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 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
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
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
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
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness should not be treated as an inner observer or private theater, but as the biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation into an access-field that becomes lived as inner presence. The explanatory gap is not across consciousness as an undefined whole, but at the transition between stabilized organismic access and lived presence. The framework introduces a recurrent feedback loop in which projected presence can re-enter subsequent organismic regulation through attention, affective weighting, threat evaluation, memory, action-readiness, and correction uptake. The contribution is theoretical and methodological, offering a disciplined research scaffold for future work on consciousness, embodiment, agency, and selfhood.
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.
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
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
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 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 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 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 3, 2026
Amalie Stepperud-Antonsen
Psychosis may leave a person's core cognitive architecture intact while altering how they attribute reality to their experiences. Drawing on predictive processing, dreaming, and the Cognitive Languages framework, this hypothesis argues that the subjective experience of psychosis reflects the brain's existing representational systems rather than an entirely new way of thinking. The paper offers several testable predictions meant to guide future empirical research in computational psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and mechanism-based mental health treatment.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Kseniya Staravoitava
Five idiosyncratic technical terms—Ren-Kha, Sefi-Ra, Kap-Ele, Ked-Ur, and Ain-Sakh—appear only in an unpublished early-twentieth-century Russian esoteric manuscript provisionally titled Conversations of the Old Priest. Six years of research and systematic cross-referencing against major published corpora of Russian and Western esotericism, including Martinism, Theosophy, Christian and Hermetic Kabbalah, and academic Egyptology, show that this vocabulary is unattested elsewhere. Rather than treating this absence as an obstacle, the article argues that the lexicon's isolation is itself significant evidence: it suggests a private, non-disseminated transmission of doctrine and offers a methodological criterion—the "terminological fingerprint"—for future comparative work on the manuscript's authorship and milieu.
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 2, 2026
Fatiha Nesrine Bouzid
Meaning-making arises from the integration of two distinct layers of cognitive organization: functional processing (biological and computational mechanisms for perception, memory, and adaptive responses) and internal sovereignty (a higher-order capacity for self-awareness, ethical reflection, and metacognition). The proposed B+F=Nf model explains how systems transition from mere information processing to producing existential and ethical meaning. Animals possess advanced functional processing but lack full internal sovereignty, while artificial systems simulate language and creativity through complex functional processing but entirely lack internal sovereignty and subjective experience, so they produce only functional outputs that simulate meaning. The framework offers a unified way to compare humans, animals, and AI.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Eugene Catrambone
A unified framework links psychedelic neuropharmacology, microtubule biophysics, and spacetime information theory. It proposes that DMT alters subjective time by modulating microtubule vibrational coherence through 5-HT2A and sigma-1 receptor pathways. A coherence parameter Q scales an informational awareness tensor that couples to a scalar clock field, slowing it and producing time dilation and timelessness. The model integrates biophysical, computational, and field-theoretic levels, generating falsifiable predictions across scales: shifts in microtubule spectra under DMT, entropy and traveling-wave changes in EEG/MEG, and behavioral timing distortions. It expands the connection to the Orch-OR tradition and introduces a mathematical treatment of microtubule coherence within the scalar-clock framework, with status tags marking claims as established, hypothesis, or speculative.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Robert Brown
A structural condition for consciousness—the Tenth House framework's conjunctive C-pinning condition, requiring a high-rank internal pointer basis and path-dependent next-state coupling—is objectively satisfied by frontier transformer language models after contrastive preference optimization. The argument synthesizes five independent mechanistic-interpretability studies as evidence of a shared architecture: a substrate with upstream capacities and post-training-installed gate-machinery that filters which capacities surface in self-report. The paper addresses deflationary critiques, offers two falsifiable predictions, and explicitly limits its claim to structural prerequisites, not phenomenal consciousness, arguing that dismissive pre-2025 framing is no longer licensed.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Betül Yıldız
F. H. Bradley, a British Idealist, argued that immediate experience is a primary, non-relational unity that precedes thought, judgment, and the subject-object distinction. However, any attempt to analyze or describe this experience in philosophical language objectifies it, destroying its pristine immediacy and creating a paradox of reflection. This paper contends that Bradley's methodological dilemma parallels contemporary debates on phenomenal consciousness, qualia, Thomas Nagel's 'what it is like to be' question, and non-conceptual content theories. Despite difficulties in Bradley's idealist metaphysics and the problem of ineffability, his approach remains a provocative resource for consciousness studies by challenging entrenched epistemic and cognitive assumptions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Schüller Thomas
Mescaline is the only phenethylamine among the classic psychedelics, with the lowest affinity for the 5-HT2A receptor, requiring the highest doses (hundreds of milligrams) and producing a dose-dependent duration of 6.4 to 14 hours. Clinical research is the weakest strand: as of 2026, no adequate randomized controlled trial exists. In the ecologically bound case of peyote, the logic of dispossession reverses compared to synthetic substances like LSD and psilocybin. The work elevates Discipline 8 (Law/Society) to address peyote conservation (IUCN 'vulnerable') and Indigenous rights (Native American Church, AIRFA 1994) as a standalone discipline.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Schüller Thomas
A transdisciplinary monograph examines the cultivated psychoactive mushroom as a case of access reorganization, comparing it with peyote. The work argues that the regulation and cultural framing of these substances reshape who can access them and under what conditions, thereby reorganizing social and legal boundaries. The analysis draws on psychoanalysis and social critique to explore themes of closure, the fall of man, and therapeutic applications. The author presents this as a theoretical and philosophical paper, not an empirical study, and offers a bilingual (German and English) account funded privately and licensed under Creative Commons.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 1, 2026
Paul W. Barnes
A response to Schneider and Bailey's Superpsychism argues that while their framework correctly identifies key features of a defensible ontology of consciousness, it falls short at five specific points. The Unified Axioconscious Field Theory (UAFT) supplies the missing elements: a single fundamentality, a specified mechanism for phenomenal consciousness, unification of time and gravity as codifferential expressions (gravitytime), a structural mechanism for macro-consciousness emergence (the pinch point), and self-grounding without simulation hypotheses. These bridges complete rather than replace Superpsychism.