Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Han Lin
preprint
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
preprint
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
preprint
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
preprint
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
preprint
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
preprint
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...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
September 5, 2026
Abstract: Mindfulness has established psychological benefits, such as stress reduction and emotional regulation; however, the underlying computational mechanisms, particularly in relation to mind-wandering, remain unclear. This study aimed to present a hierarchical recurrent neural network-based agent model grounded in the free energy principle to explore these processes within the framework of...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
September 5, 2026
Rakesh Kumar Mahajan
The final, most advanced layer of Patanjali?s Ashtanga architecture addresses the master control system-the mind. Comprising Dharana (focused concentration), Dhyana (sustained meditation), and ultimately Samadhi (complete cognitive integration and absorption), these cognitive disciplines culminate in Chitta Vritti Nirodhah-the complete cessation of mental fluctuations. When the mind achieves...
September 5, 2026
Maurício Viotti Daker
BACKGROUND: The schizoidism-syntony dyad offers a good start for a comprehensive view of psychopathology. Rooted in schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness in Kretschmer's characterology, these concepts gained prominence, under Bleuler and Minkowski, as expressions of personal relational patterns to the environment. SUMMARY: It seems insightful, therefore, to compare the concepts to the...