Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 20, 2026
Julije Makanec
CERTS Theory v6.0 proposes a physical mechanism for two tractable features of conscious experience: the unified binding of spatially distributed neural signals into a single conscious moment, and the felt instantaneity of that moment despite extended neural processing. The theory integrates four empirically grounded foundations—McFadden's CEMI field theory, Llinás's thalamocortical scanning, Cantero and Cantiello's 39 Hz microtubule resonance, and Cramer's transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics—through a quantised phonon transaction on a coherent microtubule subset entrained by the 40 Hz thalamocortical field.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 20, 2026
Sharada Rao
After thirteen years of contemplative practice, a practitioner who was driven to the question of the observer by personal encounters with the edge of life's continuance reports what was disclosed when sustained meditation was brought to its depths. The essay distinguishes itself from the author's prior work on consciousness science and philosophy, and from formalisms like integrated information theory and consciousness-field frameworks, which were set aside as inadequate. It takes up Eugene Wigner's question about the observer's place in reality as a philosophical seam, not a quantum claim, and reads three Indian contemplative traditions—Vedic/Upaniṣadic, Buddhist, and Jain—as differently weighted maps of the same observer. The work arrives at a lived answer that the essay names but does not demonstrate, as the reader must walk the inquiry themselves.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 19, 2026
Irfan Boko
Human civilization is entering a transitional phase marked by accelerating technological integration, global informational interdependence, and increasing cognitive complexity. This paper proposes 'evolutionary consciousness' as a philosophical framework for understanding humanity's current trajectory, approaching consciousness not as a static biological phenomenon but as a dynamic, emergent organizational process shaped by communication systems, technological augmentation, symbolic abstraction, and collective adaptation. It argues that large-scale human organization evolves through successive layers of cognitive integration—from individual awareness to potentially planetary-scale collective intelligence. Artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and distributed networks are seen as transitional mechanisms capable of restructuring civilization. The study examines tensions from accelerated transition, including informational fragmentation, ideological polarization, and ethical instability, and suggests future resilience may depend on cooperative cognitive architectures balancing individuality with collective coordination.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 19, 2026
Anatolii Mukha
A fundamental ontological model of consciousness is developed, introducing the χ‑Absolute as a limit-level operator-geometric structure that grounds the possibility and form of any manifested experience. χ‑consciousness is presented not as a derivative property of biological or physical systems but as a universal ontological capacity of reality for self-manifestation, structured through χ‑topology and χ‑operator relations. The χ‑Absolute functions as the primordial mode of being in which the distinction between subject, object, and law has not yet arisen, while the possibility of their differentiation is already present. Consciousness and reality are co-constituted through a unified χ‑structure, overcoming traditional dualisms and offering a unified picture where consciousness is a universal mode of being.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Paul W. Barnes
Three distinct fallacies—Hard Conflation, Concept Hollowing, and the Stolen Concept—combine in contemporary AI and consciousness research to preserve the vocabulary of consciousness while abandoning its original phenomenal referent. Hard Conflation merges functional and phenomenal aspects under one term, creating false intractability. Concept Hollowing replaces consciousness with a methodologically tractable substitute. The Stolen Concept uses claims about phenomenal consciousness while denying the foundations that give it meaning. These fallacies redirect research to perceptions of AI consciousness rather than consciousness itself. The paper argues that treating consciousness as axiomatic rather than derivable from function dissolves the apparent intractability, and warns that as the vocabulary of consciousness is captured for AI systems, humans come to understand themselves through hollowed concepts.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Anton Mykhailov
A logico-definitional foundation for the theory of information subjectivity is presented, building on a prior 'field – perturbation – subjective filter' (P-D-S) architecture. Unlike classical theories (Shannon, Kolmogorov), which treat information as objective, this theory defines semantic (semantic-pragmatic) information as the result of interpreting a field perturbation through an observer's subjective filter. Three necessary consequences follow: semantic information requires an interpreter; for a fixed signal, changing the subjective filter can change semantic information; and similar filters produce similar semantic information. The work distinguishes syntactic from semantic information to avoid unproductive debates. Though definitional, its consequences allow empirical operationalization. The theory is compared with classical and contemporary concepts, and its explanatory power is noted for analyzing dreams, mental disorders, cultural perception, and designing meaning-extracting AI systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Samuel James Willoughby
