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Rajiv Singh
Consciousness appears so mysterious and hard to formulate within the physical sciences because present-day scientific thinking excludes an element of reality and a general mechanics of its processing from its consideration. The primary missing element is the reality of information in the physical universe as an intrinsic causal correlate of observable physical states. Moreover, there exists a...
Ashkan Farhadi preprint
Almost 70 years ago, Alan Turing predicted that within half a century, computers would possess processing capabilities sufficient to fool interrogators into believing they were communicating with a human. While his prediction materialized slightly later than anticipated, he also foresaw a critical limitation: machines might never become the subject of their own thoughts, suggesting that...
Vinitha Ganesan, Priyam Singh, Ritu Aneja et al. preprint
Rhythmic breathwork rooted in yogic tradition has been associated with stress reduction, partly through modulation of autonomic balance via increased parasympathetic vagal activity. However, the integrated psycho-neuro-immune mechanisms through which these autonomic shifts translate into downstream immune and molecular changes remain incompletely characterized. We conducted a pilot randomized...
Ayumi Ikeda, Takahiro Kawabe preprint
When external sensory input is reduced, perceptual experience may become more dependent on internally generated information, bodily signals, and prior expectations. Sensory deprivation therefore provides a useful context for examining how people perceive changes in the surrounding environment when ordinary exteroceptive evidence is unavailable. The present study investigated whether...
Muhammad Sudais preprint
Abstract Sleep paralysis is a state of consciousness experienced while waking from sleep or falling asleep. It is characterized by an experience of being unable to move for several seconds or minutes. Sleep paralysis entails a period of paralysis upon waking or falling asleep and is often accompanied by terrifying hallucinations. Many stressful environmental factors which cause emotional stress...
Pouria Javaheri
Generative world models enable robotic agents to "dream" potential futures for planning. However, modeling rigid-body dynamics in high-dimensional compressed latent spaces (such as NVIDIA Cosmos) presents significant challenges. Standard deterministic approaches often suffer from conditional mean averaging (often visually mistaken for posterior collapse), resulting in blurry predictions, while...
Rex Igwe, Divine Allen, Goodness Nwanna preprint
Abstract Consciousness arises from coordinated neural network activity but is exquisitely sensitive to molecular perturbations, such as those induced by anesthetic agents. Predicting how molecular-level pharmacology propagates through networks to produce EEG-level signatures remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Here, we introduce a fractional-order neural field model that rigorously...
Richard Bakiaj, Clara Isabel Pantoja Muñoz, Alessandro Grecucci
The neural foundations of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—remain largely unexplored despite their profound impact on social behavior. Previous research has indicated potential structural and functional alterations in the default mode network (DMN) and reward-related regions in individuals exhibiting high levels of DT traits. However, these...
Ashley X. Zhou, John Duncan, Daniel J Mitchell preprint
Abstract Recent findings challenge traditional views of the Default Mode Network (DMN) as purely task-negative or self-oriented, showing increased DMN activity during demanding switches between externally-focused tasks (Crittenden et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2018; Zhou et al., 2024). However, it is unclear what modulates the DMN at switches, with transitions within a stimulus domain activating...
Garam Jeong, Marco Paolini preprint
Abstract The default mode network is a brain network processing mental states featuring an internal representation of subjective experiences like autobiographical episodic memory retrieval and a resting state. If the default mode network is the common spatial domain processing such mental states, then the temporal domain might present the differences in the mental states. To detect adaptations...