Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 23, 2026
Vassilis Papathanasiou
Psychotherapy depends on language, but its nature is rarely examined deeply. This paper argues that different therapy traditions hold incompatible views of language—from psychoanalysis seeing it as bodily inscription of enjoyment (jouissance), to phenomenology treating it as embodied gesture, to pragmatist views of language as action (speech acts, language games). The paper maps how each tradition uses language: interpretation in classical psychoanalysis, semantic correction in CBT, performative acts in speech-act theory, being-in-the-world in existential therapy, narrative identity construction, intercorporeal attunement in somatic therapies, and as dispensable in contemplative approaches. These views rest on conflicting assumptions about language and body. A unified account requires a post-representationalist theory of language as both action that creates worlds and material event that marks the body.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 23, 2026
Oleg V. Yermakov
Human perception is split between two distinct modes of seeing: external sight (the eyes) and internal, existential sight (the heart), with the mind acting as a separating layer. This fragmentation defines the human condition. In contrast, non-human or cosmic beings experience an integrated form of perception where vision and cognition form a single, direct relation to reality. The model draws on comparative mythology, Homeric, Biblical, and Platonic motifs, and contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The work is a speculative metaphysical framework, not an empirically testable theory.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 23, 2026
Oleg V. Yermakov
The work presents a speculative metaphysical anthropology that reinterprets the eye not as a biological organ but as an ontological interface between consciousness and the Universe. It distinguishes between two types of anthropic beings: the “earthling,” who perceives through fragmented rational vision, and the “cosmite,” who possesses integral cosmic vision. Vision is redefined as a fundamental act of being, where seeing and thinking converge into ontological participation in reality. The eye becomes a “well of consciousness” through which the Universe contemplates itself. Language, perception, and cosmology are unified into a single symbolic system, offering a mythopoetic model rather than an empirically verifiable theory.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 22, 2026
Gary Flugge
The Recursive Attractor Framework (RAF) proposes that phenomenal consciousness is identical to a specific class of recursive electromagnetic field attractors in the brain, not merely correlated with them. The framework defines four necessary conditions and five measurable criteria, including a diagnostic Recursion Index computable from EEG data. Version 8 retires a previously reported significant result (p=0.039) as a bug artifact after identifying two compounding errors; the corrected analysis yielded p=0.9700. New preliminary results show Lempel-Ziv complexity (S(t)) from a ketamine dataset was higher in 9 of 10 subjects under ketamine than wakefulness (p=0.0098, Cohen's d=0.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 22, 2026
Vedanta 20. Agyat Agyabi
Transformative discovery arises not from accumulating knowledge or reacting to stimuli, but from states of observation where conditioned identity temporarily dissolves, enabling unprecedented cognitive integration and creative emergence. The ZenPodo framework proposes that desire, cognition, creativity, and behavior are not centrally manufactured by an independent self but are dynamically emergent processes from interactions among perception, memory, biology, environmental stimuli, and non-reactive awareness. It distinguishes repetitive derived impulses from rare Primary Creative Emergence capable of transforming human civilization, integrating neurophenomenology, behavioral self-regulation, cognitive emergence theory, contemplative observation, and creative consciousness studies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 22, 2026
Hans-Joachim Rudolph
Reality is not merely factual actuality but a structured open process where actuality emerges from potentiality without eliminating it. Observability is an epistemic mode of disclosure within a richer physical organization, not an ontological boundary. Consciousness arises where openness, selective stabilization, resonance, integration, self-reference, and centering generate a stable inner domain; it is neither a universal property nor a miraculous emergence. Reality may be intrinsically open to experience without being experiential at its most basic level. Meditative and spiritual experiences can be profound and transformative but do not establish final metaphysical ontology; the structure of experience is not automatically the structure of reality. Open realism treats observability, consciousness, healing, and spiritual meaning as modes of disclosure within possibility space.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 21, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Reports of awareness without content, ego, or subject-object structure converge across contemplative traditions, 5-MeO-DMT administration, and near-death experiences. This convergence poses a structural challenge beyond the hard problem: dominant physicalist models presuppose the subject-object architecture that these reports describe as absent. The essay finds that the most rigorous physicalist accommodation preserves its framework by reinterpreting the phenomenology rather than explaining it. The experience carries a transformative signature—those who encounter it stop treating awareness as dependent on its contents—a shift following from the phenomenological structure itself, not from emotional intensity or cultural expectation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 21, 2026
Elliot Allan
Traditional psychoactive plant ceremonies across 11 indigenous traditions on five continents show a near-perfect log–log correlation (r = 0.977) between ceremony duration and the pharmacokinetic duration of the active compounds, spanning seven pharmacological classes including DMT, mescaline, psilocybin, ergolines, salvinorin, ibogaine, and GABA-A-active compounds. A catalogue of 118 Amazonian admixture plants reveals that pharmacologically active species cluster at the extremes of purpose observability, while candidate plants concentrate in the middle. Agent-based simulations indicate that guided iterative search, not random trial-and-error, could realistically discover the DMT plus MAO-I combination within centuries to millennia in the Amazonian flora.
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
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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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 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
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 2, 2026
Wouter Hanegraaff
The text is a scholarly paper presented at a congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, published in a volume on Western esotericism and the science of religion. It addresses the relationship between Western esotericism and the academic study of religion, likely arguing for the recognition of esotericism as a legitimate field within religious studies or examining its historical and theoretical intersections with the discipline. The paper contributes to the discourse on how esotericism has been marginalized and how it can be integrated into the broader history of religions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 2, 2026
Wouter Hanegraaff
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