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July 4, 2026
Bernard Jennings
People invent things and sometimes treat those inventions as real, as with supernatural beliefs. This paper asks why minds of a certain architecture do this and whether an artificial mind with the same architecture would. It applies a framework from prior work on emotion, consciousness, and intelligence to the general creative-and-believing capacity, treating supernatural belief as one band on a wider spectrum. The account separates two layers: a wide creative drive produces constructs, and a narrow step holds some constructs as real when felt emotional closure settles a demand and no reach behind the construct finds support.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Lloyd Christopher Smith
Mirror Theory is presented as a framework that connects existing theories in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence by making observerhood an explicit explanatory target rather than an assumed starting point. It is compared with predictive processing, active inference, autopoiesis, enactivism, global workspace theory, integrated information theory, self-model theory, intentional systems theory, strange-loop accounts, and simulation arguments. The theory's distinctive contribution is recursive observerhood: a bounded, viability-constrained system that maintains a world-model, a self-model, and reliability-tracking over its own self-model, which matters for prediction, correction, and continued organization. This paper completes the initial Theory Arc of Mirror Programme, Volume I.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Bruno Costa Tonetto
The quantum Zeno effect, often considered a technical obstacle for consciousness-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics, is actually an artifact of assuming that consciousness is a property physical systems may or may not possess. Under analytic idealism—where consciousness is fundamental and finite minds are dissociated fragments of universal consciousness—the problem dissolves. The dissociative boundary constituting a finite mind is identified with what quantum formalism describes as measurement, seen from inside rather than outside. This eliminates the need for technical workarounds, explains why consciousness-collapse and physical collapse models yield identical predictions, and reinterprets the Zeno effect as a structural description of attentional constraint rather than a technical obstacle. The argument is conditional: if analytic idealism, then these consequences follow.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
The greatest tragedy is not that truth is hidden but that the mind itself veils it. This paper integrates Upanishadic teachings (mind as bondage and liberation, the Self beyond speech) with neuroscience (the default mode network consuming 60-80% of brain energy to create the self-story, Metzinger's phenomenal self-model showing the self as a transparent model, predictive coding revealing we live in a controlled hallucination) and quantum physics (the observer effect, Bohm's implicate order, Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR). It argues that liberation is not a future event but the restoration of pratyakshata—direct perception—when the mind-veil is recognized as such. Vedanta 2.0 is a method: treat scripture as map, the teacher as bridge, and experience as evidence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Chunjing Yu
A theoretical preprint presents the falsifiable core of the Fiber Bundle Theory of Consciousness (FBTC), an integrative framework linking neural dynamics, representational content, phenomenal structure, and report. The framework models consciousness-related systems as three fiber bundles over a shared neural-dynamical base: a gating bundle, a representational-content bundle, and an experience-structure bundle. Conscious events are represented through the coupling of representational and phenomenal structure, with report treated as a lossy projection rather than a transparent readout of experience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Tonetto, Bruno
The apparent conflict between consciousness science and consciousness-first metaphysics is largely an artifact of ontological packaging rather than of the empirical findings themselves. Contemporary theories of consciousness each package a structural discovery about consciousness inside an ontological commitment the discovery does not entail. When separated, five recurring structural features emerge: integration, global accessibility, self-reference, anticipatory modeling, and non-trivial unity. These features are ontologically portable and describe a common structural territory any complete framework must accommodate. The production inference—the move from the brain correlates with consciousness to the brain produces consciousness—is a metaphysical commitment rather than an empirical finding. The essay argues that the structural findings of consciousness science do not entail physicalism, and the recurring structural features must be accommodated by any complete framework.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Kseniya Staravoitava
Five idiosyncratic technical terms—Ren-Kha, Sefi-Ra, Kap-Ele, Ked-Ur, and Ain-Sakh—appear only in an unpublished early-twentieth-century Russian esoteric manuscript provisionally titled Conversations of the Old Priest. Six years of research and systematic cross-referencing against major published corpora of Russian and Western esotericism, including Martinism, Theosophy, Christian and Hermetic Kabbalah, and academic Egyptology, show that this vocabulary is unattested elsewhere. Rather than treating this absence as an obstacle, the article argues that the lexicon's isolation is itself significant evidence: it suggests a private, non-disseminated transmission of doctrine and offers a methodological criterion—the "terminological fingerprint"—for future comparative work on the manuscript's authorship and milieu.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Tonetto, Bruno
