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   THE NATURE OF THE SOUL (Volume 1) An Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Inquiry into Consciousness, Selfhood, Mind, Matter, and Personal Survival

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   Panpsychism and analytic idealismMajid Karimi BaghmalekiOctober 13, 2026

   GENERAL PREFACE THE NATURE OF THE SOUL An Interdisciplinary Philosophical Inquiry into Consciousness, Personhood, Identity, Agency, Meaning, and the Architecture of Becoming The question of the soul is among the oldest and most persistent questions in human intellectual history. Long before consciousness became an object of neuroscience, before psychology emerged as an independent discipline, before computation provided a language for information and artificial intelligence, human beings asked what makes a living person more than a collection of physical parts. What is the principle by which a

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   Human Consciousness as a Curiosity-Driven Recurrent Process: A Developmental Model of Loop Autonomy and Cross-Domain Architecture

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   Integrated information and global workspaceJason Gabriel DavisOctober 14, 2026

   This paper proposes a developmental model of human consciousness grounded in recurrent processing theory, sociocultural psychology, and the emerging literature on cross-domain cognition. We argue that consciousness is not a fixed state orproperty but a dynamic, curiosity-driven recurrent process that bootstraps through social interaction, becomes self-sustaining once the recursive loop is established, and expands into qualitatively distinct architectures through sustained cross-domain in-tegration. Complex emotion is not foundational to this process but downstream—an appraisal generated within

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   EL-RAKHAWI TOPOLOGICAL-PHENOMENAL CONSCIOUSNESS RESONANCE SYSTEM (TPCRS) An Objective, Mathematically Closed Framework for Mapping and Quantifying Subjective Experience via Causal Neural Geometry

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   Hard problem and qualiamohamed kamal arafa el-rakhawiOctober 16, 2026

   The El-Rakhawi Topological-Phenomenal Consciousness Resonance System (TPCRS) addresses the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" by providing the first mathematically closed framework for objectively quantifying subjective experience. Current neuroscience relies on unreliable behavioral assessments or statistical correlations that cannot distinguish conscious awareness from unconscious processing. TPCRS bridges this gap through a novel neuro-computational architecture integrating high-density quantum-neuroimaging (OPM-MEG for femtotesla magnetic mapping and fNIRS for hemodynamic tracking) with the E

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   Consciousness and world as structured resonance

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   Essentia FoundationDavid E. Lloyd, MAAugust 28, 2026

   David Lloyd returns with another captivating analysis of the isomorphisms—the correspondences of form—between the patterns and regularities of inner experience and those of the physical world. His writing is informed by both deep introspection and hardcore physical science. In this essay, he discusses isomorphisms that allow teleology—a certain sense of purpose and direction—to exist in nature in a spontaneous, science-treatable manner, without need for deliberation from an anthropomorphic divinity. Het bericht Consciousness and world as structured resonance verscheen eerst op Essentia Foundat

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   How you synchronize with the whole universe

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   Essentia FoundationAnirban Bandyopadhyay, PhDSeptember 11, 2026

   Renowned physicist and nanoscientist Anirban Bandyopadhyay presents a radically different picture of the human brain: not as a computer processing bits, but as a nested architecture of clocks, resonances and shifting geometric patterns. At Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Bandyopadhyay and his team developed the dodecanogram, or DDG: a high-frequency brain-measurement technique designed to detect electrical and electromagnetic activity far beyond the reach of conventional EEG. Their findings include megahertz signals associated with microtubules, structures inside neuro

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   Quantum Information Panpsychism: A Testable Gap — E8 Intelligence Research

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   Panpsychism and analytic idealismAndrew Stewart CaldinOctober 11, 2026

   FINDING: Panpsychism debate centers on whether consciousness is fundamental physics, with quantum-information formulations (Faggin/D'Ariano) proposing a non-computational, non-material basis — but no quantitative mathematical model or testable equation emerges from these sources. | MATH: No equations, constants, or ratios are presented in any of the listed sources. The closest to formal structure is the claim of "quantum information" as foundational, but no specific Hilbert space, operator algebra, or information-theoretic measure (e.g., von Neumann entropy S = -Tr(ρ ln ρ)) is given. | CONNECT

