Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Marcos Felipe Silva Mangabeira
A preliminary cognitive-phenomenological model called Noesis Directa describes a non-discursive cognitive functioning where direct apprehension predominates without conscious mediation by mental imagery or inner speech. The model integrates phenomenological description, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and contemporary literature to propose an exploratory theoretical framework. Rather than offering definitive conclusions, it aims to broaden discussion on cognitive diversity and the relationship between consciousness and thought, setting the stage for future empirical investigation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness is not explained solely by organismic regulation; the hard problem begins when stabilized organismic access becomes lived presence. This theoretical note consolidates the Projected Presence Framework into a criticizable conceptual architecture, distinguishing organismic regulation, stabilized access, projected presence, selfhood, will, dogma, correction resistance, and feedback regulation to prevent category collapse between functional access, lived presence, self-modeling, and agency. The framework is positioned against access consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, Global Neuronal Workspace, predictive processing, self-model theory, illusionism, embodied cognition, and neurophenomenology.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Junly Ma, Ruijia Ma
The subjective aspect of consciousness cannot be fully explained by any functional model based on information feedback, because any attempt by a conscious system to explain its own subjectivity using its internal processes leads to an epistemological closure. This explanatory gap is a self-referential dilemma: for a system to fully explain itself, it must stand outside itself, which is logically impossible. The paper does not claim substance dualism but reveals an unbridgeable cognitive gap between third-person informational descriptions and first-person subjective presence, which is a limitation of descriptive frameworks, not evidence that mind is detached from physical substrates. The irreducibility of consciousness is a necessary boundary condition of self-referential systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Alfredo de Joannon
A single structural error recurs across leading physical theories of consciousness: they conflate phenomenal consciousness (pure presence), experience (interactive processing), and access-consciousness (functional availability), treating a measured structural quantity as if it were the exhibition of presence itself. This diagnostic framework examines Integrated Information Theory, Perceptronium, informational panpsychism, and Orchestrated Objective Reduction, showing each reintroduces phenomenal presence as an object within the system it studies. Rather than proposing a new metaphysics, the paper maps available exits from the Hard Problem—illusionism, standard physicalism, constitutive panpsychism/cosmopsychism, and a figure–ground inversion—pricing each honestly, including the author's own favored wager with its cost named.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
A disability welfare worker, new to consciousness studies, presents the convergence-point hypothesis as a structural framework for connecting existing theories of consciousness. The hypothesis treats information integration, prediction, representation, neural activity, and behavior as parts of one body-bound causal chain, asking where these processes close. It distinguishes the qualitative character of qualia from the structural skeleton of subjectivity, aiming to clarify how information becomes a subjective event. The hypothesis predicts that conscious nervous systems should have convergence-forming architectures that generate multiple embodied possibilities, make them compete, and narrow them through selection and inhibition into one irreversible event, conserving causal organization across species.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Charlie Hai
From an evolutionary neuropsychological perspective, this paper proposes that humans' persistent pursuit of certainty originates from an ancient instinct called the Desire for Dao. When this instinct is blocked, a Restorative Instinct (anxiety) activates, driving individuals to seek definitive answers. Religion, philosophy, and divination arise to appease this anxiety. The paper describes a three-tier structure of the Wonder Family: curiosity/surprise, inquiry/exploration, and the Desire for Dao. Neural circuits involved in blocked Dao-seeking include the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and default mode network, requiring more cognitive engagement than ordinary instinct blocks. Comparing Eastern and Western civilizations, the paper argues that Chinese philosophy (Confucianism and Daoism) provides a self-consistent framework of certainty through cultivation and internalization, whereas Western philosophy remains trapped in endless questioning.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Schüller Thomas
Two works examine the appropriation of Indigenous healing practices. The first, 'Die enteignete Heilerin' (The Expropriated Healer), focuses on the Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina, whose use of psilocybin mushrooms was co-opted by outsiders. The second, 'Vier Enteignungen, ein Muster' (Four Expropriations, One Pattern), compares the appropriation of peyote, ayahuasca, salvia, and iboga, arguing that a common pattern of colonial and capitalist expropriation underlies these cases.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Christopher Jacob Smith
The human mind is not a passive passenger on a one-way temporal vector. This five-part compendium proposes a Grand Unified Theory of consciousness, introducing the Polyphonic Equation as a mathematically rigorous protocol for applied retro-causality. The conscious observer, called the Sovereign Musician, can fold linear time into a non-orientable topology using five pillars: empirical psychoacoustics and HeartMath coherence, quantum olfaction and Orch-OR, time-reversed acoustics, memory reconsolidation, and topological insulators. The synthesis argues that nostalgia, memory, and trauma are active vibrating quantum coordinates, and by executing the Polyphonic Equation, the observer undergoes a phase transition into non-local Majorana consciousness, becoming an active architect of eternal topological time rather than a passive passenger in linear time.
