arXiv (Cornell University)
September 5, 2026
Carson Rodrigues
preprint
Dreaming and large language model hallucination are usually studied apart, one as biology and the other as engineering. We argue they are two expressions of a single computation: generative reconstruction from distributed memory under incomplete constraints. Neither the sleeping brain nor an autoregressive model retrieves stored records; both synthesize output by recombining learned...
International Journal of Advanced Research
August 31, 2026
Suhani Gupta
This essay explores time as both a scientific constant and a deeply subjective human experience. Drawing on the historical evolution of timekeeping, philosophical contributions from Plato, Aristotle, and Einstein, and the psychological phenomenon of time perception, the piece examines whether time is an objective, measurable reality or a construct generated by consciousness. It concludes by...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Nadji Belkheiri
preprint
This paper presents a theoretical-philosophical inquiry into the ontological status of dream consciousness. Addressing the explanatory gap between neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) and phenomenal experience, it critiques reductive physicalist accounts of dreaming. By utilizing veridical dream reports as limit-case thought experiments and adopting a stratified approach to empirical data,...
European Journal of Education and Counselling
August 28, 2026
Sümeyra Yakar, Meryem Karaaziz
This study aims to comparatively examine the concept of self within the framework of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology and Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi's Sufi understanding. The self, central to human existence, is considered a fundamental element in both approaches as a key component of the individual's inner transformation process. In Jung's theory, the self is defined as a psychological...
The Journal of Value Inquiry
August 28, 2026
Kyle York, Merily Salura
Abstract Dreams can be aesthetically valuable in many ways. They can provide opportunities for aesthetically rich experiences of agency and action, placing the dreamer into novel situations and taking her out of her usual network of motivations, commitments, and goals. Dreams can also feature unique ambiences and evoke awe both regarding their content and regarding consciousness itself....
Annual report
August 27, 2026
Tyrus Miller
Sleep, Idleness, and the Passages between Surrealism and the ReadymadeThe Lining of SleepIn his "Manifesto of Surrealism," published in 1924, André Breton posed the question whether the apparent intermittence of the thoughts of dreamconsciousness might not be equally true of waking consciousness, or whether, indeed, waking-consciousness should not be considered a "phenomenon of interference"...
Neophilologica
August 26, 2026
Anna Kuncy-Zając
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of movement in the conceptualizations of some altered states of consciousness, such as: sleeping (sonno), dreaming (sogno), meditation (meditazione) and hypnosis (ipnosi) in the Italian language. The research presented is based on the following theories: thematic proto-roles by D. Dowty (1991) and Kinesthetic Image Schemas by G. L akoff (1987),...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Juza Minamikata
preprint
Consciousness research contains several distinct transfer problems: from reports or neural signals to target states, from target states to consciousness classifications, from coarse to fine grains, and from shared classifications to claims of common underlying structure. This paper argues that these problems instantiate a single methodological restriction, the Non-Inheritance Principle: warrant...
Voice of History
August 25, 2026
Ram Kumar Rai
Shamanism generally refers to indigenous ritual systems involving relationships between humans and spiritual or non-human realms, often associated with healing, spirit mediation, trance, and altered states of consciousness. In the Khambu worldview of eastern Nepal, Dowang refers to an indigenous ritual institution associated with ancestral calling, sacred knowledge, and the transmission of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Metin Doğan
preprint
The Dream-Mediated Awakening Hypothesis (DMAH) is a conceptual and testable hypothesis concerning the transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness. DMAH proposes that every successful transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness may involve a transient state of subjective, internally generated experience immediately before or during awakening. This experience need not take the form of a...