Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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Meditation research has measured isolated physiological channels for decades, but the set of peripheral signs has rarely been treated as a field — a totality whose inter-channel dependency structure is itself the observable. We tested whether a guided meditation session moves the integrated peripheral field, or only the individual signs, in the public WESAD dataset (15 subjects; within-subject...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Hongsheng Liu
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The inverted spectrum paradox is a classic thought experiment in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, which focuses on the subjective qualitative difference of color perception without explicit behavioral abnormalities. This paper systematically sorts out the connotation, logical architecture and philosophical controversy of the inverted spectrum hypothesis, distinguishes the pure...
Open Science Framework
September 7, 2026
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如果一项技术能给你"永生"，条件是你接受全脑扫描、然后肉体被销毁——你会按下那个按钮吗？ 本文主张，多数人对这个问题的本能退缩完全理性：扫描—摧毁不是生命的延续，而是**以永生之名进行的自我消灭**，它用一个复制品替换了原本。 本文首先区分三种常被混为一谈的操作：**非破坏性复制**、**破坏性扫描—摧毁**、**裂变**。非破坏性复制摧毁的是**唯一性**而非原我，后两者则杀死原我。这个区分之所以要紧，是因为"多份共存"通常被当作同一个谜题，而三种情形的判决并不相同。 接着是两组论证。其一，**信息同一不是数的同一**：同卵双胞胎共享全部基因，克隆体的核 DNA...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Han Lin
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This paper examines the nature of subjective consciousness through three empirical entry points: the subjective blankness of the pre-natal state, the temporary cessation of consciousness in dreamless sleep, and the extreme case of language deprivation in Genie Wiley. It first reconstructs the Lucretian symmetry argument, contending that the fear of death is rooted in the instinctive attachment...
OSF Preprints
September 6, 2026
Richard James Lucido
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This study builds upon previous experiments testing the Consciousness Causes Collapse (CCC) hypothesis. Previous studies by the author investigated the CCC using subliminal priming. This current experiment simplifies the paradigm by removing primes entirely and focusing directly on the temporal duration of wavefunction collapse. We hypothesize that consciousness is discrete and operates in...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Experience is ordinarily analysed in terms of what appears in consciousness — thoughts, emotions, relationships, roles, identities — and its hedonic tone. Little attention is given to the temporal phase a phenomenon occupies, or to the fact that each phase elicits a distinctive psychological vulnerability. This paper proposes a fourfold phenomenological framework: emergence, abiding,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Marco Gericke
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The mind–body problem is often framed as a choice between substance dualism and the reduction of mind to brain activity. This paper argues that physics can contribute more precisely by separating two transitions that are commonly conflated: from matter to a physically situated observer, and from observer to phenomenal subject. The first may be amenable to physical and information-theoretic...
Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience
September 6, 2026
Christopher R. King
This review examines a unified naturalism or theories of everything that include both the natural universe and subjective consciousness, by applying two critical filters to theories of existence, including those surveyed in Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s (2024) “Landscape of Consciousness”, hereinafter referred to as LoC: (1) The No Supervenience (NS) theorem, which asserts that subjective...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Stephen E. Dinehart
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This theoretical white paper develops the Fabulator Ludus hypothesis: conscious modeling develops, and may evolve, through recursive cycles of play and its observance. Play generates structured variation under recoverable conditions; observance enables acquisition from another organism’s actions and consequences without duplicating every original cost. Fabulation transmits models, action tests...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Arjun Sharma Associate Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Delhi New Delhi India
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Abstract: The remarkable progress of artificial intelligence has revived one of philosophy's oldest questions: what makes human beings unique? Contemporary AI systems can generate language, solve complex problems, produce images, imitate emotional communication, and participate in activities traditionally associated with intelligence and creativity. These capabilities have encouraged public...