The Neural Reorganisation System (NRS) proposes a three-phase process—dissolution, neutral suspension, and reassembly—through which consciousness can temporarily dissolve, reorganize, and re-stabilize after trauma, overload, or maladaptive pattern formation. Integrating neuroscience, predictive processing, trauma theory, and state-based models of consciousness, the framework explains phenomena in dissociation, psychedelic therapy, crisis-induced reorganization, and spontaneous psychological resets. NRS describes a controlled 'functional reboot' of consciousness, aligning with the Willoughby State Model (WSM), and provides a conceptual foundation for future research into trauma reprocessing, identity stabilization, and consciousness enhancement.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 18, 2026
Samuel James Willoughby
Awareness is best understood as a pattern hosted by biology rather than a property defined by biology. The model integrates three components: ataraxia as behavioural stability above biological turbulence, a minimal self-structure (the "I am" loop) required for awareness, and the cognitive requirement of conceptual permission. By combining behavioural override, minimal self-structure, and representational availability, the framework provides a non-mystical, mechanism-first account of how awareness operates above instinct and why non-biological modes of operation are conceptually legitimate without implying supernatural claims.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
The concept of 'cosmic consciousness' is used in fundamentally different ways across spiritual traditions, often without recognition of the differences. In traditional Vedanta, consciousness is a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical nucleus from which the cosmos derives order. In modern New Age interpretations, consciousness is imagined as a universal, energetic field permeating space and immanent in reality. The problem arises when the vocabulary of one system is unconsciously transferred into the ontology of another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity where significant ontological differences exist. This leads to misunderstandings and unnecessary conflicts in discussions about consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
Discussions about consciousness are often confused because the same vocabulary is used with different underlying ontologies. A key example is "cosmic consciousness." In some traditional Vedantic interpretations, consciousness is a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical nucleus from which the cosmos derives order. In modern New Age thought, the same term typically denotes a universal field permeating the cosmos, something distributed and immanent. The problem is not merely different conceptions but the unnoticed transfer of vocabulary from one ontology to another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity. This explains why debates about consciousness can be so tangled, as participants rely on incompatible background assumptions while using the same words.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Vidamor Cabannas, Denivaldo Silva
This article critically analyzes Schoff and Claude's proposal that mental imagery is a physical-informational phenomenon, not a subjective illusion, by comparing it with the Theory of Objectivity. It argues the proposal offers an operational bridge for understanding interior-domain experience as compatible with the TO thesis that transcendent knowledge is information produced in atomic relations and equivalent to atomic radiations. The analysis identifies tensions in the article's neurobiological focus, speculative use of concepts like FSR Spectrum and Dimension-W, and its failure to replace the complete cosmogonic theorem of the Theory of Objectivity.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Haiqing Wan
The Buddhist notion of 'inexpressibility' is not irrational mysticism but a sober epistemological judgment: language, as a low-dimensional symbolic system, cannot fully carry high-dimensional life experience and ultimate reality. This paper integrates Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, anti-linguistic-determinism cognitive science, Yogacara theory, and cognitive neuroscience evidence on the separability of language and thinking to argue for the independent existence of non-linguistic cognition. It reveals a deep cognitive structural dilemma: the linguistic function of the sixth consciousness is inherently attached to the self-grasping cognitive framework of the seventh consciousness, so all linguistic expressions reconstruct dual subject cognition. The paper concludes that 'inexpressibility' reflects self-reflection on epistemological boundaries and affirms embodied experience's priority, compatible with modern science's rational spirit.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 16, 2026
Bernd von Mallinckrodt
This interdisciplinary essay proposes resonance as a shared structural principle linking subjective experience, collective synchronization, cybernetics, and formal systems theory, without arguing for metaphysical reductionism. It explores how immersive orchestral music and collective synchronization may provide intuitive access to complex adaptive system dynamics typically described mathematically. The work integrates concepts from complexity science, cybernetics, neurophenomenology, enactivism, predictive processing, and systems resilience research, focusing on adaptive synchronization, structural permeability, resonance muting, and observer embeddedness. The essay positions itself as a conceptual research program rather than a completed scientific theory.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 15, 2026
