arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar et al.
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Awakening is reported across contemplative traditions yet remains poorly defined in science, where it is often conflated with transient states induced by meditation or psychedelics, obscuring its significance for theories of consciousness and cognitive architecture. We treat awakening as a functional construct capturing convergence across Hindu and Buddhist sources, phenomenological and...
Journal of Veterans Studies
October 13, 2026
Natalie Danielle Baker, Zeno E. Franco
This paper reimagines veteran identity through an alchemical and posthuman lens, positioning the warrior’s return as a threshold condition, suspended between military and civilian worlds. Founded on more than a decade of community-based research with veteran peer mentors, we introduce generative AI as a daimonic analytic witness within a liminal epistemology, where threshold consciousness...
Tanzil Jurnal Studi Al-Quran
October 13, 2026
Wildanul Kholis Alhadi, Ikhwan Arfa' Bimantoro, Winka Ghazi Nafi et al.
The increasing prevalence of anxiety and psychological distress in the post-pandemic era has intensified interest in spiritual and religious sources of mental tranquility. Although previous studies have discussed the psychological and spiritual benefits of dhikr, the relationship between the Qur’anic concept of tranquility and its cognitive-neuroscientific mechanisms remains insufficiently...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Adam Cupell
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Abstract Debate about artificial intelligence and consciousness has centered on one question: is AI conscious? At The Science of Consciousness conference (TSC 2026, San Diego), the prevailing answer was no, supported by substantial argument and data. This paper proposes that the question, however well answered, is not the most productive one. It offers a reframe first posed by the author at TSC...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
October 13, 2026
Jennifer Viegas
Neuroscientist and neurologist Michael N. Shadlen is a world leader in the neurobiology of decision-making, a field of study he helped establish. His research explores higher brain functions-memory retrieval, reasoning, and multitasking, among others-that he theorizes share underlying mechanisms. His work suggests that a holy grail of neuroscience-the "hard problem" of consciousness, or the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 13, 2026
Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko
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Center for Anticipation 2.0 is an independent research initiative founded by Sergey Antonovich Kravchenko, continuing the work of the original Center for Anticipation (2008–2018). The project investigates how possible futures are represented in human experience through dreams, intuition, premonitions, altered states of consciousness, and anticipatory processes. Particular attention is given to...
Figshare
October 13, 2026
Marika Iwashita
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Sense of ownership is defined as the feeling that a body part belongs to oneself. While altered states of consciousness have been extensively studied, their effects on bodily self-perception and susceptibility to perceptual illusions remain largely unexplored. This study investigated how psychedelic-like VR experience alters sense of ownership, using a tool “Oscilleditor” by Qualia Research...
Routledge eBooks
October 12, 2026
Julie S. Byrd
How do we do ecointerculturality, and what does it feel like to experience it? Part Two introduces ecotranslanguaging as the embodied practice through which ecointerculturality comes alive: a way of languaging that extends beyond human speech into the sensory, relational, and spiritual dimensions of a living, interrelated, communicative world. Drawing on nine interconnected theoretical...
OSF Preprints
October 12, 2026
Evan Richard Nolan
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A pilot coding instrument for turning free text first person reports of experience into structured, comparable data. The manual defines five dimensions, each with definitions, boundary cases and worked examples: vividness, world anchoring (internally generated versus externally anchored), agency, reality status at the time, and interpretive load (how much of a report asserts meaning or...
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
October 12, 2026
Madelyn Klebba
The organization of distributed neural activity remains one of the central challenges in computational neuroscience. Contemporary frameworks, including Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, entropy-based approaches, and electromagnetic field theories, have advanced our understanding of neural coordination but employ different mathematical descriptions of large-scale brain...