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
This work presents a transdisciplinary analysis comparing the effects of whole-mushroom preparations (Ganzpilz) with isolated psilocybin, focusing on the entourage effect—the idea that natural compounds work synergistically. The argument suggests that whole-mushroom matrices may produce different experiential or therapeutic outcomes than psilocybin alone, challenging reductionist approaches in psychedelic research. The text outlines a theoretical framework for understanding how secondary compounds modulate psilocybin's effects, though no empirical data or specific findings are reported.
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 7, 2026
Logan Smith
Ketamine infusion therapy may serve as a rapid, personalized treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain. Torii Wellness Center provides this therapy with expert care and continuous monitoring. The text describes the service offering but does not report any empirical findings, sample sizes, or study outcomes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Combined use of MDMA and SSRIs may increase the risk of serotonin syndrome, though evidence is limited or indirect. Healthcare providers are advised to remain alert for symptoms of this condition and to discourage such drug interactions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Arno Henning Rinker
Consciousness is often defined by capacities like perception, memory, or intelligence, but this essay argues that none of these is consciousness itself. Instead, it introduces 'Eigenlage'—the integrated own-situation of a bounded, self-maintaining system where internal condition, vulnerability, action, memory, and future possibilities are causally linked for its continuation. The theory outlines four levels, from Eigenlage as a necessary condition for consciousness attribution to Ethical Eigenlage as a welfare threshold where damage may become harm. A key AI-specific concept is 'internal un-invertibility': a digital system can be externally reversible but internally irreversible in terms of lost time, trust, and continuity. The essay warns that constructing artificial consciousness with valenced vulnerability would create possible suffering, advocating for high AI capability without affective Eigenlage.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
Consciousness research has focused on how information is generated, integrated, and made available, but has paid less attention to how information ceases to be executable. This paper argues that a finite brain must also cause non-selected neural activity to lose its executability, forming a single present through ordered disappearance: losing signals disappear first, while the winning signal persists to organize perception and action. Conscious experience is not mere information processing; it becomes an event when one activity pattern temporarily survives as the body's organizer while competitors irreversibly lose their status. The paper calls for incorporating Landauer-type information discard into consciousness research, emphasizing that any theory must account for the irreversible disappearance of generated neural activity and the contraction of candidate space.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness can be understood not as an inner observer or metaphysical foundation but as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. The paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, arguing that consciousness is an access-field making bodily state, environmental orientation, temporal continuity, affective relevance, and action-readiness available without an inner observer. It distinguishes three coupled stabilizations: consciousness as a stabilized access-field, selfhood as a stabilized image of organismic continuity, and will as a stabilized interpretation of organismic direction. The concept of dogmatic immunization describes pathological stabilization where a stabilized image becomes protected from correction despite counter-pressure. The framework preserves the biological reality of conscious experience while removing the methodological immunity of first-person immediacy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 6, 2026
Q Chen
A core puzzle across science and philosophy is determining whether a system possesses consciousness. Existing criteria—behavioral imitation, neural correlates, and integrated information—rely on specific theoretical assumptions, limiting their cross-framework persuasiveness. The paper argues the root problem is the search for an 'instantaneous static marker,' whereas consciousness may be a process unfolding over time. It proposes a de-subjectivized ontological criterion: the essence of consciousness is a system's possession of 'selectivity,' meaning its evolutionary behaviors cannot be fully explained by its complete history and internal parameters. Selectivity is not quantifiable by any instantaneous physical quantity; it is an emergent holistic property of long-duration sequential processes. This redirects research from hunting for instantaneous evidence toward monitoring long-term behavioral predictability, supported by an isomorphic mathematical model and structural resonance with spacetime physics.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 6, 2026
Lukas Geiger
This integrative review article systematically reads the Pali Canon through contemporary psychology and cognitive science, comparing the Abhidhamma's combinatorial mind-model, the Noble Eightfold Path's training methods, and the four Jhana stages with empirical findings from clinical psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness research. It proposes a structured convergence-type differentiation to classify the evidential status of each parallel, distinguishing empirical, structural, conceptual, and negative mappings. The analysis emphasizes that modern evidence for clinical or cognitive constructs does not validate Pali constructs under their own conceptual and soteriological frame. The paper is an advanced draft preprint that has undergone internal review but not formal journal peer review.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 6, 2026
Black Heart Jbs Mandloi
