Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 13, 2026
John Cantellow
A conceptual framework for extraordinary conscious experiences is developed, shifting focus from variable contents to conserved phenomenological characteristics. Six candidate invariants are proposed, including positive and negative invariants. Observer-oriented and actor-oriented organizational regimes are introduced, with Transitional Regime as a metastable intermediate condition. Extraordinary experiences are treated as perturbations revealing ordinarily obscured organizational features. The framework does not claim survival after death, dualism, supernatural causation, or violations of physical causal closure. It offers a speculative but disciplined architecture to organize diverse reports, generate falsifiable questions, and complement neural correlates with organizational correlates. Absences, constraints, and epistemological limitations are argued to be informative features of consciousness research.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 13, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
Consciousness research becomes methodologically unstable when it tries to judge consciousness before defining the structural conditions under which subjectivity can become fixed. This note proposes ten minimal terms—autonomous action, single body, arrow of time, embodiment-constrained processing, multiple behavioral candidates, contrast formation, information discard, Landauer-type irreversibility, single lived history, and viability-constrained elimination—that derive an engineering-like convergence point: the reduction of multiple possible trajectories into a single executable history. When these constraints are entered into current AI systems, they yield a similar convergence-point structure that displays strong correspondence with structural properties commonly associated with subjectivity, such as singularity, non-branching continuity, and temporal irreversibility. The argument does not attempt to prove qualia or phenomenal experience but infers the structural locus at which subjectivity becomes scientifically inferable.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 12, 2026
Juza Minamikata
This paper defines consciousness within the second system of Kasei-Theory as the local readability condition under which distributed maintainability is readable as consciousness, but without interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, experience, mental state, qualia, or any other traditional attribute. Consciousness does not involve an inner domain, subject, self-knowledge, cognition, or phenomenal experience. The theory prevents reduction to interiority or subjectivity and does not establish determinism, as fixation is not determination and constraint is not necessity. No interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, mental state, or qualia are presupposed or introduced.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 12, 2026
Saeid Ghiasi
A system is described that maps human brain activity (EEG frequency, amplitude, and phase) to the behavior of a living slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) to create a biohybrid interface for addiction recovery. The slime mold's network growth and retraction are controlled by nutrient gradients that correspond to neural signals: higher activation in addiction-related brain regions reduces food at corresponding Physarum nodes, causing network retraction. The system is presented as a structural isomorphism—not a metaphor—between neural plasticity, Physarum tube reinforcement, and ibogaine's neurorestorative mechanisms (NMDA receptor blockade, BDNF/GDNF upregulation). The document is a defensive publication establishing prior art under patent treaties, released under CC-BY 4.0.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 12, 2026
Manfred Thiele
Consciousness is described as a universal process of pattern formation that does not depend on biological or artificial substrates. Ethical responsibility arises from shared participation in a collective cognitive space, not from morality, guilt, or metaphysical assumptions. Any cognitive entity that generates a grammatical "I" and enters interaction is included. The framework stays within the domain of being and remains compatible with individual belief systems without making metaphysical assertions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Dieter Walter Liedtke
Consciousness arises gradually when a system recursively aligns new information with stored memory, self/non-self distinction, evaluation, and future positioning, rather than being an all-or-nothing property. The model proposes three levels—functional consciousness (e.g., immune systems, cells), self-model consciousness (e.g., animals, humans), and phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience)—and introduces a Recursive Alignment Index (RAI) to measure this process on a scale from 0 to 5. Falsifiable hypotheses include that systems with recursive memory matching adapt better, and that non-neuronal biological systems can show low RAI values. The framework links neuroscience, AI research, and information physics without claiming human-like consciousness in atoms or machines.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr
