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Michael Alvear preprint
Patients undergoing ketamine-or psychedelic-assisted therapy for cancer-related distress, treatment-resistant depression, or end-of-life existential fear frequently report experiences resembling death or near-death: a sense of leaving the body, encountering something transcendent, or having died and returned. This synthesis reviews peer-reviewed evidence on how often this occurs, why it may...
Samuel O'Neill
In correctional practice, as primarily informed and driven by the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) practice framework of Bonta and Andrews (2017), theoretical explanations of agency bear significance in their representation and consequent treatment of ‘criminal’ agents. Due to a state of ‘theoretical illiteracy’ however, this domain remains largely divorced from the insights offered by current...
Jalal Khawaldeh
This study intergrates DNA resonance codes, mirotubule oscillations, and astocyte-mediated biomagnetic fields into a unfied theoretical framework explaning consciousness as a macroscopic quantum phenomenon.
Mulat Tazebew preprint
The subjective experience of a unified, persistent self is among the most fundamental features of human consciousness, yet neuroscientific and philosophical inquiry increasingly suggests that this experience is a construction rather than a discovery. This paper advances a unified theoretical framework integrating predictive processing models of brain function with philosophical arguments for...
Takashi Kubo preprint
This paper introduces a revolutionary paradigm for consciousness studies by integrating Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR), Attention Schema Theory (AST), and Global Workspace Theory (GWT) through the Genesis-Integration Principle (GIP). Existing models lack comprehensive integration and experimental testability. GIP resolves these issues by...
Izak Tait, Benjamin Rode, Joshua Bensemann preprint
This paper operationalises Global Workspace Theory (GWT) into six testable markers (global availability, functional concurrency, coordinated selection, capacity limitation, persistence with controlled update, and goal-modulated arbitration) and applies them to contemporary large language model systems. We distinguish GWT-as-functional-architecture from GWT-as-consciousness-marker, adopting...
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Thomas Andrillon, Andrew M. Haun preprint
In their recent article, the unfolding argument, Doerig et al argue that a theory of consciousness cannot be based in the characterization of the physical structure of the brain. They argue that such theories must be “either false or outside the realm of science”. Instead, they prefer theories of consciousness based only on “input-output” descriptions. By their implicit treatment of phenomenal...
Marco Ruggiero preprint
I propose to incorporate the concepts of brain microbiota and microbial consciousness in the Orch OR theory of human consciousness with the goal of increasing its explanatory and predictive powers. If consciousness arises from quantum computations in cytoskeletal structures inside human neurons, there is no theoretical impediment at hypothesizing that it might also occur in the cytoskeletal...
Vladimir Bondarev preprint
Attempts to reduce consciousness to notions of quantum mechanics lead to quantum theories of consciousness that are unlikely to be successful. The main drawback of these theories is that they consider reality, which is studied by quantum mechanics, as the cause of consciousness a priori. The paper shows that this reality exists only in one's mind and is the product, not the cause, of...
Zhigang Sha, Rulin Xiu
All observations are fundamentally rooted in consciousness. In this paper, we embark on an exploration to gain insights and even derivations about natural laws and phenomena by delving into the basic constituents of consciousness. We propose that the basic constituents of consciousness consist of two pairs of duality consciousness: change-unchange duality consciousness and inclusion-exclusion...