Brain dynamics exhibit scale-dependent reversibility during consciousness transitions
bioRxiv August 18, 2026 preprint
Brain dynamics exhibit scale-dependent reversibility during consciousness transitions
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Are Attributions of Consciousness to AI Chatbots Epistemically Innocent?
Minds and Machines August 18, 2026 Uwe Peters
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) can communicate in strikingly humanlike ways. This has prompted many chatbot users to attribute psychological properties, including consciousness, to these systems. However, there is little scientific evidence that current AI chatbots are conscious. How, then, should we understand people’s consciousness attributions to chatbots? Are...
Dreaming Itself: Diffusion Models as the Structural Substrate for Self-Awareness in Humanoid Robots
ALIFE 2026: Proceedings of the 2026 Artificial Life Conference August 17, 2026 Xining Li
We argue that diffusion-based action models provide the structural prerequisites for minimal self-awareness in humanoid robots in a way that standard reactive feedforward policies do not. Three major theories of self-awareness—Friston’s Free Energy Principle (Friston, 2010), Metzinger’s Phenomenal Self-Model Theory (Metzinger, 2003), and Damasio’s two-level self (Damasio,...
THE LAST U-TURN — AI, Transhumanism, and the Choice to Remain Human
August 17, 2026 Syed Raheel Shahzad
THE LAST U-TURN is Book Five and the closing volume of The Architect's Protocol. It brings the series from truth, power, morality and metaphysical authorship to the human being in the machine age. Its central question is not whether artificial intelligence will become more capable. It is whether growing capability will be mistaken for consciousness, personhood, moral authority or a licence to...
Basic symptoms of psychosis-from historical foundations to current evidence.
Neuropsychiatrie August 17, 2026 Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Christian Theisen, Tri Kurniati Ambarini et al.
Psychoses are among the most debilitating mental disorders, making early detection a major public health priority. In extension of the ultra-high-risk (UHR) approach, which was developed to identify an imminent risk of psychosis, the basic symptom (BS) approach aims for the earliest possible detection of the developing disorder; it is increasingly used worldwide. Basic symptoms are subtle,...
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Before a Marker Becomes a Mechanism Adversarial Synthetic Falsification of Dynamical Signatures in Consciousness Research, with Implications for Causal Stress Testing
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 17, 2026 Karel Hrubec preprint
Before a Marker Becomes a Mechanism develops an adversarial synthetic falsification framework for evaluating dynamical markers in consciousness research before they are granted strong mechanistic interpretation. The study emerged from the progressive failure of its own candidate mechanism. An initial three-step causal-closure metric failed to capture longer directed loops. A generalized...
Guía de técnicas de Mindfulness creativo para la regulación de niños
Revista de Investigación Educativa Niveles. August 17, 2026 Jhennifer Mariela Naula Guaman, Estefany Aracely Guaman Llivisupa, Paco Fernando Janeta Patiño
La presente investigación analiza la contribución de una guía de técnicas de mindfulness creativo en la regulación emocional de estudiantes de quinto grado de Educación General Básica de la U. E. Fe y Alegría, ubicada en el cantón Quero. Desarrollada bajo un enfoque cuantitativo, alcance descriptivo, investigación de campo, diseño cuasiexperimental y corte transversal, la población estuvo...
Illusion of Conscious AI (ICAI) Framework: A Theoretical Framework for Distinguishing Artificial Information Processing from First-Person Subjective Experience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 17, 2026 Satya P. Dubey preprint
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised a foundational question in contemporary cognitive science: can an artificial information-processing system become genuinely conscious? The Illusion of Conscious AI (ICAI) Framework challenges the inference that increasingly sophisticated information processing, intelligence, language generation, self-modeling, behavioural competence,...
Sensory processing reallocation from auditory to cardiac signals in REM sleep.
Current Biology August 17, 2026 Jacinthe Cataldi, Andria Pelentritou, Sophie Schwartz et al.
The brain continuously integrates information from the external environment (exteroception) and the internal bodily milieu (interoception). However, how the balance between these two processing streams shifts across vigilance states with differing levels of environmental responsiveness remains poorly understood. Here, we examined neural responses to external auditory and internal cardiac...
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The Role of Yoganidra in the Management of Stress among University Going Students
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) August 17, 2026 Anshu Jangid, Priyanka Kumari
Stress among university going students has become a major psychological and public health concern due to academic workload, social adjustment difficulties, competitive environments, emotional instability, and uncertainty regarding future careers. Persistent stress negatively affects mental health, emotional well-being, academic performance, sleep quality, and overall quality of life among...