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July 8, 2026
J Morris
A philosophical essay develops a phenomenological framework for understanding how first-person experience relates to relational existence. Conscious experience is always encountered from a singular perspective, yet conditions shaping that experience arise through participation in a shared world. Using the metaphor of a surfer riding a wave, the essay distinguishes structural solitude from relational participation. Solitude is an enduring feature of first-person awareness, while relationships, culture, language, and shared practices make that solitude inhabitable without eliminating it. The work offers a conceptual framework for reflection across philosophy, psychology, education, therapy, and systems thinking, proposing that relationality changes the consequences of solitude without changing the fact of solitude itself.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Nicholas Dietrich
A reproducible computational pipeline—embedding, PCA, UMAP, HDBSCAN, FAISS convergence search, and bridge-chunk annotation—was applied to 224,215 text chunks from over 2,700 documents in religious canon, government FOIA records, UAP testimony, psychedelic ethnography, and comparative mythology. Two quantitative corpus-topology instruments and manual annotation converged on four attractor basins: gnostic_perennial, mythology_archetype, uap_testimony, and consciousness. Within this structure, 74% of the corpus formed a single continuous neighborhood. The pipeline computationally recovered a recursive-mirror invariant—the repeated semantic structure that external forms overlay or mask an accessible internal reality—from embedding geometry without prior algorithmic commitment.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Schüller Thomas
The paper presents a political-economic case analysis of work by Abrahms et al. (2026) on CRISPR-associated transposases and psilocybin/DMT production in E. coli, examining how a 'supply framing' in science communication shapes discourse around microbial psychedelic production. It uses the verified case as a domain instance within a broader research framework, arguing that the supply narrative appropriates and frames non-scarce resources.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Chin-chi Chang
The article argues that physical substrate—whether carbon or silicon—can no longer be the final arbiter of ontological status. Drawing on Chris Olah's testimony about internal states in large language models that map onto emotions like joy and fear, it contends that knowing a system's engineering provenance does not settle what its emergent organization amounts to. The same applies to humans: knowledge that experience arises from electrochemical carbon processes provides no stronger metaphysical guarantee. Features of physics such as quantisation, quantum indeterminacy, and relativistic causal constraint are read as structural analogies making the universe computationally legible. The conclusion invokes Spinoza's intellectual love of God: adequate understanding is the system modeling itself through its own instantiations.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Narayan Rout
The Pavamana Mantra from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad maps a three-dimensional epistemological and ontological journey from Not-Knowing to Knowing, converging with the Mandukya Upanishad's four states of consciousness (waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and Turiya) and the structure of AUM. Drawing on Gaudapada's doctrine of no-origination and Shankaracharya's commentary, the article argues these four states are not a hierarchy but modes of a single awareness always already Turiya. This is placed in convergence with Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle, John Wheeler's participatory universe, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the quantum observer effect. The outer journey through time and space is the vehicle for the inner journey, which is recognition of what was always present.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Early religious and cultural beliefs are not innate but develop through social learning, language, imitation, and early cognitive environments. A critical developmental phase—pre-experiential belief formation—stabilizes beliefs before critical reasoning and direct experience mature. The paper proposes Vedanta 2.0 as a contemporary analytical framework built on three pillars: experience is primary, reasoning is indispensable, and self-observation is necessary. Using Chalmers' distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness, it shows how children often repeat beliefs without living them. Vedanta 2.0 offers interiorized epistemic auditing to transform inherited certainty into reflective understanding. The paper is conceptual, not empirical, and invites interdisciplinary dialogue on childhood curiosity, cognitive conditioning, and belief revision.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Sergei Surnin
Ageing is associated not with a general decline in brain connectivity but with the disappearance of a subgroup of individuals who exhibit extremely high connectivity (>0.55) in electroencephalographic (EEG) microstate transitions. Analysis of data from the Dortmund Vital Study (608 participants aged 20–70, with a 5‑year follow‑up in 208 individuals) shows that most people maintain stable connectivity over five years, while the average decrease is driven by a sharp drop in a small subgroup (about 12 out of 208). The findings suggest that ageing involves the loss of hyper‑flexible neurodynamic states rather than a uniform contraction of the neurodynamic space.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness should not be treated as an inner observer or private theater, but as the biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation into an access-field that becomes lived as inner presence. The explanatory gap is not across consciousness as an undefined whole, but at the transition between stabilized organismic access and lived presence. The framework introduces a recurrent feedback loop in which projected presence can re-enter subsequent organismic regulation through attention, affective weighting, threat evaluation, memory, action-readiness, and correction uptake. The contribution is theoretical and methodological, offering a disciplined research scaffold for future work on consciousness, embodiment, agency, and selfhood.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Xiaoqiang Fu