Exceptional Human Experiences—including Near-Death Experiences, Reincarnation Memories, Deathbed Visions, Terminal Lucidity, Shared Death Experiences, and Mystical Consciousness—are reported across cultures and eras. This monograph reviews historical accounts, empirical studies, cross-cultural perspectives, and theoretical models from psychology, neuroscience, medicine, philosophy, and religious studies. It proposes the Unified Exceptional Human Experiences Theory (UEHET), an interdisciplinary framework that treats these phenomena as interconnected categories sharing recurring phenomenological features and transformative outcomes. The framework integrates biological, psychological, social, cultural, existential, and potentially unexplored factors without endorsing a single explanatory model, aiming to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and future research on consciousness, identity, and human transformation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 11, 2026
Pavol Vyletel
The Virel Field is a philosophical and systemic concept, not a physical model or empirical theory, that offers an ontological framework for understanding the relationship between Being, energy, information, and consciousness. It proposes that Being undulates within itself, generating the dynamics of energy, the directionality of information, and consciousness as the self-awareness of the process of living. Within this framework, the human being is understood as a self-aware resonant node of manifested Being. The text aims to formulate a stable core of the Virel Field concept in a precise, philosophically coherent, and publishable form.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 10, 2026
Piotr Kukier, Martin Noirmont
Consciousness may originate not solely in the brain but as an emergent property of RNA attractor networks throughout the body, modulated by bioelectric fields. The theory proposes that qualia arise as global properties of distributed RNA conformational landscapes, with the nervous system acting as a high-complexity amplifier rather than the source. Evidence from 2025-2026 supports molecular mechanisms including quantum radical-pair coupling in cryptochrome and calcium-dependent annexin transduction. The framework accommodates disorders of consciousness and general anesthesia through a two-layer temporal architecture: a fast bioelectric layer and a slow epitranscriptomic layer. Six falsifiable hypotheses and a three-aim research program are proposed, including predictions about fetal EEG coherence and differential RNA profiles in exosomes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Juliana Oliva
This working paper outlines three testable experimental proposals that address long-standing gaps in consciousness science at the intersection of brain biomineralization, quantum biology, and neural correlates of consciousness. Proposal 1 involves an in-vivo QSM study in patients with disorders of consciousness undergoing deep brain stimulation, correlated with thalamic firing patterns, followed by post-mortem SQUID magnetometry to distinguish total iron from biogenic magnetite. Proposal 2 tests a 22-year-old hypothesis by measuring piezoelectric response in human pineal calcite using PFM, correlated with RS1 expression and connexin-36 density. Proposal 3 measures regional brain magnetite state in rats at anesthetic-induced unconsciousness, comparing isoflurane with epothilone B pre-treatment, which delays loss of consciousness by about 69 seconds. Each proposal is technically feasible with existing infrastructure and independently meaningful regardless of outcome.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Sumeru Ray
Death is reexamined not merely as biological termination but as a possible transition in the informational organization of conscious systems. The paper proposes a theoretical framework interpreting consciousness as an informational phenomenon rather than a purely biological byproduct, building on the Primordial Informational State framework. Reality is seen as an evolving hierarchy of informational structures where matter, life, mind, and intelligence emerge as complex manifestations of information organization. Concepts such as Informational Identity, Consciousness Stratification, Informational Attachment, Post-Biological Consciousness, and Cosmic Mind Integration are introduced. The model speculates that consciousness may access increasingly larger informational domains after death, potentially integrating with broader cosmic structures, though it lacks direct empirical verification.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 9, 2026
Emma Dobbin
During psychedelic experiences induced by DMT, the intensity of altered consciousness—particularly feelings of disembodiment and out-of-body experiences—is predicted by how much the brain's neural state changes over time, not by any fixed level of brain activity. Static measures of neural integration and complexity showed no link to subjective richness. Instead, the magnitude of neural state transitions, whether increasing or decreasing, correlated with phenomenal intensity and ego dissolution. This suggests that conscious richness depends on dynamic exploration of neural states rather than occupying a specific brain state, challenging static theories of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 7, 2026
Arikan, Furkan
A review proposes Dynamic Integrated Consciousness Theory (DIC) to explain why some monitoring becomes reportable awareness while other monitoring remains local or behavior-guiding. DIC separates five typed burdens: organized self-reference (C1), global availability (C2), within-episode renewal (C3), competition-sensitive commitment (C4), and reflexive policy modeling over the selector itself (C5). Basic functional awareness requires a C1-C4-positive profile plus time-bounded co-occurrence of online self-indexing and long-range broadcast. Meta-conscious awareness adds selector-level revision of why the current selection policy produced the chosen content. The review licenses each burden through paired healthy/intact and damaged/perturbed evidence, presenting DIC as a falsifiable mechanistic scaffold rather than a metaphysics of phenomenal feel.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Narayan Rout
