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March 5, 2026 Joram Beda
This chapter explores a simple but provocative idea: What if “information” is not just what we write down about the world but part of the world’s load-bearing architecture? We begin with consciousness as lived fact—how it feels to be aware—and set that alongside scientific accounts, from global workspace theory and integrated information theory to carefully framed quantum proposals. We then...
March 5, 2026 Joram Beda
Consciousness is framed here not as a ghost in matter but as what information feels like when it organises itself into a tightly integrated, time-bound whole. Across biology and computation, new capacities emerge when relations, not parts, do the work: protein folding, flocking rules, and multilayer networks show how pattern breeds function. We extend this to experience: qualia are semantic...
March 5, 2026 G. William Domhoff
This chapter is similar to Chapter 5 in that it provides the first synthesis of the various neurophysiological and neuroimaging findings concerning the nature of the arousal process that leads to the morning awakening. It uses the neuroimaging studies to show that very specific networks lead to the almost instantaneous return of consciousness, but people nonetheless feel groggy and often are...
On_Culture March 5, 2026 Julian Asbaeck
This contribution offers a literary approach to extended cognition and asks in which capacity interactions with the nonhuman come to shape cognitive development. Specifically, this question is posed in regards to our active use of nonhuman instruments that are recognized as a reflection of social practices that mediate our engagement with the world. In this sense, the fictional journal entries...
COGNITIONIS Scientific Journal March 5, 2026 Rômulo Terminelis da Silva, Luana Flores de Oliveira
Introdução: A interface entre espiritualidade e neurociência tem se consolidado como campo transdisciplinar capaz de iluminar processos de autoconsciência, autorreferência e produção de sentido, sem reduzir a experiência humana a localizações cerebrais isoladas. Objetivo: Analisar, por meio de revisão bibliográfica integrativa, como redes neurais associadas ao self e à cognição social sustentam...
Preprints.org March 5, 2026 Kyrylo Somkin preprint
This paper proposes a neurophilosophical conceptual model of human consciousness structured as two functional brain states: the personal mode and the meta-reflective mode. The personal mode is defined as a motivationally and socially embedded configuration of neural processes oriented toward adaptation, identity maintenance, and ego-relevant concerns. The meta-reflective mode is characterized...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University) March 4, 2026 Mauro Ferraresi
Abstract The aim of this article is to show how a shift toward a conception of consciousness as an embodied and mediated relation makes it possible to reframe the problem of consciousness in terms of experience, action, and the production of meaning within social and socio-technical worlds. Starting from a simple heuristic scenario, a child playing with a ball, the article outlines the main...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 3, 2026 Sai H Saranu preprint
Time feels different depending on your mental state. It compresses when you're in the zone, stretches on psychedelics, and disappears completely under anesthesia. These distortions are well documented in neuroscience, but the major theories of consciousness don't generate quantitative predictions about them. This paper presents a formal framework that attempts to. It proposes that consciousness...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 3, 2026 Boris Kriger preprint
This paper develops a unified framework addressing the evidential foundations and dynamical structure of consciousness science through three co-equal pillars. The epistemological pillar presents a formal Bayesian argument (Theorem 2.3) demonstrating that first-person subjective reports, neural correlates, and all other functionally determined observations carry a likelihood ratio of exactly one...
Scientific Reports March 3, 2026 Wenbo Li, Tianxing Liu, Chao Sun
Interoceptive dysfunction represents a critical therapeutic target across multiple health domains. Contemporary interventions demonstrate limitations in efficacy and specificity, while traditional mind-body practices present empirically underexplored yet theoretically promising alternatives. This investigation systematically evaluates the psychophysiological effects of Hunyuan Zhuang, a Chinese...