bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 20, 2026
Atakan Selte, Steven E. Haworth, Thomas J. Vanasse et al.
preprint
Abstract Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Using overnight 256-electrode high-density EEG in 140 participants and a serial-awakening paradigm, we analyzed 699 non-rapid eye...
Review of International American Studies
August 20, 2026
Navdeep Kahol
The novella Pale Horse, Pale Rider, authored by Katherine Anne Porter and published in 1939, is set against the backdrop of the 1918–1919 Spanish flu pandemic towards the end of World War I. It narrates the dual story of individual and societal trauma and survival amidst the pandemic, contributing to the cultural memory of that era in American history. The narrative draws heavily on...
ALIFE 2026: Proceedings of the 2026 Artificial Life Conference
August 17, 2026
Xining Li
We argue that diffusion-based action models provide the structural prerequisites for minimal self-awareness in humanoid robots in a way that standard reactive feedforward policies do not. Three major theories of self-awareness—Friston’s Free Energy Principle (Friston, 2010), Metzinger’s Phenomenal Self-Model Theory (Metzinger, 2003), and Damasio’s two-level self (Damasio,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Alison Jane King, Darryl Gray
preprint
This manuscript develops the Principle of Structural Dependence (PSD) as a general organisational constraint for theories and empirical models of awareness and cognitive capacities. PSD proposes that measurable differences in a capacity require corresponding differences in the organisation relevant to supporting that capacity. The principle is deliberately modest: it does not specify what...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Nicolas de Warren
This essay examines dreaming as a challenge to the dichotomy between narrative and episodic conceptions of the self.Drawing on Sartre's phenomenology of the imaginary, it argues that dreams elude both accounts: dream consciousness is episodic and pre-reflective -reflective awareness that one is dreaming would annihilate the dream -yet dreams are experienced, on Sartre's insight, as "a story...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
August 10, 2026
Celia Ortega Goméz, José Luis Díaz Palencia
Abstract Analytical psychology and modern physics have opened windows to describe aspects (or even one single substance) of reality. The notions of archetypes and the collective unconscious suggest that dreams carry symbolic messages from the area of psychic potential, while quantum neuroscience posits that consciousness and brain activity may be influenced by quantum‐level phenomena beyond...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 5, 2026
Ahmed Drissi
preprint
وأهم هذه الدراسة وآلا إلى تحليل التشابه والاختلاف بين الهلوسة والحلم من منظور علم النفس وثورة الهند الإدراكية، من خلال التركيز على ثلاثة أبعاد هي: حالة الوعي، إسناد المصدر، والبنية الزمنية للتجربة. وظهرت الأدبيات العلمية أن الظاهرتين تتقاطعان في العلوم الحيوية الحسية والإحساس القويم بالواقعية، كما تشتركان في اعتمادهما على إنتاج المحتوى الإدراكي من خلال عزل عن جهاز الحسية المباشرة. غير أن...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 4, 2026
Conor H. Murray, Michael Angyus, Sam Suchin et al.
preprint
Abstract Altered states of consciousness (ASC) refer to states that differ markedly from normal waking consciousness. ASC may occur spontaneously, such as in dreaming, or through consciousness modifying techniques, from meditation, to cannabis and psychedelics. The etymology behind the term psychedelic, meaning mind-manifesting, is based on the hypothesis that certain substances, including...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
MD Hredoy Mesha
preprint
গবেষণার প্রেক্ষাপট ও লক্ষ্য: মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা ও আচরণগত পরিবর্তন বিষয়ক বিদ্যমান গবেষণার বিশাল অংশ পাশ্চাত্য দেশের হাসপাতাল ও হসপিস প্রেক্ষাপটে সীমাবদ্ধ। বিদ্যমান একাডেমিক গবেষণার পর্যালোচনা অনুযায়ী, বাংলাদেশের ধর্মীয় ও সামাজিক প্রেক্ষাপটে এই বিষয়ে কোনো গুণগত গবেষণা এখন পর্যন্ত প্রকাশিত হয়নি। এই গবেষণার লক্ষ্য হলো বাংলাদেশের সামাজিক ও ধর্মীয় প্রেক্ষাপটে মৃত্যুপূর্ব সচেতনতা কীভাবে প্রকাশ...
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
August 2026
Anat Tzur Mahalel
This essay explores the role of visual images in dream imagery as a space where unconscious processes intersect with historical forces. It offers a comparative reading in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and Benjamin's Arcades Project (1982). Freud conceptualizes dream images as condensed memory traces that navigate between perception and hallucination, revealing repressed desires....