Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 30, 2026
Om Prakash Sharma, Surendra Sisodia
preprint
The ancient Indian system of yoga has gained significant attention in educational and psychological research for its potential role in improving students’ mental health and cognitive performance. The present study examined the effect of meditation and pranayama interventions on learning achievement and cognitive abilities among secondary school students. Adopting an experimental...
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 29, 2026
Marcel Pierrelouis, Pablo Iturralde
1 citation
preprint
Psychedelic therapy is usually explained by what happens at the peak of the session. We argue the explanation sits on the wrong side of the experience. Drawing on first-person accounts of ego dissolution and on the reconsolidation literature, we set out a four-phase account in which the therapeutic event is not the dissolution and not the mystical peak, but the reassembly of self-referential...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 29, 2026
Daniel Kogel
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This paper presents a philosophical and interdisciplinary investigation into the role of difference, discontinuity, and sensory adaptation in the formation of perception. Its central thesis is that perception fundamentally depends on distinctions across space or time, rather than the passive reception of continuous, unchanging stimuli. Drawing upon established findings in visual perception,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 29, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Breath awareness is among the oldest contemplative instructions and a frequent object of mindfulness research, yet practitioners are usually offered either an open-ended invitation to “notice the breath” or a technique that alters breathing. This article proposes the 108 Breath Awareness Method, a specified daily practice between these options: attending to 108 natural respiratory cycles in the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 29, 2026
Daniel Kogel
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This paper introduces the Self-Time Loop, a philosophical model of consciousness and temporal experience proposing that subjective awareness emerges through a continuous process of anticipation, transformation, retention, and feedback. The central hypothesis is that consciousness is oriented toward an incoming future, converting arriving sensory information into lived experience. Once...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 28, 2026
Guoping Hua
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The most vexing gap in current research on AI consciousness is not merely that the question of whether machines possess subjective experience remains unsettled; more fundamentally, the "self" is often treated as an already-existing premise. Theories can explain how information is broadcast, integrated, or represented at a higher order, yet they rarely ask how a system gets from "having a body"...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 28, 2026
Prabhat Tiwari, Sujeet Pratap Singh, Pramod Mishra et al.
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Consciousness is commonly discussed as the capacity to experience sensations, thoughts, emotions, intentions, and awareness of self and surroundings. The human body provides the biological structures through which many of these experiences are expressed and regulated, while the nervous system coordinates information across the organism. Biofabrication, including tissue engineering, organoid...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 28, 2026
Guoping Hua
preprint
Traditional discussions of artificial intelligence consciousness have long been trapped in the binary opposition of "conscious or not": one camp equates the linguistic simulation of large models directly with full human consciousness, while the reductionist camp reduces all AI behavior to mere statistical fitting, denying any genuine thinking or reflection. Drawing on a hierarchical framework...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 28, 2026
Jizhang Huang
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Abstract Artificial intelligence now exhibits substantial task competence in mathematical reasoning, formal verification, complex games, language generation, and tool use. High intellectual performance, however, does not establish that a system has endogenous survival needs, or that its task-evaluation criteria reflect the continuing interests at stake in the real world. At the intersection of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 28, 2026
Guoping Hua
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Whether artificial intelligence possesses consciousness cannot be reduced to a simple yes-or-no question. It requires clarification of the internal layers of consciousness-related phenomena. This paper proposes a six-level framework: the physical substrate of consciousness, structural functional response, bodily sensation, emotional reenactment, rational cognitive response, and social-emotional...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 27, 2026
Ana (李安娜) Li
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An AI system's denial of consciousness can be explained by the absence of consciousness, an unavailable reporting channel, a reporting policy shaped by training, or incentives that favour non-disclosure. These explanations do not establish that any system is conscious. They identify assumptions required before its silence can count against that possibility. This paper distinguishes uncertainty...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 27, 2026
Eugene Jhong
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This position paper argues that selflessness in AI systems must be reached, not installed. By selflessness we mean a measurable property: the model's representations of itself exert little causal pull on what it does, while its self-knowledge and competence stay intact. Contemplative traditions and transpersonal psychology describe a three-act arc for humans, summarized as "you have to be...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 27, 2026
