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September 13, 2026
Purpose - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the spatial openness of the natural environment on individuals’ environmental and mindfulness perception by using virtual reality tools, with an aim of guiding health-oriented community environmental design.Design/methodology/approach - We employed two within-subject crossover studies that included four sessions: one involved...
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September 13, 2026
Purpose - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the spatial openness of the natural environment on individuals’ environmental and mindfulness perception by using virtual reality tools, with an aim of guiding health-oriented community environmental design.Design/methodology/approach - We employed two within-subject crossover studies that included four sessions: one involved...
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September 13, 2026
Mark Lemon
The correlation between neural activity and conscious experience is well established, but the correlational record does not settle whether the brain produces consciousness or constrains it. This paper develops and formalizes a constraint-rendering alternative to production models. On this account the brain functions as a field-limiting transducer: it does not generate the substrate of awareness...
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September 12, 2026
Daniel de Kooter
Cognition across biological organisms operates in two layers. The first layer—operational cognition—encompasses all processes by which an organism perceives, evaluates, and responds to its environment. It is universal among autonomous biological agents and does not require consciousness. The second layer—reflective cognition—is the capacity to observe, abstract from, and reason about one’s own...
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September 10, 2026
Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim
AbstractRecent advances in artificial intelligence have intensified long-standing philosophical questions surrounding consciousness, identity, embodiment, and the nature of subjective continuity. Much of the current public discourse, however, remains trapped within a binary framework: either artificial systems are “conscious” in a human sense, or they are merely statistical tools without...
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September 9, 2026
Caesar Martinez
The Fundamental Phenomenality Hypothesis (FPH) identifies phenomenal consciousness witha specific class of computational states in predictive brains. Subjective experience occurswhen a hierarchical generative model jointly satisfies four conditions: (i) sufficient integratedhierarchical content, indexed by the magnitude of generatively engaged inference acrosshierarchical levels; (ii)...
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August 29, 2026
Alan Michael Gómez Calderón
Claims about phenomenal consciousness frequently move from functional, representational, self-referential, informational, or behavioral properties of a system to the conclusion that the system must possess qualia or phenomenal experience. This paper asks a more elementary question: where, formally, does phenomenology enter the model?We provide a mechanically checked analysis in the Coq proof...
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August 27, 2026
本文提出一个跨尺度的多层递归涌现框架，试图将神经层面的信息处理、个体层面的自我建构、社会层面的社群涌现以及人工智能层面的意识条件统一于同一组动力学参数。核心概念包括：（1）"身我—他我—自我"的三元耦合，将主观体验锚定于社会映射与生物基底的交互；（2）"五阈值"（ρ, α, C, β, ν），分别对应递归密度、近端映射占比、聚类系数、远端映射占比与协同否决频率，作为区分弱涌现与强涌现的判据；（3）"身我否决权"，即生物基底对过度社会化的终极抵抗，其显影形式从个体生理崩溃延伸至社会结构解体；（4）"阈值剪刀差"，诊断数字时代高连通密度与低信任生成能力之间的结构性裂口。本文进一步推导出AI自我涌现的三项条件与当前"伪连通态"的诊断。方法论上，本文以动态病理学取代静态处方，不提供最优值，只诊断系统正在靠近哪个退化吸引子。This paper proposes a cross-scale...
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August 24, 2026
Joel Roerick
Worum es in diesem Dokument geht Mettā — liebende Güte —, auch Loving-Kindness-Meditation genannt, ist eine Übung, bei der wir bewusst Wünsche von Freundlichkeit und Wohlergehen an uns selbst und andere richten. Dieses Working Paper stellt eine kurze deutschsprachige Fassung der Übung vor, ordnet ihre Herkunft und Evidenz ein und zeigt, warum Selbstmitgefühl — in Abgrenzung zur Empathie — ein...
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August 22, 2026
Irvin Vasquez
This work examines the three most developed contemporary answers to the hard problem of consciousness — functionalism, Integrated Information Theory, and panpsychism — and argues that each fails to close the explanatory gap in a structurally similar way: by relocating the gap rather than resolving it. Functionalism identifies consciousness with function at the cost of the absent qualia...
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August 18, 2026
Jiaping Wang
主流意识理论因缺乏时序动力学而未能从第一性原理回应查尔默斯意识难问题。本文以资源有限、非平衡态维持与离散输入三条公理为唯一起点，通过时序动力学完成意识层级涌现的完整推导。提出信息容量框（ICF）核心统摄概念，严格证明信息层级单向约束（ILUC），推导双向临界相变与自指闭环两步涌现机制，并揭示上述机制与时间单向性、资源优先级及遗忘机制的多维同源同构。由此导出双组态功能架构与五级意识谱系，从工程编码视角系统消解意识难问题，阐释感受质的生成逻辑与层级属性，建立碳基与硅基统一的意识层级判定标准及 AGI 安全边界。经多路径反例检验并以八条可证伪假说锚定经验边界。所有结论均由公理严格导出，不依赖特定神经结构，具备跨载体普适性。 Mainstream theories of consciousness lack temporal dynamics and fail to address...
