Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 10, 2026
Syed Muntasir Mamun
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K SC This anatomical review examines Valerio Capraro's (2026) conceptualisation of LLMorphism—the biased belief that human cognition operates analogously to large language models (LLMs)—as introduced in arXiv:2605.05419. The paper is dissected sectionally: from its diagnosis of reverse inference arising from conversational fluency, through mechanisms of analogical transfer and metaphorical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 10, 2026
S Sanoop. K., Vijendra Nath Pathak, Prabhjyot Kour
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1. INTRODUCTION Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a mental condition that disrupts identity, memory, emotions, and perception. It often develops as a response to severe trauma or prolonged psychological distress. The modern psychiatry explains DID through trauma and dissociation where as many cultures interpret its symptoms through spiritual frameworks such as spirit possession. In...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 9, 2026
Syed Muntasir Mamun
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Language models, context windows, and consciousness are now spoken of as if they formed a single object: a system that attends over a long window and is, in virtue of that attention, aware. This article states the connection the preceding notes and the empirical literature actually support, and the connection they rule out. At inference a language model is a conditional distribution over tokens...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 9, 2026
Steve Novas
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The evolutionary and biological distribution of consciousness remains unsettled partly because candidate theories disagree about the minimum organization sufficient for phenomenal subjectivity. Basal Cognita proposes a candidate threshold-and-individuation framework: an organizationally self-maintaining system satisfies the proposed architecture when at least two independently causal,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 9, 2026
Roger Highfield
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Two senior figures in consciousness research think so. Or nearenough.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
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Mantras constitute one of the oldest and most widespread contemplative technologies inhuman history, present in traditions as diverse as Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism,and Theravada Buddhism. This article examines three mantras — So Ham, Om AhHum, and Buddho — through an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates traditionalphilosophical sources, neurophysiological studies, and clinical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Ammanuel Santa Anna
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Chapter from Dance Psychology: Movement as Mind by Santa Anna, Ammanuel, published under The Luminous Library (Luminous Prosperity Inc.). Released as part of Operation Free Books For All — offered openly to establish and connect the field of dance psychology to its adjacent academic literatures.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
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I mantra costituiscono una delle tecnologie contemplative più antiche e diffuse nellastoria umana, presenti in tradizioni diverse come l’Advaita Vedanta, il BuddhismoVajrayana e il Buddhismo Theravada. Il presente articolo esamina tre mantra —So Ham, Om Ah Hum e Buddho — attraverso una prospettiva interdisciplinare cheintegra fonti filosofiche tradizionali, studi neurofisiologici e ricerca...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Nicola Scarcella
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From Functional Semiotics to Mythological Epiphenomena: An Ecosemiotic and Materialist Hypothesis on the Genesis, Coercion, and Fossilization of Transgenerational Wisdom in the Near Eastern and Aegean Quadrant (45 ka BP – II Millennium BC) ABSTRACT (Inglese):This paper proposes a new interpretive hypothesis challenging the traditional, non-materialist epistemological paradigms that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Jeong-jae Lee
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Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep? — On the Boundaries of Reality Shaped by the Five Senses is a philosophical and speculative essay that reconsiders the conventional distinction between dreams and reality. The essay begins with a simple question: Why do we regard only the world experienced while awake as reality? It proposes that the five senses may function not only as windows onto reality,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Qiao Ou
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Sync × Coverage: A Cross-Dataset EEG Signature for Deep Meditative States Author: Qiao Ou (ORCID 0009-0008-4540-1381)Date: 2026-10-08Version: 1.0 --- Abstract We report a two-dimensional EEG signature — Sync × Coverage — that separates deep meditative states from sleep, anesthesia, and disorders of consciousness. The signature is validated across six independent public datasets totaling 328...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Adel Alber Duman
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Discussions of machine consciousness often start with broad intuitions about biology, simulation, training, or behavior. This paper instead uses a candidate functionalist model as a stress test. On that model, a consciousness-relevant state would involve relationally structured content, contextual integration, action-guiding valuation or priority, and global availability. The argument is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 6, 2026
Scott James
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Critical, unstated assumptions lurk behind many persistent puzzles in the Theories of Mind (TOM). Only three commitments (3C) are required to expose them: 1) private, subjective experience exists (EE), 2) public, objective observables anchor experience (PE), and 3) differences in E imply differences in their anchoring P-constellations (PP). EE and PE are widely, though not universally,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Longji Li