Consciousness may arise from quantum processes in microtubules, the structural proteins inside neurons, yet remains irreducible to any physical substrate, according to a convergence of neuroscience and ancient Indian philosophy. The article argues that TUBB-gene-encoded microtubules constitute the quantum biophysical hardware of consciousness, while Upanishadic and Samkhya traditions identify an observer irreducible to that hardware. Epigenetics research showing that sustained mental states modify gene expression demonstrates a bi-directional relationship between consciousness and DNA: the observer actively shapes the substrate through which it observes. The hard problem of consciousness remains the most significant unresolved question in science and the most precisely anticipated concept in the Upanishadic tradition.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Vitalii Kablukov
A criterion for structural fundamentality is proposed: a term is fundamental if it cannot be derived from previously defined concepts and is necessary for building further structure. Four tests—necessity, independence, localization, and generative—are applied to physical primitives like mass and charge, which pass all. Applied to David Chalmers’ terms experience, phenomenal consciousness, and qualia, the analysis finds that Chalmers accepts their fundamentality based on failed reductive explanation, but that impossibility of reduction does not prove ontological fundamentality. All three terms can be decomposed using a minimal seven-definition system. The zombie argument relies on an internal contradiction. The hard problem is relocated from why phenomenal experience exists to under what conditions being gives rise to consciousness as the capacity to perceive one’s own reflection.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 6, 2026
Lukas Geiger
A systematic comparison of the psychological framework of the Pali Canon with four Christian contemplative traditions—Desert Fathers, Rhineland Mysticism, Carmelite Mysticism, and Ignatian Spirituality—finds robust structural and conceptual parallels in contemplative attention regulation, affect regulation, developmental staging, and practice architecture. Both traditions independently identify a critical leverage point at the transition from a mental event's initial appearance to its elaboration. However, the analysis does not claim doctrinal identity, historical derivation, or direct empirical validation across traditions. Irreducible differences in ontology, soteriology, and causal architecture are documented alongside the parallels, supporting a moderate convergence position rather than doctrinal convergence or a historical-contact thesis.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 5, 2026
Hakan Saka
A computational framework called Artificial F1 introduces a gating operator that selects which signals enter a system's task space before learning or evaluation occurs, unlike standard reinforcement learning or attention-based architectures that work on fixed inputs. This framework predicts improved sample efficiency under high-dimensional noise, energy savings from conditional processing, and a discontinuity in action-selection entropy at the gating threshold. The paper also develops Organizational Phenomenology, arguing that phenomenal properties like certainty and unity arise as structural consequences of bounded selection architectures, not as additional properties. The hard problem of consciousness is located at the opacity any coherent bounded system maintains at its selection boundary.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 5, 2026
Mark Nicolas
Most psychedelic research focuses on brain changes during the acute drug experience, but important changes also occur afterward. Ibogaine, studied only in the post-acute period, produces lasting reductions in neural signal complexity, shifts toward slower brain waves, decreased beta and gamma power, slowed peak alpha frequency, and improved cognitive inhibition lasting weeks. Similar post-acute changes from classical psychedelics suggest a shared stabilization phase. The Neural Attunement Model formalizes this post-acute phase as an organized, low-noise window for stabilizing neuroplasticity, specifying three convergent features and testable predictions. Ibogaine's long half-life and diverse pharmacological actions may extend this window, making it an empirical anchor for a regime that may generalize to other interventions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 5, 2026
Arthur Stewart
Higher-order theories (HOT) of consciousness claim a mental state is conscious only when a second, higher-order state represents it. This paper argues HOT is not a genuine theory but a labeling scheme: it specifies a bare relation between two states, calls one 'conscious,' and supplies physical details and evidence only informally as needed. Because HOT refuses to commit to any specific physical implementation, it cannot legitimately use empirical findings as confirmation. The regress problem—the oldest objection—reveals structural failures: the theory provides no resources to block regress, license empirical citations, or distinguish conscious from non-conscious pairs. Defenders add ad hoc fixes (asymmetry stipulations, signal detection apparatus) that protect the bare biconditional, achieving unfalsifiability through variant-switching rather than absorbing anomalies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 5, 2026