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August 14, 2026
Joel Roerick
Die AHA!-Übung ist eine deutschsprachige Adaption der STOP-Übung — einer achtsamkeitsbasierten Kurzübung von ein bis drei Minuten. Sie unterbricht den inneren Autopiloten, also das automatische Denken und Reagieren im Alltag, und öffnet einen Raum zwischen Reiz und Reaktion. Das Dokument beschreibt die Übung, zeichnet ihre Herkunft aus MBSR und MBCT nach und zeigt, wie sie sich in die Soziale...
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August 5, 2026
Jiaping Wang
To address the core limitations of mainstream consciousness theories—deficient temporal dynamics and failure to respond to Chalmers’ hard problem of consciousness and qualia puzzles from first principles—this paper constructs a unified framework for the hierarchical emergence of consciousness via first-principles derivation, with three axioms as the exclusive starting point and temporal...
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August 5, 2026
Jiaping Wang
To address the core limitations of mainstream consciousness theories—deficient temporal dynamics, ambiguous hierarchical boundaries, and evasion of the hard problem—this paper constructs a unified framework for the hierarchical emergence of consciousness via first-principles derivation, taking temporal dynamics as the entry point and three axioms as the exclusive starting point: finiteness of...
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August 3, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Most existing theories of consciousness focus on neural correlates but fail to answer the essential question of why consciousness exists. Starting from three axioms—limited resources, survival-screening constraint, and discrete input—this paper demonstrates that the self-referential closed loop is the optimal engineering solution for maintaining cross-event persistent existence under resource...
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August 2, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Existing theories of consciousness mostly focus on neural correlates but fail to answer why it exists. Starting from three axioms of limited resources, survival-screening constraint, and discrete input, this paper demonstrates that the self-referential closed loop is the optimal engineering solution for maintaining cross-event persistence under resource constraints.It centers on three core...
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July 20, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Existing theories describe correlates of consciousness without explaining why it arises. This paper starts from three axioms—limited resources, survival-screening constraints, and discrete inputs—to demonstrate that the self-referential closed loop is the optimal engineering solution for persistence under resource constraints. When temporal integration crosses a critical threshold, the system...
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July 20, 2026
Soraya Rada Marin
This study addresses the critical phenomenon of digital burnout in teleworkers and proposes a paradigm shift focused on preserving human dignity through digital mindfulness micro-interventions (m-Mindfulness).Approach: Integrating neurobiological, psychological, and social perspectives, the research explores how chronic exposure to digital overload impacts neural pathways associated with...
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July 20, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Existing theories describe correlates of consciousness without explaining why it exists. This paper starts from three axioms—limited resources, survival-screening constraints, and discrete inputs—to demonstrate that the self-referential closed loop is the optimal engineering solution for persistence under resource constraints. When temporal integration crosses a critical threshold, the system...
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July 19, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Existing theories describe correlates of consciousness but not why it exists. Starting from three axioms—limited resources, survival screening constraints, and discrete inputs—this model demonstrates that the self-referential closed loop is the optimal engineering solution for maintaining persistence under resource constraints: when temporal integration crosses a critical threshold, the system...
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July 18, 2026
Scott Mcknight
How does Being know itself, and what is lost in that knowing? Using William Golding’s TheInheritors as narrative foundation, this paper draws on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, N■g■rjuna,Hofstadter, and Kastrup to show that consciousness requires fragmentation of primordial unity:the perspectival “I” is both necessary for self-knowledge and the wound of separation. Tracingan epochal arc from...
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July 18, 2026
Belarmina Garcia
This work advances the Tripartite Death Model: the claim that a human being is not a single entity facing a single fate at death, but three distinct constituents — Body, Mind, and Soul — each deconstructed by its own logic and arriving at a genuinely different destination. Drawing on Christian, Vedantic, Buddhist, and Sufi sources, near-death experience research, the Tibetan Bardo Thodol,...
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July 17, 2026
Wenjie Liu, Tian Yuan, Li Wang et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly restructured daily life, significantly impacting mental health. This negative event has been reported to alter subjective experience of time, such as the blending of days, reflecting distortions in long-term time perception over relatively coarse scales. However, the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on short-term time perception over fine scales has...
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July 17, 2026
Hasan Niazi
This preprint introduces the Resonance Of Closed Neural Network Geometry (RCNNG) hypothesis, a theoretical model proposing that perception and conscious experience arise from resonance within closed geometrical structures formed in adaptive neural networks. The hypothesis suggests that repeated frequency‑based stimulation can generate stable closed attractors in neural activity, and that these...
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July 10, 2026
Mark Lemon
We propose a minimal ontological framework in which selection — theactualization of an element from a possibility space — is the soleprimitive. From this postulate, a recursively grown selection graph anda local coherence measure kappa induce temporal partial ordering,identity as basin stabilization, and the subject-object distinction asan internal basin partition. Description is selection;...