Revista Neurociências
August 11, 2026
Maria Fernanda Lucena Bezerra, Ian Onuki Monteiro
The television show Altered Carbon, based on Richard K. Morgan’s book, narrates a futuristic society in which it is possible to separate consciousness from the body, inserting it in an external stack. The popularization of this technology, common to almost all citizens, creates discussion about that society, where the identity is now dissociated from its material form. Here we discuss the...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 11, 2026
Ngo Cheung
Quantum approaches to consciousness remain controversial, partly because any putative quantum state in the brain is expected to decohere rapidly in a warm, hydrated, and noisy environment. The present manuscript does not attempt to solve that biological problem directly. Instead, it treats microtubule-related interpretation as a deliberately hypothetical analogy and asks a narrower Level-A...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 11, 2026
Andreu Ballús Santacana
The low-frequency resonome of the human brain, understood as the structured hierarchy of infra-slow, delta, and theta electromagnetic field organization across approximately 0.1–8 Hz, is central to large-scale neural coordination, state transitions, sleep-wake dynamics, predictive regulation, and conscious access. Existing theories explain many aspects of these phenomena through neuronal...
arXiv Preprint Archive
August 11, 2026
Matteo Grasso, Jeremiah Hendren, Giulio Tononi
preprint
To be conscious is to have an experience - not a collection of phenomenal atoms, but a structured whole composed of distinctions and the relations that bind them. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) identifies the essential properties of every experience (axioms), formulates them operationally as postulates that a substrate must satisfy, and unfolds the cause-effect power of the resulting...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
preprint
Zenodo Description This paper presents an integrated philosophical-psychological model based on four interconnected concepts: Karma and Result, Eligibility, Contentment, and Transformation of Consciousness. The paper proposes that the relationship between action and result should not be understood solely through linear time, but through a process of maturation. It distinguishes between...
International Journal of Whole Person Care
August 9, 2026
Houman Farzin
This presentation will review the history of scientific research into the use of psychedelic medicines for the treatment of existential distress due to life-threatening illnesses, it will then outline the current state of affairs in North America, and conclude with exploring the implications it will have on the future of palliative care. Despite the significant advances in the field of...
PsyArXiv
August 8, 2026
preprint
Neuronal criticality as a framework for the computational neurophenomenology of advanced meditation
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 8, 2026
Nigel D’sa
preprint
Human spaceflight has been evaluated largely through physiological endurance and operational success. A more fundamental question has gone untested: whether cognition remains viable when the environmental conditions that have always accompanied human life are radically altered. This article argues, from ecological-enactive theories of cognition, that human cognition is constituted through...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 7, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Transcendent experiences are episodes in which the ordinary sense of being a bounded self set over against a world becomes attenuated, reported from contemplative practice, spontaneous mystical episodes, aesthetic encounter, and psychedelic states. Their comparative study remains caught between perennialist claims of a shared essence and constructivist claims that shared descriptions are...
CNS Drugs
August 7, 2026
Chiranth Bhagavan, Olivia Carter, Glenn Nielsen et al.
BACKGROUND: Psychedelics exert widespread effects on brain activity, but their impact on motor function is unclear. This is clinically relevant given the emerging interest in psychedelic-assisted physical therapy for disorders of motor function. This study examined the feasibility and safety of administering movement tasks following low-to-moderate doses of psilocybin in healthy volunteers....