DB Mitchell
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We present the Quantum-Conscious Nexus (QCN), a theoretical framework proposing a fundamental reinterpretation of the relationship between consciousness, quantum mechanics, and the nature of reality, centrally driven by the Free Energy Principle (FEP). The QCN posits a pre-geometric substrate of reality, the "Quantum-Conscious Nexus," envisioned as a dynamic, large-scale tensor network whose...
Volodymyr Kolyada
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There are many pathological and non-pathological conditions that can help to bring the explanation of general characteristics and the dynamic of consciousness awareness and its components. In this account, the theoretical frameworks of selection, comparison and completeness, attached to a higher cognitive processes in a human brain, was explored. With the admission of composed...
Sergey B. Yurchenko
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Since its first formulation the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) has recently been updated to the version 4.0. Unlike the previous versions where the problem of free will was completely neglected, IIT 4.0 claims to suggest a full neuroscientific account of this oldest problem in the philosophy of mind. The aim of this opinion paper is to show that IIT’s account of free will is apparently...
Níall Lambkin
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This paper examines the ethical and phenomenological consequences of creating conscious beings through bioengineering or artificial intelligence. Through philosophical fiction, it argues that functionalist approaches to consciousness engineering—focusing solely on cognitive performance—neglect essential existential structures required for conscious flourishing. The narrative centres on Ksora...
Herbert W Harris
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The hard problem of consciousness continues to divide philosophy and science. Rather than attempting to dissolve, reduce, or eliminate phenomenal experience, this paper proposes a methodological bracketing of consciousness itself. By performing an "epoché of consciousness," analogous to Husserl's phenomenological reduction, we set aside the question of why experience feels like anything at all...
Y Liu
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With increasing pace, life is becoming more and more stressful in human society, bringing lots of hardships and problems from family life, workplace, education and affairs. However, if the ability to tackle a challenge or deal with an issue is not sufficient, then one might bear different levels of stress. A mental health disorder could occur if such levels are not handled properly. With...
Mason Kissell
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Scientific advances have transformed our understanding of the brain, revealing the neural processes underlying perception, memory, and decision-making with increasing detail. Yet a complete explanation of consciousness remains elusive. While neuroscience can identify the mechanisms and correlates associated with conscious states, it does not explain why those processes are accompanied by...
Henry Arellano-Peña
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Contemporary theories of consciousness are fractured between three incompatible ontologies. Quantum proposals such as Penrose--Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch–OR) treat conscious episodes as gravitationally induced state reductions in tubulin superpositions. Harmonic-field models describe consciousness as a macroscopic interference pattern in a continuous field over the...
Bruno Abbondanza
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Nonordinary experiences of consciousness, including out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, mystical states, psychedelic experiences, and profound alterations of self-experience, are often interpreted through neuropsychological and psychiatric categories such as hallucination, dissociation, perceptual alteration, or brain anomaly. Such categories are clinically necessary when the...
Moninder Singh Modgil, Dnyandeo Dattatray Patil
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We model conscient entities as vertices of a Graph; and its edges, as the interaction between the them. We further introduce a two-layer multiplex network structure coupling the micro-level soul graph with a macro-level nation graph, enabling the study of how individual interactions aggregate to shape inter-nation relationships, and conversely, how geopolitical events influence individual...