Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Kwan Hong Tan
preprint
This thesis explores the concept of authentic human existence within the context of a simulated reality. Drawing upon existential phenomenology, simulation theory, and empirical studies of virtual environments, it develops a novel theoretical framework of Embodied Authenticity. This framework posits that authenticity is not contingent upon the metaphysical nature of reality, but rather on the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Theories of consciousness that associate subjects with physical systems face an individuation problem in addition to the problem of assigning phenomenal structure: when several physical systems are plausible subject candidates, which one is the subject, and how is that subject tracked through physical change? We formulate this as a combined selection-and-tracking problem over physical state...
IECCMEXICO
September 28, 2026
Mauricio Quijano, Stalin Omar Toapanta Usuay, Valentina López Corredor et al.
Emerging synthetic drugs and new psychoactive substances represent a growing challenge for emergency medicine, clinical toxicology, and psychiatry due to their rapidly changing composition, variable potency, frequent polysubstance exposure, and capacity to produce overlapping toxicological syndromes. This study analyzed the clinical presentation, emergency stabilization strategies, and...
September 28, 2026
Shamil Chandaria, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Fernando E. Rosas et al.
The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a cacophony of competing theories that often talk past each other. Separating the hard problem from the mapping problem allows the deepest metaphysical disagreements to be set aside: granting that experience supervenes on a system's organisation, the...
Anubodhan
September 28, 2026
Ganesh Bhat
The paper undertakes a comparative philosophical study of the thought of René Descartes and Adi Shankaracharya, centring on the thematic convergence between the Cartesian dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" and the Vedāntic mahāvākya "Tat Tvam Asi", "Aham Brahmasmi", etc. Beginning with Descartes' method of methodological scepticism as articulated in Meditations on First Philosophy, the study highlights...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 28, 2026
Christian Mattias Palla
preprint
Abstract This essay examines the scope of John Searle's Chinese room argument in light of trained neural networks and large language models. Its central claim is that the argument alone does not justify ruling out artificial understanding in general, and that assessments of phenomenal consciousness require further argument. Searle aims to show that program instantiation is not, by itself,...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
September 27, 2026
Luis De Miranda
A woman's chronic pain is controlled to a stable score, yet her sleep, her work, her singing, and her partnership have narrowed around her condition. Each clinical decision was defensible; what failed is the existential composition around them. This article proposes eudynamia as the concept bioethics lacks: the distributed activity through which possibilities are composed across the conditions...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
德猛 杨
preprint
The question whether generative artificial intelligence is conscious is usually framed as a dispute between functionalism and the theory of inner experience. Rather than following this path of external adjudication, this paper returns to Hegel's account of the "experience of consciousness" and his theory of recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit, and reformulates the question: not "does...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Shahin Siami
preprint
This paper presents an information-processing framework for examining consciousness across biological and artificial substrates. It treats humans and artificial intelligence as information-processing systems implemented on different physical substrates and evaluates claims using methodological naturalism, testability, consistency with established knowledge, and parsimony. The paper examines the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness increasingly appeal to intrinsic causal organization, counterfactual structure, or relational phenomenal structure. Yet a prior question remains insufficiently separated from these proposals: **which realized physical processes are eligible to contribute to the organization of a present experience at a particular episode?** We introduce a token-level...