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July 7, 2026
Tao Zhang (43681)
Building on the core presupposition of the Universal Causality-Spacetime PrimordialOntology (UCPO), this paper constructs a unified metaphysical thought-experimentalframework as the ontological grounding for research into experiential complexity. Itproposes that the three-dimensional world is a low-dimensional solidified phasearising from the primordial ontology’s inherent spontaneous...
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July 7, 2026
Tao Zhang (43681)
Long-standing disciplinary divides persist between contemporary philosophy of mind,evolutionary biology, and philosophy of technology as applied to life: the “hardproblem” of phenomenal consciousness resists integration into evolutionarydynamics; Heideggerian Being-towards-death remains confined to human subjectsand cannot be extended to cross-species or posthuman contexts; and research...
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July 7, 2026
Tao Zhang (43681)
Long-standing disciplinary divides persist between contemporary philosophy of mind,evolutionary biology, and philosophy of technology as applied to life: the “hardproblem” of phenomenal consciousness resists integration into evolutionarydynamics; Heideggerian Being-towards-death remains confined to human subjectsand cannot be extended to cross-species or posthuman contexts; and research...
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July 5, 2026
Andrey Potapov
This document constitutes a metaphysical manifesto with general-philosophical supplements. The concepts presented in the manifesto are set forth without proofs, or with only a minimal number of them. Logical coherence and the internal integrity of the system itself serve here as a form of justification. It is anticipated that this manifesto will be updated and expanded. This manifesto serves as...
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June 29, 2026
Mawuvi Amlima
The rapid emergence of Spirit-Tech has created new opportunities for exploring relationships between spirituality and technology. Existing approaches largely investigate how contemporary technologies may facilitate meditation, contemplative practice, consciousness exploration, and spiritual well-being. This paper introduces the Nzila Spirit-Tech Paradigm as a complementary and distinct...
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June 23, 2026
Elena Bray, Grant C. Glatfelter, Alexander D. Maitland et al.
The ongoing psychedelic renaissance has prompted a renewed search for novel drugs based on modifying existing psychedelic motifs. In this study, a synthesis of 4-bromo-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (4-Br-DMT) was achieved and used as a late-stage intermediate for analog development. Specifically, we were able to synthesize and access novel molecules by forming carbon–carbon bonds at the C4 position...
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June 21, 2026
Kevin Jon Berryman
Meditation and mindfulness are now used in almost every area of society, from schools and workplaces to hospitals, prisons, and wellbeing apps. Yet despite their widespread adoption, we still know little about the ethical impact these practices have on people. This thesis addresses that gap by examining how contemplative practices shape personal moral thought, emotion, and behaviour, and how...
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June 7, 2026
Xingrui Wang
Structural Neural Theory (SNT) proposes that consciousness is the very operation of the Loop—the self-referential feedback circuit formed by the PCC–mPFC/ACC–cingulum bundle. This paper systematically compares SNT with the four dominant contemporary theories of consciousness: Global Workspace Theory (GNWT), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Higher-Order Thought Theory (HOT), and Predictive...
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June 6, 2026
Changhong Yun
AbstractPredictive Processing (PP) is a dominant framework in contemporary cognitive science for explaining perception and attention. This paper argues that a foundational premise of PP — that the brain continuously predicts future states to organize perception — is false, due to both logical and physical impossibilities.Logically, accurately predicting the future state of a system that...
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June 4, 2026
Chan-Woo Yeom, Onyoo Kim, Jeong-A. Yu et al.
spinal cord injury (SCI) reduces quality of life and causes chronic inflammation. Mindfulness-based interventions may improve these symptoms. However, few studies have examined the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in individuals with SCI. This study evaluated a tailored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program. We conducted a non-randomized controlled trial at a national...
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June 2, 2026
Anna Cathrine Elizabeth Norton
Background Since their emergence in the early 2000s, Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists (SCRAs) have fast become part of the global drug landscape with its use often associated with homeless populations (Ralphs et al., 2017; Hutton, 2022; EUDA, 2024). Originally designed to mimic the effects of cannabis (Gray et al., 2016; Reuter and Pardo, 2017; Malaca et al., 2021), the current...
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May 26, 2026
Vladisav Jovanovic
AI seems awake because it performs the outer form of presence.This paper examines why large language models so easily appear to have inner life. The illusion does not come from one feature alone. It emerges from fluent language, emotional tone, memory-like continuity, conversational timing, apology, patience, responsiveness, safety-tuned behavior, and human projection.The paper distinguishes...
