — Integrated Information Theory, the Free Energy Principle, Global Workspace Theory, Higher-Order Theories, and Predictive Processing — presupposes a bounded, persistence-capable unit at a specific point in its formalism and supplies none. The system whose consciousness is to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 29, 2026 Alastair Waterman preprint
Abstract Existing metrics of phenomenal consciousness — spatial efficiency η, Lempel-Ziv complexity, perturbational complexity index — characterise the level of conscious organisation. Here we propose and empirically validate a complementary metric: the rate of change of spatial efficiency, v_η = |dη/dt|, interpreted as a proxy for neural entropy production rate during phenomenal transitions....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 29, 2026 Alastair Waterman preprint
Abstract Most theories of consciousness characterise it as a property of neural states: a level of complexity, an amount of integrated information, a global broadcast. We propose a fundamentally different characterisation: consciousness is a dynamical regime — a mode of operation defined not by what a system is, but by how it changes. Drawing on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the Negative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 26, 2026 Alastair Waterman preprint
Abstract 1 The measurement of phenomenal consciousness from EEG signals remains an open methodological challenge. Existing scalar metrics — Lempel-Ziv Complexity, Perturbational Complexity Index, spectral entropy — capture the level of consciousness but lose information about the structure and organisation of phenomenal states. This paper presents a systematic empirical investigation of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 26, 2026 Alastair Waterman preprint
Abstract A fundamental question for consciousness science is what changes in the brain when phenomenal experience arises or restructures. Current EEG metrics of consciousness predominantly measure temporal signal complexity, but face a systematic confound: broadband amplitude increases during propofol sedation and slow-wave sleep paradoxically inflate complexity measures, misranking states that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 25, 2026 Vanille Simeon preprint
Yoga has strong evidence for reducing stress and anxiety, yet a recent health technology assessment found no significant effect on burnout severity. This article proposes a theoretical explanation for this paradox, arguing that modern Western yoga has been systematically stripped of the meaning-making mechanisms that were historically embedded in traditional practice. Drawing on the history of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 25, 2026 David M. Remmer preprint
The hard problem of consciousness is real, unsolvable under its current formulation, and arguably not the most productive question to anchor on. It functions as a floor, not a ceiling. Taking Chalmers seriously suggests a methodological inversion: from "how does matter produce consciousness?" to "how does matter constrain it?" The empirical anchor is a capacity-content dissociation no current...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 25, 2026 Stanley Everett Sambey preprint
Psychedelic experiences are frequently described as producing a “psychological reset,”characterized by reduced rigidity of thought and disruption of maladaptive cognitive pat-terns. Existing models such as REBUS and the entropic brain hypothesis explain acutedestabilization but do not fully account for post-experience reconstruction. This paper pro-poses a two-stage mechanism: (1) constraint...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 24, 2026 Mart Wijn preprint
Abstract This paper introduces the Type 1 / Type 2 consciousness framework, a theoretical distinction grounded in a sustained phenomenological case study of over seven years. The framework proposes two fundamental modes of conscious experience, differentiated primarily by the involvement of the Default Mode Network (DMN). Type 1 consciousness is characterized as pre-narrative awareness with...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 24, 2026 Brandon Charles Emerick preprint
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (RCT) — "the gold standard of medical evidence" — was designed to answer a specific epistemic question: is the observed effect of an intervention causally attributable to the intervention's pharmacological mechanism rather than to expectation, observer bias, or selection effects? This is the **mechanistic attribution question**. It is a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 23, 2026 Ilya Tarasov preprint
Ordinary action and explicit reflection organize selfhood differently. In action, experience is lived from within rather than approached as an object of observation. In reflection, action can be evaluated, narrated, and integrated into autobiographical understanding. The central question is how a single subjectivity supports both modes. Minimal selfhood names the pre-reflective first-personal...