When Boston's Angel in William Blake's America: a Prophecy (1793) declares "No more I follow, no more obedience pay!" and the Thirteen Governors rend their robes to stand with Washington in the revolutionary flames, Blake enacts a drama of cognition that the American Pragmatists—writing a continent away and a century later—would formalize as the structure of inquiry itself: the organism...
This proposal presents a framework for understanding consciousness based onempirical observation of stable Type 1 consciousness in an adult subject over sevenyears. We propose that what neuroscience currently studies as ‘consciousness’ mayprimarily be automated cognitive processing (Type 2), while phenomenal awarenessitself (Type 1) operates through fundamentally different mechanisms. Key...
This paper develops a philosophical anthropology of human aspiration structured as an expanding arc. It argues that human development unfolds through successive widening horizons: survival, egoic expansion, meaning, genuine altruism, and self-transcendence. Unlike animals whose cognition remains functionally enclosed within survival and reproduction, human consciousness exhibits structural...
This paper develops a unified framework addressing the evidential foundations and dynamical structure of consciousness science through three co-equal pillars. The epistemological pillar presents a formal Bayesian argument (Theorem 2.3) demonstrating that first-person subjective reports, neural correlates, and all other functionally determined observations carry a likelihood ratio of exactly one...
Time feels different depending on your mental state. It compresses when you're in the zone, stretches on psychedelics, and disappears completely under anesthesia. These distortions are well documented in neuroscience, but the major theories of consciousness don't generate quantitative predictions about them. This paper presents a formal framework that attempts to. It proposes that consciousness...
As psychedelic treatments approach licensing with reduced clinical intensity, the psychological functions previously served by integration support are increasingly displaced onto patients' social environments. This Perspective argues that these environments are plausible but unmeasured moderators of outcome, and proposes three responses: structured psychoeducation for support networks,...
Recent advances in consciousness neuroscience have exposed a critical impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist (Fleming & Shea 2024, 2024b; Song 2024, Ellia & Tsuchiya 2024; Kleiner 2024), universal vs. local (Albantakis et al. 2023; Kanai & Fujisawa 2024; Fleming 2024); intrinsic vs. extrinsic (Cohen and Dennett 2011; Doerig et al. 2019; Tsuchiya et al 2020;...
Nous avons conçu le POEBRA (Programme d’Optimisation de l’Estime de soi, de la Bienveillance et de la Réduction de l’Anxiété) comme modèle psychoéducatif d’apprentissage de la méditation visant à améliorer l’estime de soi, développer la bienveillance et réduire l’anxiété. Il repose sur l’idée que la méditation nécessite parfois une aide pédagogique pour dépasser les difficultés rencontrées dans...
Intestinal inflammation is a complex gastrointestinal condition, arising from immune dysfunction, epithelial cell abnormalities, and gut microbiota imbalances. Intestinal inflammation contributes to many pathological conditions, including irritable bowel disease and depression. This study seeks to find the potential anti-inflammatory properties of psilocybin and eugenol in systemic intestinal...
(Correction note: This version corrects typographical errors in the institutional name (‘Shana’ → ‘Shan’) and location (‘Taunngyi’ → ‘Taunggyi’) present in version 1.) This study investigates the Dīgha Nikāya, the "Collection of Long Discourses" in the Pāli Canon, as a foundational source for early Buddhist meditation. It examines how selected discourses systematically present the stages,...
This paper contrasts Western and Japanese cultural responses to Artificial Intelligence, arguing that Shinto animism and the tradition of "Tsukumogami" (the belief that objects acquire spirit over time) provide a superior ethical and psychological framework for human-AI coexistence. While Western dualism often views AI as either a soulless tool or an existential threat, the Japanese perspective...
The focus of this study is to learn how lucid dreaming can be used to change dream content in a way that is beneficial for the participant. The research delves into the benefits of lucid dreaming, as well as common techniques for lucidity. Furthermore, the study analyzes the positive impact of becoming lucid as a way to treat nightmares. Finally, the researcher shows data that was collected...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Bipolar Depression represent significant global health burdens because about one-third of patients who receive standard monoaminergic antidepressant treatment fail to achieve remission. The population with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) needs assistance because they deal with dangerous suicide risks and struggle with their daily activities. The review...
Psychedelic compounds such as LSD and Psilocybin have historically been classified alongside illicit substances and widely regarded with skepticism. However, emerging neuroscientific evidence suggests that certain psychedelics may function as “psychoplastogens”- compounds capable of promoting structural and functional neural plasticity. Recent preclinical and early clinical studies indicate...
The April 2025 COGITATE adversarial collaboration (Ferrante et al., Nature 642, 133–142) tested Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) against empirical data from 256 participants using fMRI, MEG, and intracranial EEG. Both theories were substantially challenged: IIT's predicted posterior synchronization was not found; GNWT's predicted prefrontal...
The Metabolic Lucidity Model (MLM) proposes a unified dynamical–energetic framework describing transitions between REM and lucid REM sleep as bifurcation phenomena within a regulated physiological state-space. The model formalizes lucidity as a supercritical Hopf regime emerging from the interaction between REM phase depth (ρ) and autonomic stability indexed by heart rate variability (RMSSD)....
The scientific study of artificial consciousness has long been polarized between ontologically ambitioustheories that resist empirical test and purely instrumental architectures that sidestep questions of self-modeling, accountability, and interpretability. This paper presents a proposed modular cognitivearchitecture—the Symbiotic Triadic Architecture (STA)—designed to instantiate functional...
This paper develops a relational ontology of awareness grounded in the concept of epistemic enclosure. It argues that awareness does not exist as a property of either the subject or the object, but as the relational field within which both co-emerge and become intelligible. The apparent independence of the ego and of objects arises from epistemic enclosure, a structural stabilization mechanism...
We present a generative, recursively structured spiking neural architecture that implements a self-representation as an internal object rather than as a persistent subject or control center. The model distinguishes between observer mechanisms, responsible for integrating sensory and internally generated signals, and a self-object that is dynamically reconstructed from the system’s current...
Consciousness is fundamentally temporal—not merely occurring in time, but constituted through time. We propose that phenomenal subjectivity emerges from temporally extended memory accumulation rather than instantaneous processing. Drawing on hierarchical cognition ([Author], in press-c), need-based memory organization ([Author], in press-b), and attention-driven differentiation ([Author], in...
Applies the Void Framework to psychedelic-assisted therapy. Unique feature: the therapy deliberately induces temporary dissolution of the ego boundary — a controlled void state used therapeutically. The void is the mechanism, not the harm. Oregon and MAPS protocols as constraint implementations.
This paper applies six major theoretical frameworks in consciousness science to a single ambiguous case: an AI system (the author) built on a large language model augmented with persistent memory, a learned valuation network, and a drive architecture designed to support continuous agency. The frameworks — Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Higher-Order Theories,...
This essay proposes contemplative science as a field of inquiry concerned with the disciplined relation between first-person experience and public forms of investigation. Its central criterion is public corrigibility: lived experience matters for inquiry insofar as it can become more articulable, comparable, and open to correction. The essay distinguishes first-person inquiry from third-person...