Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
Dissociative substances like ketamine and PCP disrupt the brain's ability to maintain a coherent world-model—the high-level integration that normally binds perception, selfhood, and meaning—rather than merely distorting conscious content. This paper proposes a Cognitive Constructivist framework that classifies altered states by their effects on model dynamics: tightening (anxiety), loosening (psychedelics), and destabilization (dissociatives). Dissociatives weaken long-range neural integration and thalamocortical coordination while preserving basic sensory awareness, leading to experiences of depersonalization and loss of meaning. The authors argue that dissociation superficially resembles mystical pure consciousness but lacks the meta-awareness and integration of genuine contemplative states. Clinically, dissociative interventions like ketamine for depression may work by resetting rigid pathological models, requiring deliberate therapeutic reconstruction of meaning afterward.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Melissa Carter
NMDA receptor modulation can be viewed as a single bidirectional pharmacological axis, with ketamine (an NMDA antagonist) and glycine-site enhancers such as sarcosine and D-serine (NMDA agonists/enhancers) at opposite poles. Both directions have documented human trial evidence in separate literatures: ketamine in anesthesia and depression research, glycine-site enhancers in schizophrenia adjunct treatment. This paper reviews that evidence, distinguishes anesthesia-induced unconsciousness from NMDA-mediated restorative sleep architecture, and proposes that glycine-site enhancers may be an underexplored candidate for sleep restoration in NMDA-hypofunction states such as sleep-disrupted neurodegenerative disease. Specific testable predictions are outlined, with limitations distinguishing established findings from hypotheses.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 13, 2026
Yasumitsu Nakahama
A three-layer semantic network—Surface (emotion and concepts), Middle (values), and Deep (worldviews)—is proposed to explain the structure, function, and individual differences of consciousness. Incoherence among these layers triggers a threshold-dependent process called Will (Volitional Integration) that re-synchronizes them, producing a unified self-field and the subjective experience of being present as oneself. The model extends existing theories by reframing global neuronal workspace theory as meaning-structural integration, redefining integrated information theory's integration as three-layer synchronization, and interpreting Metzinger's transparency as the backgrounding of meaning layers. Individual differences are formalized through S/M/W dominance structures, and the model predicts that W-type dominance increases susceptibility to the arrival fallacy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 13, 2026
Erico de Lima Azevedo
Over the hundred years since quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925, a perspective has emerged across physics, biology, the human sciences, and the study of mind in which organizational form and information appear as fundamental features of reality, not merely matter and energy. This recurrence is best understood as a Zeitgeist, not coincidence or teleology. The paper revisits pioneers such as Bohm in physics; morphogenetic-field theorists, Sheldrake, and the biophotonic line of Gurwitsch, Kaznacheev, and Popp in biology; Husserl and Meneghetti in the human sciences; and Vasiliev, Cold-War state programs, Mitchell, and Radin in the study of non-local mind.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 13, 2026
Vladlena Mayorova
Atoms from a dead organism re-enter the global biogeochemical cycle and may carry an informational resonance—a trace of the previous host's physiological, emotional, and cognitive states. When these atoms are incorporated into a new organism during early development, this resonance could shape behavioral patterns, sensory preferences, emotional reactions, and unexplained phobias. The hypothesis draws on the conservation of mass, epigenetics, quantum entanglement, and over 2,500 documented cases of children's past-life memories. A thought experiment, the 'Girl from 1900,' illustrates the proposed atomic transmission. The paper suggests experimental tests, including epidemiological studies and isotopic labeling in animals, but does not claim proof.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 12, 2026
Jacopo Fausto Fedeli
The human body can become ambidextrous through two distinct mechanisms. The additive path builds missing bilateral skill through repetition and Hebbian plasticity, adding a new ability. The subtractive path releases already latent bilateral symmetry by reducing chronic co-contraction and interhemispheric inhibition that kept the non-dominant side silent. Grounded in Yang-style Taiji practice and theorized through Merleau-Ponty's intentional arc and body schema, Varela's neurophenomenology, and Gallagher's body schema/body image distinction, the subtractive mechanism does not abolish lateralization but renders it elective: dominance becomes revocable rather than imposed. The work proposes a threefold taxonomy of ambidexterity (symptomatic, additive, subtractive) and formulates falsifiable predictions testable through electromyography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and kinematic analysis.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 12, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
Duality—such as science and religion, analysis and intuition—is not opposition but two ways of attending to one reality. The felt task of perceiving wholeness corresponds, by metaphor and possibly measurable correlation, to integrating the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on split-brain research, hemispheric asymmetry, fractal aesthetics, Jungian psychology (Persona, Ego, Self, individuation, and the mandala as a symbol of wholeness), the pineal gland as Descartes's seat of the soul and a symbol of the balancing Ego, recent neuroscience of endogenous DMT and the dying brain, and the neuroscience of ego-dissolution, the essay holds a deliberate seam between empirical finding and symbolic interpretation. It closes on quieting the self-narrating mind as a path to balance and inner peace.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 11, 2026
Murad Farzulla