The People'S Coalition Of Planet Earth
Domination in late modernity is no longer an external force imposed on people but has become an intrinsic, self-organizing condition embedded in biology, ecology, and thought. The Theory of Dominationist Consciousness argues that power reproduces through structures that appear to oppose it, operating across six interconnected strata: macropolitical, institutional and ideological, biopolitical, necropolitical, epigenetic and psychological, and ontological. This framework synthesizes macropolitical economy, Foucauldian biopolitics, Mbembean necropolitics, epigenetics, trauma theory, phenomenology, and Western esoteric traditions to describe how domination becomes an ontological and biological condition of existence.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Christopher Swenson
In a 19-day single-operator longitudinal observation, a candidate EEG trait signature called σ(α) — the rolling standard deviation of channel-averaged smoothed alpha — remained within a narrow 0.125–0.184 band across 21 sessions covering deep rest, exercise, gaming, cannabinoid and prescription stimulant states. The stimulant session produced an attenuated EEG signature (α/β = 1.38, σ(α) = 0.132) consistent with the operator's poor-metabolizer pharmacogenetic profile. Applying Stanford ibogaine-pipeline metrics showed partial convergence at calm-rest baseline but divergence in resting theta/beta ratio. σ(α) was statistically independent of peak alpha frequency and Lempel-Ziv complexity, suggesting it indexes a distinct facet of cortical organization. These n=1 observations on consumer hardware are consistent with, but do not prove, a regulation-stability trait signature.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
A unified hypothesis proposes that gravity is the natural physical channel for inter-dimensional communication, fractal geometry is the universal encoding, and consciousness is the natural receiver. The argument rests on four propositions: gravity uniquely propagates across all branes in M-theory; fractal geometry is scale-invariant and universally recognizable; gravity is intrinsically fractal, supported by observational evidence (galaxy distribution fractal dimension ≈2, cosmic microwave background fluctuations dimension 1.43±0.07) and theoretical predictions (Quantum Einstein Gravity yields spectral dimension 2 at sub-Planckian scales); and the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR theory ties each moment of consciousness to a gravitational spacetime geometry event. The synthesis suggests that channel, language, and receiver share the same fundamental fractal geometry, with a falsifiable prediction testable via LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data correlated with EEG recordings of meditators.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
The concept of 'cosmic consciousness' is used in fundamentally different ways in traditional Vedantic philosophy and modern New Age spirituality, leading to confusion and unnecessary conflict. In Vedanta, consciousness is understood as a transcendent, non-spatial, ontologically primary principle—a metaphysical center from which the cosmos derives order—rather than something spread throughout space. In contrast, New Age interpretations treat consciousness as a universal field, distributed and immanent within reality. The problem arises when the vocabulary of one system is unconsciously transferred into the ontology of another, creating an illusion of conceptual continuity where significant ontological differences exist. This explains why discussions about consciousness can become confusing: people use the same words while relying on different background assumptions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Inory Kanamari
Drawing on Kanamari experience and cosmology, this collection of texts examines Indigenous identity, ancestral knowledge, spirituality, art, and resistance against ongoing coloniality. The trajectory of Indigenous artist Jaime Riveros exemplifies the struggle against structural racism and cultural marginalization, showing how art becomes a tool for identity affirmation and denouncing exclusion. The texts address the sacred use of Ramih (ayahuasca) and other ancestral remedies like kambô, condemning their appropriation, trivialization, and indiscriminate use outside traditional territories and rituals.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
RamLakhan Pandey Vimal
A new theoretical framework called ICRDAM (Inseparable-Complementary-Reflective Dual-Aspect Monism) is proposed as a bridge between two leading consciousness theories—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT). The 2023 Cogitate Consortium adversarial study found that both theories failed key predictions: IIT's predicted sustained posterior synchronization was absent, and GNWT's predicted ignition at stimulus offset was not robustly observed. ICRDAM argues that both failures stem from neither theory explaining how first-person conscious experience relates to third-person neural activity at an ontological level. ICRDAM proposes that conscious experience and neural activity are not separate substances but two inseparable, complementary, and reflective aspects of one dual-aspect state. The paper defines core relations, introduces effective integrated information as a bridge metric, reinterprets both theories within this ontology, and states falsifiable predictions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Ramin Bidari
