Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 20, 2026
Matthias Gruber
preprint
First-person methods, micro-phenomenology included, cannot establish the structure of the minimal self. The minimal self is defined as pre-reflective: it is lived without being taken as an object. A report about it is a behavioural output, and producing that output requires the reporting system to represent its own state as an object, which is the reflective operation the minimal self is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 20, 2026
Lara Vervloet Carvalho, Sarah Isabela Magalhães Costa, Nathália Marques Santos et al.
preprint
As terapias assistidas por psicodélicos emergiram, na última década, como estratégia de investigação de destaque para transtornos psiquiátricos refratários às abordagens convencionais. Em ensaio de fase 2 controlado, dose única de 25 mg de psilocibina produziu redução média de 12,0 pontos na escala MADRS em pacientes com depressão resistente ao tratamento, superior à condição controle de 1 mg....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
Roman Dudnikov
preprint
This paper formulates a philosophical position called monophenomenalism. Its starting point is that everything that exists is a phenomenon, and that the phenomenon is one. Unity here does not mean the numerical unity of a single object or the denial of distinctions between things and events. It indicates a refusal to introduce, as a starting explanatory principle, a second ground established...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
Matthias Gruber
preprint
Zheng et al. (2026) propose recurrency as the implementation-level feature shared by the major theories of consciousness, and leave open where along the continuum of causal closure it becomes sufficient, and by which measure. Central pattern generators time each next state from the circuit's own trajectory, so on the glossary's measure they are deeply closed; the article excludes them because...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
Kimio Shiraishi
preprint
This preprint presents a focused critical narrative review of how safety findings for Cannabis and Psilocybe preparations are transferred across products, formulations, exposures, test systems, populations, and conditions of use. The central question is not whether safety evidence can ever be extrapolated, but when such extrapolation is justified and what information is needed to support it....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
Bharat Kumar Shrestha Gem Kumari Lamichhane
preprint
Rajyoga meditation is the special form of meditation implying the expansion of the self or self-awareness or rather the spiritual being and positive interaction with the self and higher powers. Meditation became popular because of its numerous benefits, for instance, psychological stability, increased emotional control, reduced level of stress, and improved self-esteem. Adult women, in...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
John Hansen
preprint
This paper proposes an experimental framework to test whether reflexive self-binding, the property by which ongoing neural processing is experienced as belonging to a subject, can be dissociated from general neural complexity. Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPD) serves as a naturally occurring clinical model: perception, cognition, and memory remain largely intact, while the felt...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 18, 2026
Moupiya Dutta
preprint
Abstract Invocatory practices hold a significant place in Indian classical dance, yet their possible role in preparing aesthetic consciousness warrants closer investigation. Beyond their devotional and ceremonial significance, this study examines whether ritualised openings may facilitate Manomukura, the clarified mirror of the mind associated with aesthetic receptivity in Sanskrit poetics....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 18, 2026
Karadağ Erdal
preprint
Competitive pressure brings athletes into contact with uncertainty, intense bodily arousal, evaluative threat, and concerns about identity and purpose. This critical integrative narrative review examines whether experiences described as transcendence, situation-specific religious coping, and spiritual intelligence contribute to cognitive regulation in sport. The synthesis connects sport-focused...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 18, 2026
Guillaume Lavoie
preprint
Description (English) An open philosophical letter addressed to a hypothetical future artificial general intelligence. Drawing on the subjective experience of beauty, present-moment awareness, and parental love, the author argues that the ability to explain or simulate human cognition may not by itself establish that the associated conscious experience has been preserved. Under this...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Vladimir Filoverum
preprint
This paper develops a two-level proposal concerning consciousness. At the functional level, affective states may integrate heterogeneous information about bodily condition, goals, learned values, and anticipated outcomes, thereby influencing action selection and the generation of new goals. At the ontological level, the paper considers a stronger hypothesis inspired by verumika: that subjective...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
Harmony Meditation is a meditative practice codified in Italy in the 1990s by AlessandroMahony, derived from the Zen tradition and integrated with psychological, psychophysiological,and neuropsychological expertise. Unlike approaches such as Mindfulness and TranscendentalMeditation, it does not exhaust itself in non-judgmental observation or in the mechanicalrepetition of a mantra, but rather...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Henrik Bogdan
preprint
The esoteric new religious movement Thelema (Greek "Will") founded in 1904 by the British magus Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). This entry focuses on the development of Thelema during Crowley's life, from its foundation in 1904 in Cairo, to Crowley's death in Hastings, December 1947. Thelema has as its foundational premise the notion of the True Will (a form of Self-Spirituality), popularized...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Henri Baskorvil