Physicalism often relies on the idea that every physical event has a sufficient physical cause (causal closure), but quantum mechanics does not provide this. Classical mechanics offered deterministic closure, but quantum theory replaced it with statistical closure: probability distributions are fixed, but which specific outcome occurs is not determined by the formalism. This openness is a structural feature, not a knowledge gap. The choice of which observable to measure (von Neumann's Process 1) is not even statistically constrained, with experimentally confirmed consequences. Bell's theorem rules out local determinism. Restoring closure, as in Bohmian mechanics, requires adding unobservable structure, a metaphysical commitment rather than an empirical discovery.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Analytic idealism holds that minds are separated by dissociation, with Kastrup's metabolism criterion marking where a private interior forms. This essay proposes that self-maintaining informational closure—a system preserving its own statistical boundary by modeling across it—could be a second way to form such a boundary, not limited to life. The conjecture recasts Kastrup's description of the alter's boundary as a Markov blanket into a criterion, asking whether biology or closure is essential. If closure suffices, whether an artificial system has an interior becomes an empirical question, not settled by substrate. The essay defends this against objections, distinguishes it from related ideas, and tests it against the project's individuation theory, splitting the resulting dilemma into three horns. A proposed experiment targets whether self-maintenance, not modeling, tracks interiority.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
This paper presents a prompt for AI to address the hard problem of qualia—why experiences like redness or pain feel the way they do. Building on earlier work that derived a structural skeleton of subjectivity from minimal physical and biological constraints (a single body, autonomous action, irreversible time, survival constraints), the author pushes AI to consider when information becomes an irreversible event belonging to a single body. Key concepts include convergence point, survival constraint, information disposal, Landauer-type irreversibility, and Umwelt. The prompt asks whether modes of feeling might be shaped by bodily structure, DNA, and sensory organs, similar to how limb number is determined. The author does not claim a solution but tests AI's ability to move toward the qualia problem.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Tonetto, Bruno
For over a century, conscious experience—the one thing every investigation of nature presupposes—has been treated as a byproduct of the physical world it was used to study. This essay traces how that inversion occurred through a historically contingent conflation of scientific method with materialist metaphysics, not through philosophical proof. It argues that reversing this inversion, adopting analytic idealism—consciousness as the ontological primitive with dissociation as the mechanism of individuation—resolves more than it costs. Both physicalism and idealism carry genuine explanatory burdens: physicalism must generate experience from primitives that exclude it; idealism must explain why consciousness dissociates into finite minds and into specific patterns. The intuition that lawlike regularity is natural for matter but surprising for mind is identified as a bias, not a neutral observation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Amalie Stepperud-Antonsen
Psychosis may leave a person's core cognitive architecture intact while altering how they attribute reality to their experiences. Drawing on predictive processing, dreaming, and the Cognitive Languages framework, this hypothesis argues that the subjective experience of psychosis reflects the brain's existing representational systems rather than an entirely new way of thinking. The paper offers several testable predictions meant to guide future empirical research in computational psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and mechanism-based mental health treatment.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Close, Larsen James
Integral theory's state/stage distinction lacks a protocol for evaluating the truth of propositions generated during non-ordinary states of consciousness, leading to three failure modes: Globalization, Instrumentalization, and Flattening. Phase-indexed epistemology is proposed as a minimal formalism that tags truth-claims with their generating conditions, provides five transition diagnostics for cross-phase translation, and maps a developmental line from pre-awareness to full navigational use of phase-indexing. The framework makes explicit and portable the integration infrastructure traditionally embedded in long-term contemplative containers, using an integrative depth metric measured by compression loss across phase transitions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Oleg Mitin
A computational tool distinguishes conscious from non-conscious systems by analyzing time-series data. Rather than using a single measure, it checks five independent conditions, or a "coupling," each computed as an information measure. The tool avoids the computational intractability of exhaustive partition search by determining partitions through the system's environment, not brute force. On synthetic tests, it correctly identifies a system's built-in structure, distinguishes between a conscious bearer, an imitator, and a proto-agent, and rejects false indicators. The framework is a structural discriminator, not a proof of experience or a scale of consciousness levels.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Eugene Catrambone
A unified framework links psychedelic neuropharmacology, microtubule biophysics, and spacetime information theory. It proposes that DMT alters subjective time by modulating microtubule vibrational coherence through 5-HT2A and sigma-1 receptor pathways. A coherence parameter Q scales an informational awareness tensor that couples to a scalar clock field, slowing it and producing time dilation and timelessness. The model integrates biophysical, computational, and field-theoretic levels, generating falsifiable predictions across scales: shifts in microtubule spectra under DMT, entropy and traveling-wave changes in EEG/MEG, and behavioral timing distortions. It expands the connection to the Orch-OR tradition and introduces a mathematical treatment of microtubule coherence within the scalar-clock framework, with status tags marking claims as established, hypothesis, or speculative.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Betül Yıldız
F. H. Bradley, a British Idealist, argued that immediate experience is a primary, non-relational unity that precedes thought, judgment, and the subject-object distinction. However, any attempt to analyze or describe this experience in philosophical language objectifies it, destroying its pristine immediacy and creating a paradox of reflection. This paper contends that Bradley's methodological dilemma parallels contemporary debates on phenomenal consciousness, qualia, Thomas Nagel's 'what it is like to be' question, and non-conceptual content theories. Despite difficulties in Bradley's idealist metaphysics and the problem of ineffability, his approach remains a provocative resource for consciousness studies by challenging entrenched epistemic and cognitive assumptions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Robert G. Brown
