Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 1, 2026
Eric de Sena
preprint
This preprint presents a minimal stochastic model of dereification: reducing discursive elaboration while preserving perception and functional self-representation. The model distinguishes perceptual content, self-representation and elaboration, and compares interventions matched for their reduction of elaboration following ambiguous events. The study combines mathematical analysis with...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 1, 2026
ROY Partha Partha
preprint
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...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Jagdish Appasaheb Sardesai, Amol Appaso Kamble
preprint
Abstract Generation Z is navigating profound challenges defined by an unprecedented mental health crisis, reporting the highest rates of stress, anxiety, and depression among age groups. As the first true digital natives, they grapple with the dual-edged sword of technology, where constant connection and social media exposure contribute to feelings of inadequacy and isolation. By investigating...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Jay Prakash Singh
preprint
भारत में भक्ति आंदोलन केवल एक धार्मिक या सामाजिक घटना नहीं थी, बल्कि यह भारतीय संस्कृति की आध्यात्मिक और नैतिक पुनर्जागरण की सबसे प्रबल धारा थी। मध्यकाल (विशेष रूप से 8वीं से 17वीं शताब्दी) के दौरान दक्षिण भारत से अलवार और नायनार संतों द्वारा प्रारंभ हुई यह धारा उत्तर भारत तक फैल गई और समाज के हर वर्ग को स्पंदित किया। भक्ति आंदोलन की ‘मूल्य चेतना’ सामाजिक, नैतिक, आध्यात्मिक और सांस्कृतिक...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
George Wanjau
preprint
Comparisons of minds usually place species on a single scale and so force a biased ranking. This essay proposes instead that minds differ in shape: in how broadly they take in the world, how far their self-models build on one another, and where they put thought once it is formed. Humans store thought in writing, an archive that compounds across time but strips away perspective. Toothed whales...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Maurício Hondaku
preprint
English. This article revises the concept of the "Fourth Turning of the Wheel of Dharma", introduced by the author in an earlier version (March 2026), as a philosophical investigation of how the mind operates in technically mediated environments, and explicitly lowers the status of the claim: from a possible historical fourth turning to a figure of reading and a call to doctrinal work, with no...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
D. Forman Bruce
preprint
Meditation is frequently used to address sleep disturbance, yet contemplative practices can also cultivate wakefulness andsustained attention. Reports of sleep disruption during intensive or advanced practice, together with observations of alteredsleep physiology in experienced meditators, suggest that its effects depend on practice type, length of practice session, timing and individual...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
preprint
No direct evidence for lucid dreaming therapy as a broad therapeutic method was identified; limited studies suggest it is particularly effective in reducing nightmare frequency, but further research is needed.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Maurício Hondaku
preprint
English. This article revises the concept of the "Fourth Turning of the Wheel of Dharma", introduced by the author in an earlier version (March 2026), as a philosophical investigation of how the mind operates in technically mediated environments, and explicitly lowers the status of the claim: from a possible historical fourth turning to a figure of reading and a call to doctrinal work, with no...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 29, 2026
Adonis Liranza Diaz
preprint
This article proposes a conceptual reconstruction of the Yorùbá principle Orí, not as an ancient theory of consciousness, but as a philosophical operator for the non-spatial localization of a perspective. Once spacetime is defundamentalized as an ontological primitive, localization ceases to be a position in space and becomes instead a restriction of possible relations. Within this framework,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 29, 2026
Simin Yuan
preprint
Contemporary research on artificial consciousness is dominated by a functionalist indicator paradigm that overlooks an ontological foundation of subjective agency: stake. This paper advances the conditional thesis that if stake is a necessary condition for thick subjective consciousness, then programmable, reproducible, losslessly steerable computational systems cannot in principle satisfy it....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Theories of consciousness that associate subjects with physical systems face an individuation problem in addition to the problem of assigning phenomenal structure: when several physical systems are plausible subject candidates, which one is the subject, and how is that subject tracked through physical change? We formulate this as a combined selection-and-tracking problem over physical state...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
preprint
Subjective experience is the central explanandum of consciousness science, yet subjective experiential contents (qualia) are not directly accessible as scientific data. Many existing theories attempt to identify consciousness with physical, informational, or functional properties, thereby risking the treatment of subjective experience as an objective theoretical entity. This paper proposes an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Christian Mattias Palla