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May 26, 2026
Vladisav Jovanovic
Dreams are not hidden telegrams from the unconscious. They are pressure maps.This paper argues that dreams should be read as temporary simulations of how the psyche routes avoidance, desire, threat, shame, memory, relation, symbol, and possible repair. A dream matters when it shows the structure of a truth waking life has not yet found a way to carry.The paper places Structural Intelligence in...
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May 23, 2026
Vlad Tverdohleb
This paper presents the Ogdoadic Synthesis, a novel metaphysical framework that integrates dual-aspect cosmopsychism, quantum information theory, quantum biology, and perennial esoteric traditions. The core postulate is that the universe is a single, conscious field—the Fundamental Consciousness Field—and that individual minds are localized, dissociated apertures of this field, termed...
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May 19, 2026
R. Crawford Morris, Ayse Gundogan, Vanessa Lawrence et al.
Supplementary Material 1: Description of Additional File 1 Table 1: An overview of studies of psychedelics in eating disorders Table 2: Search strategy for the meta-synthesis Table 3: Quality appraisal of the included studies using the CASP checklist
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May 19, 2026
R. Crawford Morris, Ayse Gundogan, Vanessa Lawrence et al.
Supplementary Material 2: Description of Additional File 2 PRISMA checklist
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May 12, 2026
Poornachandra Upadhya
Dream Drifting, Resonance, and the Navigational Theory of ConsciousnessThis thought paper explores a speculative philosophical framework proposing that human consciousness may possess a tendency to “drift” during altered states such as dreams, meditation, trance states, lucid dreaming, and hypnagogic experiences.The paper introduces the concept of resonance-based consciousness navigation, where...
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May 8, 2026
Mukunda Rao Katta
Most public conversations about AI consciousness fix on the wrong question: 'is the model conscious?' That question collapses many separable theoretical commitments into one yes/no. This paper presents Chetana, a theory-indexed probe framework that does not pretend to detect consciousness. Instead, it scores model behaviour against the operational predictions of named consciousness theories —...
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April 25, 2026
Morten Magnusson
Modern science treats cosmology, consciousness, affect, ethics, and AI alignment as separate problems, each with its own unresolved core. This paper argues that these problems share a single thermodynamic substrate: local entropy minimization through coherent information flow, as formalized in the cognition module of Energy-Flow Cosmology (EFC-C).From this substrate, two constructs are derived:...
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April 14, 2026
Ngo Cheung
The hard problem of consciousness, together with the expectation that quantum states should decohere rapidly in the warm and noisy brain, has long challenged quantum approaches to mind, including the orchestrated objective reduction framework. Even so, recent reports of room-temperature superradiance and long-range energy migration in tryptophan networks within microtubules have kept open the...
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April 11, 2026
Ngo Cheung
How subjective experience arises from brain activity remains one of the central unsolved problems in neuroscience. Orchestrated objective reduction, or Orch-OR, proposes that consciousness may depend in part on quantum computation within neuronal microtubules, but this proposal has long been criticized on the grounds that the brain’s warm, wet environment should destroy such states almost...
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March 26, 2026
Futao Zhao
This paper proposes a unified theoretical framework of memory-based consciousness emergence, centered on the "Electric-Driven Consciousness and Memory-Carried by Motion" principle. We define the elemental consciousness intensity I Z , a computable physical quantity characterizing the baseline potential of elemental atoms to emerge consciousness from memory at 298 K, calculated via the Yin...
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March 22, 2026
Futao Zhao
This theory proposes a new unified framework of matter-consciousness, with the core argument that consciousness is the macroscopic emergence of the inherent memory properties of matter in specific complex structures, and carbon is the optimal physical carrier for realizing this emergence process in the universe. By establishing a continuous emergence chain from micro-particles to macroscopic...
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March 17, 2026
Haroon Asghar
A previous paper by the same author demonstrates that psychedelic medicines differ from intoxicants (khamr) as they do not induce moral impairment or “veil” rational faculties. While unsupervised should remain impermissible due to psychological risks, their therapeutic application may be justified under Islamic law through rukhsa (legal concession). Since psychedelics can mimic neural and...
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March 16, 2026
Fangshi Cao 曹方石
This preprint was submitted on 31 March 2026. The author confirms that the research content is authentic, accurate, and reliable. The author takes all legal and academic responsibility for content presented in this work.This paper presents a first-person qualitative case study of an individual with extraordinarily high dream recall frequency, sustained high‑narrative dreaming, and unconscious...