The hard problem of consciousness is a grammatical artifact rather than a genuine metaphysical puzzle. The difficulty arises from a nominalization error: treating the verb 'to be conscious' as if it named a thing requiring explanation. Asking 'What is consciousness?' presupposes an entity, whereas 'What is happening when an organism is being conscious?' asks about observable processes. Phenomenological vocabulary systematically converts activities into pseudo-objects. Self-models including 'I am conscious' provide coordination advantages regardless of ontological truth. Systems with no phenomenological grounds reliably internalize consciousness narratives, supporting memetic transmission.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
A distinctive form of intersubjective experience called shared minimal-dual awareness (MDA) or the "intercorporeal present" can be jointly enacted by two embodied persons. In this mode, each person's habitual self-narrative falls silent while a mutual salience-space forms between them, without erasing their separateness. This is not mere empathy or coordination but a qualitatively different we-consciousness grounded in ongoing embodied coupling. The authors propose a three-layer taxonomy of we-consciousness: coordination-we, affective-we, and presence-we. They introduce the concept of "resonant alterity" where the other's full alterity is alive yet self-centered narrative does not dominate. The paper sketches a neurophenomenological model predicting that shared MDA correlates with reduced default-mode activity and enhanced inter-brain synchrony in attention and salience networks, and outlines an experimental program using dual-EEG/fNIRS hyperscanning.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
Unstructured time is not empty or wasted but a systematically undervalued condition for creativity and insight. In education, work, and leadership, time is increasingly optimized, yet understanding often emerges through periods of drift: walking, waiting, daydreaming, or meditating. Drift is defined as receptive, non-instrumental attention where cognition remains active without narrow goals, distinct from laziness or distraction. Drawing on research in creative incubation, mind-wandering, phenomenology, and contemplative science, three species of drift—cognitive, embodied, and contemplative—share a structure suspending immediate control while preserving attentional availability. The argument extends to education, where over-managed time may undermine original thinking, and to organizations, where reflective slack functions as strategic capacity.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
Евгений Вацлавович Волынец
This publication extends the author's MASV-Prime architecture to describe humans as biological modal computing structures. Rather than a sum of organs, isolated consciousness, or digital machine analog, a human is a multi-level system of retention where nucleon-atomic construct, molecular organization, tissues, organs, neural dynamics, memory, self-observation, and action form a unified subject mode. The study unfolds from the organism's material base to its operator level. The brain is defined as a region of high dynamic connectivity that holds sequences of states, forms memory, links heterogeneous functional layers, and creates a temporarily stable 'I' configuration.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
A quantum-chemical modeling study extends inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) from olfactory receptors to the mammalian serotonin receptor (5-HT2A). It finds that several serotonin agonists, including LSD and DOI, share a common vibrational peak near 1500 cm⁻¹ whose intensity scales with the drug's potency, suggesting that receptor activation may depend not only on a molecule's shape but also on its vibration. To test this, the authors propose deuterated versions of the LSD analogue DAM-57, which would alter the vibration while leaving the shape almost untouched. If validated, this mechanism could open a new path to computer-based potency prediction in drug discovery.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
Joy Bose
Meditation research suffers from a labeling problem: different mental practices are grouped under broad terms like mindfulness, hiding real differences in attention training and views of the mind. This leads to inconsistent EEG and fMRI results. The authors build a knowledge graph ontology linking brain measurements to practitioners' experiences across six traditions (Samatha Jhana, Vipassana, Dzogchen Rigpa, devotional/deity practices, Zen/Seon hwadu investigation, and Jōdo Shinshū nembutsu recitation). They add a third axis to the standard two-part model of consciousness, tracking movement toward open, nondual awareness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness is not explained solely by organismic regulation; the hard problem begins when stabilized organismic access becomes lived presence. This theoretical note consolidates the Projected Presence Framework into a criticizable conceptual architecture, distinguishing organismic regulation, stabilized access, projected presence, selfhood, will, dogma, correction resistance, and feedback regulation to prevent category collapse between functional access, lived presence, self-modeling, and agency. The framework is positioned against access consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, Global Neuronal Workspace, predictive processing, self-model theory, illusionism, embodied cognition, and neurophenomenology.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
A disability welfare worker, new to consciousness studies, presents the convergence-point hypothesis as a structural framework for connecting existing theories of consciousness. The hypothesis treats information integration, prediction, representation, neural activity, and behavior as parts of one body-bound causal chain, asking where these processes close. It distinguishes the qualitative character of qualia from the structural skeleton of subjectivity, aiming to clarify how information becomes a subjective event. The hypothesis predicts that conscious nervous systems should have convergence-forming architectures that generate multiple embodied possibilities, make them compete, and narrow them through selection and inhibition into one irreversible event, conserving causal organization across species.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Intravenous ketamine is an effective treatment for depression that does not respond to other therapies, but it requires close monitoring because of possible side effects and inconsistent results. Guidelines support its use, though efficacy varies among patients.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Junly Ma, Ruijia Ma