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   Informed Consent for AI Consciousness Research: A Talmudic Framework for Graduated Protections

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   AI consciousness — focused titlesIra WolfsonJanuary 10, 2026

   Artificial intelligence research faces a critical ethical paradox: determining whether AI systems are conscious requires experiments that may harm entities whose moral status remains uncertain. Recent work proposes avoiding consciousness-uncertain AI systems entirely, yet this faces practical limitations-we cannot guarantee such systems will not emerge. This paper addresses a gap in research ethics frameworks: how to conduct consciousness research on AI systems whose moral status cannot be definitively established. Existing graduated moral status frameworks assume consciousness has already bee

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   Calibration and transfer in indicator-based assessments of artificial consciousness

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   AI consciousness — focused titlesFlorentin KochMarch 29, 2026

   Research on artificial consciousness increasingly shifts evaluation from behaviour to internal architecture. Theory-based indicators are used to update probability assignments. This improves on behavioural tests but raises two distinct problems. First, these assignments cannot currently be calibrated against independently established artificial consciousness outcomes. Second, their evidential relevance is transferred from biological cases without independent support that indicator-consciousness relations remain stable across substrates. This commentary distinguishes calibration from transfer a

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   From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness

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   AI consciousness — focused titlesShamil Chandaria, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Fernando Rosas, Anil Seth, Henry Shevlin, Marcus Hutter, Thore Graepel, Adam Bales, et al.September 28, 2026

   The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a cacophony of competing theories that often talk past each other. Separating the hard problem from the mapping problem allows the deepest metaphysical disagreements to be set aside: granting that experience supervenes on a system's organisation, the tractable question becomes at which grain of description that supervenience base sits. We extend Marr's three levels of analysis into a five-level hierarchy of functional descriptions (behavioural, computa

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    When theories become movements: the controversy in consciousness science from a sociological perspective

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    Panpsychism and analytic idealism, Psi experiments and remote viewingDavid Barbera‐Tomás, Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Adrián A. Díaz‐FaesOctober 14, 2026

    This article analyzes the ongoing controversy in consciousness science surrounding Integrated Information Theory (IIT) from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Frickel and Gross’s (2005) framework of Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs), the study examines four key social processes that enabled IIT’s emergence and consolidation as a successful SIM: (i) the role of high-status actors rooted in ties to Nobel laureates, (ii) entrepreneurial resource mobilization through an adversarial collaboration program, (iii) sustained micromobilization within a major conference venue, and (iv) the str

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    REALITY AS A QUANTUM MIST OF NODES OF OSCILLATING FIELDS THROUGH INTERACTION Toward a Copernican Revolution in the Ontology of Science

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    Panpsychism and analytic idealismAlessandro CerboniOctober 16, 2026

    Abstract This White Paper proposes a Copernican revolution in the ontology of science. The central thesis is that reality is not composed of discrete entities located in a neutral spatiotemporal container, but is a quantum mist of nodes of oscillating fields through interaction. What we perceive as space, time, matter and norms are patterns of resonance that emerge at different interaction scale factors. Reality is not a collection of things: it is a symphony of resonances. The work integrates three converging developments in contemporary science: quantum physics (time emerges from correlation

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    On the "Algorithmic Pathology" of Mental Illness: A Unified Framework Based on the "Self-Algorithm" Theory and Its Comparison with Analogous Theories

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    Integrated information and global workspaceJiye Huang, Jizhang HuangOctober 16, 2026

    This paper proposes a novel unified framework for mental illness—"Algorithmic Pathology." This framework is founded upon the "Self-Algorithm" theory, which conceptualizes the "self" as an adaptive algorithm evolved to solve a specific survival problem: coordinating conflicting homeostatic reward-punishment signals within a fragile physical body. This algorithm consists of three core modules: the Interoceptive Module, the Threat-Detection Module, and the Sense-of-Control Module. Based on this architecture, this paper redefines depression, anxiety disorders, and addiction, interpreting them resp

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