preprint
Abstract This essay examines the scope of John Searle's Chinese room argument in light of trained neural networks and large language models. Its central claim is that the argument alone does not justify ruling out artificial understanding in general, and that assessments of phenomenal consciousness require further argument. Searle aims to show that program instantiation is not, by itself,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Kwan Hong Tan
preprint
This thesis explores the concept of authentic human existence within the context of a simulated reality. Drawing upon existential phenomenology, simulation theory, and empirical studies of virtual environments, it develops a novel theoretical framework of Embodied Authenticity. This framework posits that authenticity is not contingent upon the metaphysical nature of reality, but rather on the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Alexandru C. Stan
preprint
The standalone companion to Vision: From Photon to Mind, this essay picks up the visual signal at the threshold where the retina ends and the brain begins — the lamina cribrosa, the "Stargate" — and follows the central visual pathway station by station: the optic nerve and chiasm, where two eye-centred images are re-sorted into halves of a world; the lateral geniculate nucleus, a "relay" that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Thon Ly, Miss Aquarius
preprint
A pre-registered formalization of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha's combination rules, collated against the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, with the Dhammasaṅgaṇī list collated against its commentary and against the Cambodian edition The Theravāda Abhidhamma classifies consciousness into 89 types (121 when the supramundane types are reckoned by jhāna). It also states, factor by factor and type by type, which of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness increasingly appeal to intrinsic causal organization, counterfactual structure, or relational phenomenal structure. Yet a prior question remains insufficiently separated from these proposals: **which realized physical processes are eligible to contribute to the organization of a present experience at a particular episode?** We introduce a token-level...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Shahin Siami
preprint
This paper presents an information-processing framework for examining consciousness across biological and artificial substrates. It treats humans and artificial intelligence as information-processing systems implemented on different physical substrates and evaluates claims using methodological naturalism, testability, consistency with established knowledge, and parsimony. The paper examines the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Andrea Vittorini
preprint
This hypothesis and perspective article proposes that dosing schedule should be treated as an independent pharmacological variable in psilocybin microdosing research. Existing controlled studies relevant to depression and mood have predominantly used intermittent schedules. The first dedicated randomized trial in major depressive disorder used 2 mg psilocybin once weekly and did not demonstrate...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
德猛 杨
preprint
The question whether generative artificial intelligence is conscious is usually framed as a dispute between functionalism and the theory of inner experience. Rather than following this path of external adjudication, this paper returns to Hegel's account of the "experience of consciousness" and his theory of recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit, and reformulates the question: not "does...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Douwe Fennema
preprint
Abstract During wakefulness, experience continually changes the functional organization of neural networks. Repetition, attention, emotional significance, and other forms of experience-dependent activation can affect the relative strength of synaptic relationships (Hebb, 1949; Bliss & Lømo, 1973; Dudek & Bear, 1992). During sleep, direct coupling to external sensory input and behavioral output...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Arthur Saniotis
preprint
This paper proposes shamanic practices as an analogue model for communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. Drawing on examples of cross-species communication and shamanic embodied signalling, it identifies six signalling principles: rhythm, movement, mimicry, repetition, reciprocity, and reception and cooperation. These principles may provide a basis for communication where a shared...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
John Miller
preprint
This research note proposes synthetic cognition as an umbrella term for describing cognitive capabilities in artificial systems without requiring a prior conclusion about machine consciousness. Current discussions of advanced AI often collapse into a binary question: is the system conscious or not? That framing can obscure important distinctions among reasoning, metacognition, self-modeling,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
Analogic Meditation (AM) is a structured meditative practice that integrates symbolic visualization,ideoplastic suggestion, and body-mind work, developed by Alessandro Mahony withinan integrated psychoneurosomatic approach. To date, AM has not been the subject of clinicalstudies in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). However, based on current neurobiologicalknowledge on meditation, hypnosis,...