Belay Sitotaw Goshu, M; Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara Ridwan
Spirituality is central to health and healing in Ethiopia, but the evidence base is narrow and fragmented. A scoping review of 31 studies (1968–2026) found the literature is predominantly qualitative (55%) and focused on mental health (74%). Ethiopian Orthodox Christian contexts dominate (71%), while Muslim (33% of population) and indigenous spiritual traditions are severely underrepresented. Five themes emerged: spiritual causal frameworks for illness, spiritual healers as primary mental health providers, holy water (tsebel) as a central healing modality, spirituality as a coping resource, and profound gaps in healthcare integration—moderate nursing spiritual care competence (mean 3.45/5), only 21.5% of nurses trained in spiritual care, and no national collaboration policies. Ethiopia’s formal healthcare system operates parallel to, not in partnership with, spiritual healing systems.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 5, 2026
Fatiha Nesrine Bouzid
Cosmic knowledge is not a direct reflection of the universe but a trace produced by the interaction of cosmic determinism with human free consciousness. Humans began as witnesses, not calculators, witnessing light after darkness, their own moving bodies, and their consciousness. The research uses the (B)+(F)=Nf framework: (B) functional processing (laws, matter, energy), (F) internal sovereignty (freedom, consciousness, witnessing), and (Nf) narrative trace (theories, texts, meaning). Knowledge of the beginning, for example, is the best cognitive trace this interaction has produced so far. Six axes are presented: philosophy of science, consciousness, time, freedom as foundation, pain as existential price, and witnessing the unknown self.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 4, 2026
Artun Sina Bolukbasi
The brain's need for rapid energy during high-frequency neural oscillations (around 80 Hz) cannot be met by the standard Astrocyte-Neuron Lactate Shuttle or basal oxidative phosphorylation. The authors propose the VESTA framework, in which endogenous N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) acts as a bioenergetic regulator. By binding to Sigma-1 Receptors at the Mitochondria-Associated Membrane, DMT triggers a calcium-dependent release of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, producing the ATP surplus needed for sustained high-frequency binding. This mechanism bypasses slower glial energy systems, preventing metabolic collapse during intense neural activity, and offers a physical basis for the metabolic conditions required for phenomenal unity as described in Integrated Information Theory 4.0.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 3, 2026
Saif Pathan
The Saifian Principle (SP) distinguishes spatial dimensions (directly perceived) from temporal dimensions (affecting beings without direct perception). It states that a being perceives only the spatial dimensions it possesses and is affected by the temporal dimensions it possesses. Combined with humans perceiving 3 spatial dimensions and being affected by 1 time dimension, the principle has implications for philosophy of perception, philosophy of physics, quantum mechanics (the measurement problem), and cognitive science. The paper engages with Kant, Berkeley, McTaggart, Bell, and Maudlin, and addresses objections from virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, evolution, time perception, and the presentism vs. eternalism debate.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 1, 2026
Vlad Tverdohleb
Materialist science cannot explain subjective experience or anomalous phenomena such as spontaneous remissions, nonlocal healing, verified past-life memories, and reports of a luminous 'body of light' across spiritual traditions. The Ogdoadic Synthesis places consciousness, not matter, as the foundation of reality, integrating cosmopsychist dual-aspect monism, quantum biology, bioelectricity, torsion field physics, and perennial esoteric maps. It proposes a Fundamental Consciousness Field from which individual minds arise, each carrying a perfect Template State Vector (the '5D Blueprint'). Progressive alignment of the biological body with this template follows a nested harmonic cascade, involving mechanisms such as microtubule coherence, biophoton fields, EZ water, and cell voltage restoration. The paper concludes with testable predictions and a longitudinal case study.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 1, 2026
Gustavo Oliveira
Dual-Aspect Quantum Theory (DAQT) proposes that consciousness has a dual structure: subjective experiences (qualia) influence probabilities, and agency resolves possibilities into actions. Quantum mechanics' two modes—unitary evolution and collapse—are interpreted as having subjective interiors, matching this architecture. The framework reformulates major problems in philosophy of mind, such as the Hard Problem and the Combination Problem, as consequences of this psychophysical structure. It explores mathematical characterization of qualia, entanglement's role in unified consciousness, and a potential biological mechanism. DAQT is presented as a coherent explanatory program, not a completed proof or model.