Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Vladimir Yakunin
preprint
This document describes agents, and consciousness-like organization as a further special case,through their latent spaces. A system has a latent space Z: a compressed description of the stateof the world, of its carrier, and of its own computation. A latent is always a description of somesubsystem of an underlying substrate at some scale. It is not a primitive object and it is not assumedto be...
Psychopathology
October 15, 2026
Luís Madeira, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Giovanni Stanghellini
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and psychopathy may resemble one another at the behavioural surface. All three may involve social difficulties, flattened or atypical affect, unusual communication, interpersonal friction, and impaired social adaptation. Yet their experiential architectures differ in ways that are clinically decisive for differential diagnosis, risk...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Touraj Banirostam
preprint
This preprint introduces Mind Concepts, a conceptual mapping project that examines key ideas in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Its central aim is to clarify how closely related concepts differ, how they connect, and why these distinctions matter for understanding both human cognition and artificial systems. Using an analytical conceptual mapping approach,...
Open Book Publishers
October 14, 2026
Last Name
The poetry of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge explores the correspondences between human perception and the rhythms of elements that make up the cosmos, stretching in scale from the shape of specific molecules that plants may use to communicate to the astrophysics of stars. My reading of Berssenbrugge’s poetry is situated at the lower end of this range of scales, focusing on how Berssenbrugge envisions...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
October 14, 2026
Jing He, Shaun Gallagher
Abstract Contemporary phenomenology and cognitive science have increasingly converged on the idea that social understanding is embodied, interactive, and enacted in real-time engagement. Interaction theory and enactivism have challenged cognitivist models of social cognition by emphasizing direct perception, affective attunement, and participatory sense-making. Yet while current interactive...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar et al.
preprint
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...
October 13, 2026
T. Dhar
Cosmological Influence on the Development of Human Consciousness explores how humanity’s observation and interpretation of the cosmos shaped thought, culture, religion, governance and the understanding of human existence across civilizations. Moving from the astronomical awareness of prehistoric communities to the cosmological traditions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Mesoamerica, Greece...
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
preprint
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...