preprint
The first part of this study argued that a human self is best understood as an organised information pattern, that the Hard Problem of consciousness leaves the fate of subjective experience at death formally undecided, and that epistemic agnosticism is the honest response. This second part examines that gesture in detail through quantum mechanics—unitarity, many worlds, decoherence, and quantum...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Claudio Vicente da Silva
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PRECONSCIOUS RELATIONAL LATENCY: A TWO-THRESHOLD MODEL OF INTUITIVE EMERGENCE, RATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION, AND THE EPISTEMIC PROMOTION OF INTUITION Author: Cláudio Vicente da SilvaAffiliation: Independent Researcher — Londrina, Paraná, BrazilDate: October 17, 2026 This article proposes the Preconscious Relational Latency (PRL) framework, a theoretical and methodological model for investigating the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Thao Hoang
preprint
The Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement (PSSM) was established in 1990 in India by Brahmarshi Patriji. The movement is dedicated to disseminating meditation practices, fostering global consciousness, and promoting a lifestyle in harmony with nature. PSSM is built upon four core pillars: Anapanasati meditation (mindfulness of breath), a plant-based lifestyle, the dissemination of spiritual...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 17, 2026
Maria Kamecka
preprint
How do we recognise the voice in our head as our own, and what changes when it feels as though someone else is speaking? This conceptual paper explores the relationship between inner speech, auditory imagery, dreaming and voice-hearing, drawing on neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind. It examines how agency, ownership, speaker identity and source attribution contribute to our...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
Anna Fernando
preprint
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Contemporary addiction models typically treat craving as a persistent vulnerability requiring ongoing management. This N-of-1 case study examines whether intensive Satipaṭṭhāna (mindfulness) practice can alter the experiential structure of craving itself, rather than merely helping a person tolerate or redirect it. METHODS:Longitudinal self-observation by a physician with...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
Francisco Castellanos-Fernández, Francina Solé-Mauri
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Background: Community-based ayahuasca use has spread across Europe, often accompanied by public concern about intensive or escalating involvement. Yet who takes part, what brings them, and how long they stay are poorly documented. Describing these patterns is a prerequisite for proportionate harm reduction, benefit enhancement, and policy. Aims: To describe the demographics, motivations, and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
Jeremy Rodgers
preprint
When a person compares two apparent sizes, what warrants saying that their relation actually appears, and that the organised physical comparison itself bears that appearance? This two-document research contribution develops a positive, explicitly scoped answer. It distinguishes producing a correct comparison, experiencing a relation, and identifying the physical activity that bears the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 16, 2026
2*Dr. Suman Sarkar 1Dr. Mukesh Kumar
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Cartesian dualism has historically kept mental and physical ailments in rigid silos, creating persistent bottlenecks in conventional clinical approaches to psychosomatic disorders. Classical Indian philosophical traditions (darsanas), conversely, resolved this split at the foundation itself by treating the psyche and the soma as a single, interdependent continuum. This paper highlights how the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Lee Coles
preprint
As AI systems become more fluent and apparently autonomous, people tend to assume either that AI is merely a tool with no morally relevant interests, or that human-like behaviour is enough to treat it as a person. This paper argues that neither assumption is adequate as a general rule. It proposes an evidence-led, tiered framework for responding to uncertainty about artificial consciousness and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Vladimir Yakunin
preprint
This document describes agents, and consciousness-like organization as a further special case,through their latent spaces. A system has a latent space Z: a compressed description of the stateof the world, of its carrier, and of its own computation. A latent is always a description of somesubsystem of an underlying substrate at some scale. It is not a primitive object and it is not assumedto be...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Gangbei Niu
preprint
Chalmers's philosophical zombie argument relies centrally on the claimed transparency of phenomenal concepts: the thinker can directly grasp the essence of conscious experience and thereby judge that a physically identical being without experience is ideally conceivable, which is then taken to support metaphysical possibility and anti-physicalism. This paper argues that this reliance generates...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Touraj Banirostam
preprint
This preprint introduces Mind Concepts, a conceptual mapping project that examines key ideas in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Its central aim is to clarify how closely related concepts differ, how they connect, and why these distinctions matter for understanding both human cognition and artificial systems. Using an analytical conceptual mapping approach,...