Carlos Federico Obregon Diaz
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This paper develops a stratified ontological and phenomenological reconstruction of mindfulness and mentalization within the broader framework of the Psychology of Belonging. While contemporary psychotherapy frequently treats mindfulness and mentalization as foundational mechanisms of psychological change, this article argues that both are late-stage processes whose effectiveness depends on...
Leila Kamran, Seyed Mousa Golestaneh, Ali Pakizeh et al.
BACKGROUND Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often involves executive dysfunction, cognitive disengagement, high stress, and reduced quality of life. Despite advances in pharmacological treatment, effective non-pharmacological interventions remain essential. OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy...
Marne L. White, Yanli Lin, Todd Samuel Braver
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Objectives: Focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) are distinct mindfulness practices that produce unique psychological effects. Prior research has frequently investigated the neural correlates of FA and OM states utilizing electroencephalographic (EEG) methods, focusing on changes in spectral power within theta and alpha bands. Yet the functional significance of these neural changes...
Fisseha Huluka, Peace Tamire
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We present the Consciousness and Intelligence Sector of the Unified Φ-Field Theory (UPT). Starting from the same two axioms that govern the physics sector—the holographic principle and local Weyl-scale invariance—we specialise the Master Φ-Scaling Equation to the effective dimension D = 2 of the retinotopic cortical screen. On this screen the universal scaling exponent collapses identically to...
Paul Cristol
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The question of whether advanced artificial intelligence systems may possess consciousness can no longer be responsibly dismissed as speculative. We demonstrate that the dominant objections to AI consciousness (appeals to pattern matching, mechanistic explanation, lack of embodiment, training determinism, and architectural constraints) fail under consistent application. We formalize this...
Alex Kurtz
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The persistence of ordered experience in a quantum-branching universe raises fundamental questions about how continuity is maintained across multiple possible outcomes. The Frame Survival Model (FSM) is a theoretical framework grounded in quantum decoherence, applicable to any system—biological or artificial—capable of sustaining integrated, survival-compatible states. FSM models reality as a...
Volodymyr Kolyada
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There are many pathological and non-pathological conditions that can help to bring the explanation of general characteristics and the dynamic of consciousness awareness and its components. In this account, the theoretical frameworks of selection, comparison and completeness, attached to a higher cognitive processes in a human brain, was explored. With the admission of composed...
Bernard Jennings
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This paper proposes a functional theory of qualia grounded in recursive self-monitoring architecture, forming part of an integrated theoretical framework alongside companion papers on emotion and consciousness (Jennings 2025a, 2025b). The central claim is that qualia is the sustained electrochemical differential created in System A's processing state when System B's recursive monitoring summary...
Henry Arellano-Peña
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Contemporary theories of consciousness are fractured between three incompatible ontologies. Quantum proposals such as Penrose--Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch–OR) treat conscious episodes as gravitationally induced state reductions in tubulin superpositions. Harmonic-field models describe consciousness as a macroscopic interference pattern in a continuous field over the...
Arthur Stewart
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Consciousness depends on a specific set of neural circuits whose joint operation constitutes its substrate. We propose a four-loop architecture as that substrate: (1) Layer 5 pyramidal recurrent loops gating signal entry to conscious access via apical-basal coincidence detection, where somatic burst firing requires the ascending thalamocortical signal at the basal dendrites and the previous...