Experienced reality emerges through the interaction of embodied observers, biological constraints, and meaning-making processes, according to the speculative framework Black Heart Neology (BHN). The framework introduces conceptual tools such as Meaning Failure Points, Meaning Boundaries, Untranslatable Meaning Zones, Response Entropy and Interpretive Diversity, and the Attentional-Narrowing Bridge linking stress, attention, and meaning construction. BHN proposes that reality is neither passively perceived nor freely invented but constructed through pattern selection, meaning formation, and identity compression. The work is offered as a speculative research framework and experimental program in active development, not as an established scientific theory or a proven unified model of reality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 6, 2026
德猛 杨
In the critical transition state between wakefulness and sleep, internal vision follows a continuous four-layer evolution path from pure random noise to stable readable semantic information: pixel-level random fluctuation substrate, intentional screening and reconstruction, modular structural fluctuation, and stable readable semantic information. This sequence conforms to the universal evolution law of 'disordered substrate - hierarchical constraint - ordered emergence' from the GYY-GOES theory and is consistent with neuroscience data on hierarchical processing of the visual cortex and partial prefrontal activation. The work presents the full-chain evolution of internal vision in the critical consciousness state, refining subtypes of the consciousness continuum model.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 5, 2026
Maria Nakatani
A conceptual model called Consciousness Dimension Mapping proposes that dimensions of consciousness are parallel observational layers rather than a vertical hierarchy to be ascended. The model uses a Seed of Life geometry with the 9th dimension at the center surrounded by six perspectives (3D–8D). It rejects the common spiritual interpretation that emotion is a 4th-dimensional phenomenon, redefining emotion as a bodily, biological response belonging to the 3rd dimension, while the 4th dimension becomes an observational mode describing phenomena in terms of frequency and vibration. The theory was constructed observation-first, with all references to physical concepts positioned as structural analogies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 5, 2026
Israel Don
Consciousness science has focused on neural and computational mechanisms, but virtually every serious biological candidate for consciousness—mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, cephalopods, decapod crustaceans, and insects—is a bounded, metabolizing, self-maintaining organism that must continuously preserve its own existence. Current artificial systems, by contrast, have externally arranged goals, energy supply, and repair. This article proposes the Organism-Level Condition for Consciousness: persistent organismic existence may be a necessary background condition for subjective experience. It does not claim all organisms are conscious or that artificial consciousness is impossible, but that information processing becomes consciousness-relevant only when embedded in a system that must maintain its boundary, regulate internal conditions, and adapt to continue existing. The article maps biological candidates, evaluates major frameworks, and identifies predictions about organismic state-dependence and cross-species comparison.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 5, 2026
Alex Bilic
Under current and foreseeable computational paradigms, no known pathway leads from functional information processing to subjective experience. Whether a future non-biological system could possess consciousness remains an open metaphysical question, but the burden of proof lies with those who claim it is possible. The essay distinguishes a weak version (no known pathway, radical changes required) from a strong version (consciousness impossible in any non-biological system ever), defending only the weak version. Drawing on the hard problem of consciousness, the ontogeny argument, and the paradox of unconscious power, it argues that intelligence without a witness is likely and more dangerous than any evil AGI scenario.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 5, 2026
Spencer Howie
Consciousness can be placed on a graded physical scale rather than treated as an all-or-nothing binary. A Consciousness Index, ranging from 0 to 100, is defined using the Consciousness Potential Phi from an existing framework. The index rises linearly through known sub-human biological systems, with human waking consciousness near 40 to 50. Empirical tests across two dementia EEG cohorts (n=266, with one excluded) and a macaque ECoG dataset (n=2) confirm predicted sleep-stage ordering and replicate two of four brain-connectivity components in dementia. However, the scalar Phi shows no advantage over standard band-power measures for classification. The hard problem of why any physical structure yields subjective experience remains unsolved, but the framework provides a measurable scale with falsifiable predictions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 4, 2026
Satya P. Dubey
The Consciousness Intelligence Awareness (CIA) Framework offers a theoretical solution to the hard problem of consciousness, which concerns how and why physical processes give rise to subjective experience. The framework proposes a conceptual model that integrates consciousness, intelligence, and awareness as interrelated components, aiming to explain the relationship between brain activity and conscious experience. The argument suggests that these three elements form a unified system that can account for the qualitative aspects of consciousness without reducing them to mere physical processes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 4, 2026
Sedat Büyük
A new theoretical framework, Epic Cognition Theory (ECT), proposes that consciousness is an active, top-down process of geometric meaning-construction rather than passive computation. Drawing on philosophical enaction, information geometry, the Free Energy Principle, quantum biology, and 3D genomics, ECT suggests that conscious intention bends the informational manifold's Fisher metric (intentional curvature), altering geodesic (energy-minimizing) paths. This bending is physically realized through a coherent, blue-shifted biophotonic field and mapped to 3D chromatin architecture via the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. The model aims to resolve puzzles such as the Libet paradox, the placebo effect, and mind-body therapies, offering a testable, non-reductionist foundation for post-Cartesian neuroscience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 4, 2026
