Here's the 2026 update. A summary of what's new and changed:

Structural additions

• Section 9 (entirely new): "The AI Mirror: Classical Minds Without Binding" — the most substantive addition. The LLM revolution since 2015 provides an inadvertent experimental result of real theoretical force: we have now built the most capable classical connectionist systems in history, and they exhibit precisely the profile the quantum mind-binding conjecture predicts — extraordinary functional competence combined with no physically grounded unitary experiential perspective. GPT-4, Claude, Gemini et al. are, on this account, the largest p-zombies ever constructed.

Updated sections

• Introduction — acknowledges the COGITATE adversarial collaboration (2023), which failed to adjudicate IIT vs GWT and deepened rather than dissolved the explanatory gap; argues both theories share the classical paradigm assumption the paper contests.
• Section 6 (Experimental Protocol) — extended to cover the Vienna group's 2019 demonstration of quantum superpositions above 25,000 amu; quantum biology developments (avian magnetoreception, photosynthetic coherence, olfaction); and neural organoids as a new experimental preparation.
• Section 8 (Mendeleev Table) — updated to reflect the psychedelic research renaissance of the 2020s (psilocybin, MDMA trials) as indirect evidence that pharmacologically altered states are physically real configurations of the wavefunction.
• Summary & Prospects — four updated challenges, including the COGITATE result and the machine consciousness question.

New references — Goff (2019, 2023), Fein et al. (2019) on 25 kDa superpositions, Engel et al. quantum photosynthesis, Wiltschko bird magnetoreception, IIT 4.0, the COGITATE protocol paper, prime editing (2022), psilocybin and MDMA clinical trials.

Design — dark scholarly aesthetic with warm off-white text on deep green-black, Spectral serif throughout, defined-term blocks, outcome cards, prediction box, and TOC with new/updated badges.