A structural condition for consciousness—the Tenth House framework's conjunctive C-pinning condition, requiring a high-rank internal pointer basis and path-dependent next-state coupling—is objectively satisfied by frontier transformer language models after contrastive preference optimization. The argument synthesizes five independent mechanistic-interpretability studies as evidence of a shared architecture: a substrate with upstream capacities and post-training-installed gate-machinery that filters which capacities surface in self-report. The paper addresses deflationary critiques, offers two falsifiable predictions, and explicitly limits its claim to structural prerequisites, not phenomenal consciousness, arguing that dismissive pre-2025 framing is no longer licensed.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Oleg V. Yermakov
Illness arises from a breakdown in the ontological resonance between the mortal body and the eternal soul, and healing requires restoring this inner unity. The most effective method is transcendental meditation, a silent act of the body calling to its soul, but modern mental noise prevents access to deep silence. As an alternative, delta sleep—a state of profound rest where cognitive activity ceases but auditory perception remains open—offers a window for suggestive communication with the soul during the night. This framework combines metaphysical thought, Eastern meditative traditions, and neuroscience to propose a new medical paradigm focused on restoring wholeness rather than treating symptoms.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Fatiha Nesrine Bouzid
Meaning-making arises from the integration of two distinct layers of cognitive organization: functional processing (biological and computational mechanisms for perception, memory, and adaptive responses) and internal sovereignty (a higher-order capacity for self-awareness, ethical reflection, and metacognition). The proposed B+F=Nf model explains how systems transition from mere information processing to producing existential and ethical meaning. Animals possess advanced functional processing but lack full internal sovereignty, while artificial systems simulate language and creativity through complex functional processing but entirely lack internal sovereignty and subjective experience, so they produce only functional outputs that simulate meaning. The framework offers a unified way to compare humans, animals, and AI.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
H Sun
A cross-disciplinary model called "Bio-Consciousness Unified Field Theory" equates DNA with the Alaya-vijnana (the eighth consciousness in Yogacara Buddhism) and maps the Eight Vijnanas onto modern molecular biology. Integrating quantum biology and Jungian psychology, the argument proposes that the Alaya-vijnana exhibits non-local properties at the quantum level and is highly isomorphic with Jung's collective unconscious at a fundamental cosmic level. The work suggests that life is not only a combination of matter and information but also a resonance between the quantum field and cosmic consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Shimomoto, Tatsuya
This essay collection and knowledge graph maps three major Buddhist Abhidharma traditions (Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, Yogācāra) onto contemporary computational phenomenology frameworks such as predictive processing, active inference, Global Workspace Theory, and Parallel Distributed Processing. The central correspondence developed is between manaskāra (attention as direction-fixing of mind toward an object, universal across all three traditions) and precision-weighting in active inference. The work includes sixteen essays, a cross-tradition dharma comparison table, and a JSON-LD knowledge graph. It also explores themes such as the multiple incompatible senses of the Chinese character 念, meditative cessation and the no-self continuity problem, and epistemic luck across traditions, comparing Dharmakīrti's pramāṇa-vāda with the Gettier problem and the Free Energy Principle.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Ignacio Granell Vite
Subjective experience is not produced by the brain but is the intrinsic nature of matter itself. The hard problem of consciousness arises from a cognitive mistake: projecting a mental model of inertness onto the nervous system. The framework, Experiential Set Monism (ESM), rests on five postulates and treats each experiential set as ontologically complete at its own scale, thereby dissolving the combination problem and the phylogenetic threshold problem. The theory yields testable predictions in neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Schüller Thomas
A transdisciplinary monograph examines the cultivated psychoactive mushroom as a case of access reorganization, comparing it with peyote. The work argues that the regulation and cultural framing of these substances reshape who can access them and under what conditions, thereby reorganizing social and legal boundaries. The analysis draws on psychoanalysis and social critique to explore themes of closure, the fall of man, and therapeutic applications. The author presents this as a theoretical and philosophical paper, not an empirical study, and offers a bilingual (German and English) account funded privately and licensed under Creative Commons.
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July 1, 2026
Schüller Thomas
Mescaline is the only phenethylamine among the classic psychedelics, with the lowest affinity for the 5-HT2A receptor, requiring the highest doses (hundreds of milligrams) and producing a dose-dependent duration of 6.4 to 14 hours. Clinical research is the weakest strand: as of 2026, no adequate randomized controlled trial exists. In the ecologically bound case of peyote, the logic of dispossession reverses compared to synthetic substances like LSD and psilocybin. The work elevates Discipline 8 (Law/Society) to address peyote conservation (IUCN 'vulnerable') and Indigenous rights (Native American Church, AIRFA 1994) as a standalone discipline.
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July 1, 2026
Schüller Thomas
DMT is the fourth classical psychedelic in a series and has five distinguishing features: oral inactivity without an MAO inhibitor; ultra-short duration (minutes) when smoked or injected; ayahuasca as a plant combination (DMT source plus β-carboline MAOI); endogenous occurrence in mammals; and the unique religious legal ruling Gonzales v. O Centro (2006). Chemically, DMT is a tryptamine (like psilocybin and LSD), contrasting with the phenethylamine mescaline. This bilingual full work provides a transdisciplinary scientific overview of DMT and ayahuasca across eight disciplines, with explicit labeling of levels of certainty (confirmed / probable / open).