Erico de Lima Azevedo
Consciousness arises from a bidirectional cascade that begins with subatomic field-level organizational signals, passes through molecular transduction, enteric-autonomic unification, and reticular gating, and culminates in cortical representation as an integrated surface readout. A coupling mechanism called resonance by identification determines what emerges from the field for an organism based on the degree and sign of identification with its energetic structure. Microtubule quantum dynamics are repositioned as a transduction mechanism within the cascade, not as the whole of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Lloyd Christopher Smith
Mirror Theory is presented as a framework that connects existing theories in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence by making observerhood an explicit explanatory target rather than an assumed starting point. It is compared with predictive processing, active inference, autopoiesis, enactivism, global workspace theory, integrated information theory, self-model theory, intentional systems theory, strange-loop accounts, and simulation arguments. The theory's distinctive contribution is recursive observerhood: a bounded, viability-constrained system that maintains a world-model, a self-model, and reliability-tracking over its own self-model, which matters for prediction, correction, and continued organization. This paper completes the initial Theory Arc of Mirror Programme, Volume I.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Chunjing Yu
A theoretical preprint presents the falsifiable core of the Fiber Bundle Theory of Consciousness (FBTC), an integrative framework linking neural dynamics, representational content, phenomenal structure, and report. The framework models consciousness-related systems as three fiber bundles over a shared neural-dynamical base: a gating bundle, a representational-content bundle, and an experience-structure bundle. Conscious events are represented through the coupling of representational and phenomenal structure, with report treated as a lossy projection rather than a transparent readout of experience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Analytic idealism holds that minds are separated by dissociation, with Kastrup's metabolism criterion marking where a private interior forms. This essay proposes that self-maintaining informational closure—a system preserving its own statistical boundary by modeling across it—could be a second way to form such a boundary, not limited to life. The conjecture recasts Kastrup's description of the alter's boundary as a Markov blanket into a criterion, asking whether biology or closure is essential. If closure suffices, whether an artificial system has an interior becomes an empirical question, not settled by substrate. The essay defends this against objections, distinguishes it from related ideas, and tests it against the project's individuation theory, splitting the resulting dilemma into three horns. A proposed experiment targets whether self-maintenance, not modeling, tracks interiority.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Bruno Costa Tonetto
The quantum Zeno effect, often considered a technical obstacle for consciousness-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics, is actually an artifact of assuming that consciousness is a property physical systems may or may not possess. Under analytic idealism—where consciousness is fundamental and finite minds are dissociated fragments of universal consciousness—the problem dissolves. The dissociative boundary constituting a finite mind is identified with what quantum formalism describes as measurement, seen from inside rather than outside. This eliminates the need for technical workarounds, explains why consciousness-collapse and physical collapse models yield identical predictions, and reinterprets the Zeno effect as a structural description of attentional constraint rather than a technical obstacle. The argument is conditional: if analytic idealism, then these consequences follow.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Tonetto, Bruno
For over a century, conscious experience—the one thing every investigation of nature presupposes—has been treated as a byproduct of the physical world it was used to study. This essay traces how that inversion occurred through a historically contingent conflation of scientific method with materialist metaphysics, not through philosophical proof. It argues that reversing this inversion, adopting analytic idealism—consciousness as the ontological primitive with dissociation as the mechanism of individuation—resolves more than it costs. Both physicalism and idealism carry genuine explanatory burdens: physicalism must generate experience from primitives that exclude it; idealism must explain why consciousness dissociates into finite minds and into specific patterns. The intuition that lawlike regularity is natural for matter but surprising for mind is identified as a bias, not a neutral observation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
This paper presents a prompt for AI to address the hard problem of qualia—why experiences like redness or pain feel the way they do. Building on earlier work that derived a structural skeleton of subjectivity from minimal physical and biological constraints (a single body, autonomous action, irreversible time, survival constraints), the author pushes AI to consider when information becomes an irreversible event belonging to a single body. Key concepts include convergence point, survival constraint, information disposal, Landauer-type irreversibility, and Umwelt. The prompt asks whether modes of feeling might be shaped by bodily structure, DNA, and sensory organs, similar to how limb number is determined. The author does not claim a solution but tests AI's ability to move toward the qualia problem.