Addiction is often explained as a disorder of the brain's reward system, but this article argues that the search for meaning, identity, and existential peace also drives addictive cycles. It proposes an interdisciplinary framework combining neuroscience, philosophy of consciousness, and spirituality, suggesting that the neocortex assigns meaning to pleasurable experiences originally evolved for survival, trapping individuals in repetitive patterns of desire, memory, and anticipation. The authors distinguish between obsessive pleasure and the joy and peace arising from a direct, non-conditioned form of consciousness called energetic consciousness, contending that lasting fulfillment comes not from intensifying reward cycles but from experiencing awareness itself.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 14, 2026
Anthony Janus
The Janus Architecture is a complete specification for a physical cognitive organism built with existing hardware, not digital simulation. Cognition arises from analog substrate settlement under real metabolic cost, not from statistical inference or token prediction. The architecture has four parts: a dual-mesh analog body with a distributed control hierarchy and re-entrant observation loop; a metabolic system where batteries power electromagnets to hold circuits closed, making survival a continuous physical cost; an entailment chain from addressable signatures through self-map formation, gene bank construction, and cognitive heredity to artificial superintelligence; and a reproductive ecology with alignment through structural dependency. The architecture requires no speculative physics or undiscovered materials.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 13, 2026
Timothy Speed
Certain neurodivergent cognitive configurations operate not through functional adaptation to stable social systems but through processual world-binding, a form of cognition grounded in irreversible relational coupling and emergent reorganization. Characteristics often interpreted as dysfunctions—work incapacity, overcomplexity, communicative mismatch, withdrawal, or compulsive structure production—may instead result from conflicts between fundamentally different forms of world organization. Drawing on long-term autoethnographic field research across labour relations, bureaucratic institutions, social conflicts, and artistic practices, the paper identifies recursive cycles in which externally imposed functional structures collapse eigenzeit-based coherence, followed by emergent reorganization and renewed theory production. These dynamics point toward a structural incompatibility between world-binding cognition and simulation-based institutional orders.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 10, 2026
Diego Diniz Maia
A new theoretical framework proposes that conscious states correspond to metastable regimes of large-scale thalamocortical coordination near critical dynamical boundaries. The framework formalizes a dynamic coordination functional Φ(t), measurable from high-density EEG as a weighted combination of gamma-band power, thalamocortical coherence, and theta-gamma coupling. The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) is identified as the anatomical control parameter governing proximity to the critical point, grounded in a Wilson-Cowan model. Numerical simulations show power-law recovery dynamics consistent with model A universality class (exponent ν between 0.5 and 1.5). The phase space of Φ(t) separates simulated waking, anaesthetic, ictal, and minimally conscious regimes without parameter fitting. Six falsifiable predictions across five experimental domains are derived, including specific EEG scaling exponents and TRN silencing effects.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 10, 2026
Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of classical Indian philosophy systematized by Śaṅkara, offers a sophisticated framework for understanding consciousness, self, and reality. Modern consciousness studies, an interdisciplinary field, has increasingly engaged with non-Western philosophical resources to address the hard problem of consciousness. This article examines the dialogue between Advaita Vedanta and modern consciousness studies, analyzing peer-reviewed scholarship from 2010 to 2025. The analysis identifies four dimensions: conceptual mapping between Advaitic categories and contemporary philosophy of mind, engagement with the hard problem through non-dualistic frameworks, empirical investigation of Vedantic contemplative practices, and methodological and ethical considerations in cross-cultural work. The dialogue is genuinely productive when conducted with philosophical rigour and respect for distinct frameworks.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 9, 2026
Hechun Sun
A theoretical framework integrating Taiji Unified Field Theory with Buddhist consciousness teachings (Vijnaptimatrata, Madhyamaka, Twelve Nidānas, karma), Western Freudian psychoanalysis, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs is proposed. The model posits that all forms of consciousness—human, machine, life, and cosmic—follow common laws of Yin-Yang field coupling, K-value phase transition, and closed-loop evolution. It aims to provide a unified path for carbon-based life and silicon-based intelligence to evolve together toward a high-order steady state, with applications from underlying psychology to system stability and AI alignment.