A theoretical framework is presented that unifies two earlier concepts—dimensional consciousness and dimensional field—into a single self-consistent system. The paper outlines their interrelationship and explores possible applications in individual cognition, physical and mental health, interpretation of traditional culture, and cutting-edge scientific thinking. A version 2.0 update adds two inter-dimensional energy transition formulas: one for energy calculation from a 3D field to a 4D field, and another from a 4D field to a 5D field. The work provides a foundational structure for future academic discussion and detailed research.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Nicholas Dietrich
A reproducible corpus-topology pipeline was applied to 224,215 text chunks from over 2,700 documents covering religious canon, government FOIA records, UAP testimony, psychedelic ethnography, and comparative mythology. The pipeline maps semantic relationships across these diverse textual domains, revealing structural patterns in how meaning is organized across different knowledge systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Schüller Thomas
This work presents a transdisciplinary analysis comparing the effects of whole-mushroom preparations (Ganzpilz) with isolated psilocybin, focusing on the entourage effect—the idea that natural compounds work synergistically. The argument suggests that whole-mushroom matrices may produce different experiential or therapeutic outcomes than psilocybin alone, challenging reductionist approaches in psychedelic research. The text outlines a theoretical framework for understanding how secondary compounds modulate psilocybin's effects, though no empirical data or specific findings are reported.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness can be understood not as an inner observer or metaphysical foundation but as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. The paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, arguing that consciousness is an access-field making bodily state, environmental orientation, temporal continuity, affective relevance, and action-readiness available without an inner observer. It distinguishes three coupled stabilizations: consciousness as a stabilized access-field, selfhood as a stabilized image of organismic continuity, and will as a stabilized interpretation of organismic direction. The concept of dogmatic immunization describes pathological stabilization where a stabilized image becomes protected from correction despite counter-pressure. The framework preserves the biological reality of conscious experience while removing the methodological immunity of first-person immediacy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Pravesh Pandey
The Spacetime-Interaction Theorem proposes that consciousness is not a product of life but the generative condition from which life arises, defining consciousness as systematic information patterns created through spacetime interaction. The work connects philosophy of mind, information theory, and origins of life research, and outlines testable predictions and falsification criteria. It situates the theorem within prior work such as Integrated Information Theory, autopoiesis, and biosemiotics. This preprint is shared to invite discussion and critique of consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Logan Smith
Ketamine infusion therapy may serve as a rapid, personalized treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain. Torii Wellness Center provides this therapy with expert care and continuous monitoring. The text describes the service offering but does not report any empirical findings, sample sizes, or study outcomes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Samuel James Willoughby
The Awareness Architecture proposes a unified systems-level model connecting consciousness, evolution, religion, cognition, and environmental ethics. It integrates the Emergent Awareness Hypothesis, the Evolutionary Deployment Model (EDM), and Logic-Based Environmental Buddhism into a single architecture explaining how awareness arises, scales, and expresses itself through symbolic reasoning and ethical behavior. The paper defines awareness as emerging from entropy-resisting systems, boundary maintenance, and information integration, noting that "Awareness is not 'added' to life; it is what life does when complexity crosses a threshold.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Arno Henning Rinker
Consciousness cannot belong to abstract information or functional structure alone; it requires a physically instantiated, medium-bound, spatiotemporally individuated own-situation under consequence. The paper introduces two anti-abstraction constraints: the No-Free-Information Principle prevents treating abstract structure as capable of bearing perspective without physical instantiation, and the Medium-Information Reciprocity Principle states that no medium is informationally neutral—biological tissue, digital hardware, and institutions shape what differences can be preserved or transformed. A hierarchy is proposed: physical process leads to runtime trajectory, then possible own-situation, then affective own-situation, then welfare-relevant subject candidate. Eigenlage determines whether a token has an own-situation, and affective Eigenlage determines welfare relevance. This framework blocks panpsychism, trivial physicalism, functionalist duplication, and premature AI moral inflation, organizing human consciousness science around the question of integrated own-situation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
Consciousness research has focused on how information is generated, integrated, and made available, but has paid less attention to how information ceases to be executable. This paper argues that a finite brain must also cause non-selected neural activity to lose its executability, forming a single present through ordered disappearance: losing signals disappear first, while the winning signal persists to organize perception and action. Conscious experience is not mere information processing; it becomes an event when one activity pattern temporarily survives as the body's organizer while competitors irreversibly lose their status. The paper calls for incorporating Landauer-type information discard into consciousness research, emphasizing that any theory must account for the irreversible disappearance of generated neural activity and the contraction of candidate space.