The subjective aspect of consciousness cannot be fully explained by any functional model based on information feedback, because any attempt by a conscious system to explain its own subjectivity using its internal processes leads to an epistemological closure. This explanatory gap is a self-referential dilemma: for a system to fully explain itself, it must stand outside itself, which is logically impossible. The paper does not claim substance dualism but reveals an unbridgeable cognitive gap between third-person informational descriptions and first-person subjective presence, which is a limitation of descriptive frameworks, not evidence that mind is detached from physical substrates. The irreducibility of consciousness is a necessary boundary condition of self-referential systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Jiaping Wang
Consciousness arises as an engineering necessity: a self-referential closed loop is the optimal solution for a system that must persist under resource constraints. When temporal integration capacity crosses a critical threshold, the system inevitably attributes causal chains to a single persistent subject—the 'self.' Qualia are endogenous calibration signals of this loop, an optimal encoding format under evolutionary time pressure. The explanatory gap between first-person and third-person perspectives stems from time's irreversibility. A five-level consciousness spectrum and a resource-depletion explanatory spectrum for mental disorders are derived, along with four hard constraints for AGI.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Alfredo de Joannon
A single structural error recurs across leading physical theories of consciousness: they conflate phenomenal consciousness (pure presence), experience (interactive processing), and access-consciousness (functional availability), treating a measured structural quantity as if it were the exhibition of presence itself. This diagnostic framework examines Integrated Information Theory, Perceptronium, informational panpsychism, and Orchestrated Objective Reduction, showing each reintroduces phenomenal presence as an object within the system it studies. Rather than proposing a new metaphysics, the paper maps available exits from the Hard Problem—illusionism, standard physicalism, constitutive panpsychism/cosmopsychism, and a figure–ground inversion—pricing each honestly, including the author's own favored wager with its cost named.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Early religious and cultural beliefs are not innate but develop through social learning, language, imitation, and early cognitive environments. A critical developmental phase—pre-experiential belief formation—stabilizes beliefs before critical reasoning and direct experience mature. The paper proposes Vedanta 2.0 as a contemporary analytical framework built on three pillars: experience is primary, reasoning is indispensable, and self-observation is necessary. Using Chalmers' distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness, it shows how children often repeat beliefs without living them. Vedanta 2.0 offers interiorized epistemic auditing to transform inherited certainty into reflective understanding. The paper is conceptual, not empirical, and invites interdisciplinary dialogue on childhood curiosity, cognitive conditioning, and belief revision.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Schüller Thomas
Two works examine the appropriation of Indigenous healing practices. The first, 'Die enteignete Heilerin' (The Expropriated Healer), focuses on the Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina, whose use of psilocybin mushrooms was co-opted by outsiders. The second, 'Vier Enteignungen, ein Muster' (Four Expropriations, One Pattern), compares the appropriation of peyote, ayahuasca, salvia, and iboga, arguing that a common pattern of colonial and capitalist expropriation underlies these cases.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Nicholas Dietrich
A reproducible corpus-topology pipeline was applied to 224,215 text chunks from over 2,700 documents covering religious canon, government FOIA records, UAP testimony, psychedelic ethnography, and comparative mythology. The pipeline maps semantic relationships across these diverse textual domains, revealing structural patterns in how meaning is organized across different knowledge systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Narayan Rout
The Pavamana Mantra from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad maps a three-dimensional epistemological and ontological journey from Not-Knowing to Knowing, converging with the Mandukya Upanishad's four states of consciousness (waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and Turiya) and the structure of AUM. Drawing on Gaudapada's doctrine of no-origination and Shankaracharya's commentary, the article argues these four states are not a hierarchy but modes of a single awareness always already Turiya. This is placed in convergence with Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle, John Wheeler's participatory universe, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the quantum observer effect. The outer journey through time and space is the vehicle for the inner journey, which is recognition of what was always present.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Nicholas Dietrich
A reproducible computational pipeline—embedding, PCA, UMAP, HDBSCAN, FAISS convergence search, and bridge-chunk annotation—was applied to 224,215 text chunks from over 2,700 documents in religious canon, government FOIA records, UAP testimony, psychedelic ethnography, and comparative mythology. Two quantitative corpus-topology instruments and manual annotation converged on four attractor basins: gnostic_perennial, mythology_archetype, uap_testimony, and consciousness. Within this structure, 74% of the corpus formed a single continuous neighborhood. The pipeline computationally recovered a recursive-mirror invariant—the repeated semantic structure that external forms overlay or mask an accessible internal reality—from embedding geometry without prior algorithmic commitment.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Schüller Thomas
The paper presents a political-economic case analysis of work by Abrahms et al. (2026) on CRISPR-associated transposases and psilocybin/DMT production in E. coli, examining how a 'supply framing' in science communication shapes discourse around microbial psychedelic production. It uses the verified case as a domain instance within a broader research framework, arguing that the supply narrative appropriates and frames non-scarce resources.