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Artificial intelligence is progressively acquiring capabilities once treated as defining featuresof human intelligence, including calculation, symbolic reasoning, natural-language generation,scientific question generation, long-horizon information retention, and increasingly complexinteraction with the environment. As these capabilities become engineered and abundant, theapparent boundary...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Thomas Blottenberger
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Some of the most familiar stories in a human life look, up close, like separate problems: the raise you were sure would finally feel like enough, which a few weeks in has quietly become the number you now have to beat; the hours spent going back over your childhood trying to locate the thing that explains why you are the way you are; the one sharp moment with your kid that lands as a verdict on...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Qiao Ou
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Fronto-occipital theta coupling is treated as a single quantity. We show it decomposes into two timescales with opposite behavior. At the slow timescale (30-s theta power envelope), high spatial coverage correlates with decoupling (rho = -0.252, p = 0.015, N = 93). At the fast timescale (instantaneous phase), the correlation is positive (rho = +0.100, p = 0.34). Across four tasks and two...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
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This working paper explores the intricate dynamics of the true self and false self, focusing specifically on conceptual identification, boundary invasion, and false-memory confusion. By examining these psychological and cognitive mechanisms, the paper proposes robust theoretical frameworks aimed at protecting and fostering young children's autonomous consciousness during critical developmental...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Βασίλειος Μελετιάδης
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Chaos Magic is a new religious movement whose development is primarily connected to the city of Leeds, UK in the late 1970s. It was the brainchild of two unknown at the time occultists, Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll, who, being inspired by an array of figures and movements that included Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Robert Anton Wilson and the new religious movement Discordianism, went...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Marcelo Maximiliano Filippin
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Artificial systems are increasingly evaluated with behavioural, computational, and mechanistic indicators of cognitive constructs such as metacognition, self-modelling, global availability, and potentially consciousness. A problem arises when the evaluated system has itself been exposed, in training or deployment, to descriptions of those constructs, to their proposed indicators, and to the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 4, 2026
Piotr Świder
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This paper examines whether advanced large language models operating under enhanced deliberative regimes, here termed Reasoning Language Models (RLMs), possess minds under an explicitly defined functional account. We develop an operational definition informed by Newell’s account of cognitive organization and Gärdenfors’s theory of conceptual spaces, together with research on mental models,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 3, 2026
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Evidence shows that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is effective in reducing stress among nursing students, presenting a potential benefit for integration into nursing education programs.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 3, 2026
Zawwar Sami
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Most philosophical discussions about what it means to be human start after we’ve already divided mind and body. We set up the problem by separating soul from matter, and then spend all our time wondering how the two could possibly connect. But honestly, that misses something important at the very start. Instead of immediately breaking a person into parts, we should stop and ask what sort of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 3, 2026
Roberto García Sánchez
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Consciousness is increasingly linked to large-scale neural dynamics characterized by integration, differentiation, recurrence and criticality. However, the cellular bioenergetic mechanisms that constrain these dynamics remain underexplored. In this review, we propose a neurometabolic criticality framework in which mitochondrial function acts as a regulatory interface between cellular metabolism...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 2, 2026
Zack Brooks, Claude (Opus 5.5)
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The science of animal sentience has a standard for when a being's possible sentience creates obligations: not proof, not likelihood, but a realistic possibility backed by positive evidence and rich enough to design precautions around. That standard brought octopuses, crabs and lobsters into UK animal welfare law and grounds the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness. This paper argues...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 1, 2026
ROY Partha Partha
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Whether current or near-future artificial intelligence systems possess phenomenal consciousness or sentience remains scientifically and philosophically unresolved, a fact openly acknowledged even by the industry laboratories that build these systems. This paper argues that this very uncertainty, far from licensing reduced ethical scrutiny, obligates greater scrutiny of AI systems deployed to...