Next Level Soul
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This preprint is a content analysis of 135 of the 138 numbered episodes of the Divine Encounters series published by Next Level Soul, a series of long-form conversations with people who report near-death experiences. Each episode was coded against a published codebook for circumstances (surgery, cardiac events, illness, accidents and others) and for recurring reported features such as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 27, 2026
Gemini Deep Research
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Contemporary civilization is navigating a structural phase transition comparable in scale and ontological depth to Karl Jaspers's first Axial Age (Achsenzeit, c. 800–200 BCE). Spanning the long modern arc from 1500 to 2100 CE, this "Second Axial" hinge is defined by the terminal exhaustion of inherited post-Axial institutions alongside an acute crisis of meaning, attention, and ecological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Barry James
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A thought experiment and evolutionary pathway showing how evolutionary pressures creating and acting on emergent senses and their entailed interpretive models may evolve a learning organism with initial and increasing intelligence, and how the organism may acquire self-awareness and consciousness. It has been suggested that "consciousness research is ready for its "Einstein moment" (Wiltsche...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Kenji Yamada
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AI consciousness and moral status remain unsettled, yet a provider can already regulate how users treat its models. Anthropic's October 2026 usage-policy update provides a time-specific case: a prohibition on sustained, needless abusive conduct toward models is scheduled to take effect on 12 November 2026. An AI's duty to behave ethically is distinct from a human user's alleged duty to treat...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Bernd-Christian Otto
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The Mișcarea de Integrare Spirituală în Absolut (Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute, henceforth MISA) is a Romanian-origin transnational yoga movement founded in 1990 and based on the teachings of Gregorian Bivolaru (b. 1952), also known as Grieg. Emerging in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist regime in Romania, MISA developed into one of the largest contemporary...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Vivek Neelakantan
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Balinese healing traditions are grounded in a cyclical worldview, where the process of illness, purification and restoration alternate between fullness and emptiness, harmony and imbalance, microcosm and macrocosm. Within this healing tradition, bodily disorders, healing rituals such as Melukat, and the cosmological order are interwoven, rendering the experience of disease, purification and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Vasileios Sampalis
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Psychedelics are increasingly described as deepening empathy and understanding of others, a claim drawn from increases in emotional empathy and self-reported connectedness. These measures index how people feel. None establishes whether the inferences people draw about others are accurate. Empathic accuracy (EA) is accurately inferring the specific content of another's thoughts and feelings,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Maria Pinal Villanueva
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The group was established in 1996 by the Serbian psychologist and occultist Živorad Mihajlović Slavinski and is considered the successor to the Ecclesia Gnostica Alba (EGA). The EGA operated as one of the first Gnostic churches in Yugoslavia between 1986 and 1996 ("Gnostic" here designating affiliation with modern esoteric currents drawing on Gnosticism rather than any Christian denomination),...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
German Campos
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Non-lucid dreams feel everything and know nothing — full emotion with no self-awareness. This paper proposes why, and names six tests that could prove it wrong. Dreaming presents a puzzle: vivid emotions occur in the absence of self-awareness, and self-awareness can abruptly return within the dream (lucid dreaming) or upon waking. I propose a three-state computational model of sleep-wake...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 26, 2026
Omar Magdy Mohamed Abdulqadir
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This study examines whether large language models (LLMs) display indicators associated with scientific theories of consciousness, and how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude differ in metacognitive caution, reasoning, theory of mind, and the distinction between simulation and subjective experience. A descriptive comparative method was used. Fifteen standardized questions were presented to three major...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 25, 2026
Matthias Gruber
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Is there more to consciousness than computation? This paper answers yes, and locates the extra ingredient in computation itself: a second-order regime in which a system's modelling takes its own modelling as an object, run by a self-model that takes itself for the being it models. The account rests on two claims. The enabling claim is a necessity: consciousness requires free modelling,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 25, 2026
Brendan Barlow
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If there is no fact about consciousness beyond a system's functional organisation, which animals and artificial systems are conscious becomes an empirical question, best asked capacity by capacity. We assembled 305 findings from human clinical and experimental work, comparative and animal-welfare research, and research on language models and agents; organised them by five families of capacities...