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Alfredo López Parra

4 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026

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Emergent flow theory: autonomic coherence as a gain parameter for the temporal architecture of conscious integration

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience September 18, 2026 Alfredo López Parra

Contemporary neuroscientific theories of consciousness—including Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNW), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and the Predictive Processing/Free Energy Principle (PP/FEP)—have not formalized autonomic and neuromodulatory state as explicit dynamic control parameters within models of conscious integration. This gap constitutes the explanatory niche addressed by the...

Consciousness emerges from temporal integration across biological scales: from cellular memory to phenomenological experience.

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2026 Alfredo López Parra

Consciousness remains one of the central challenges in contemporary neuroscience, in part due to the absence of an explicit framework describing the temporal constraints required for integrative processing. While influential models such as Integrated Information Theory and the Free Energy Principle characterize structural and functional aspects of conscious systems, they remain largely agnostic...

DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2026.1772467 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Emergent flow theory Libet paradigm Basal coherence Bioelectric signaling +4

Ontology and Teleology of Emergent Flow Theory (TFE): A Panpsychic View of Existence

Journal of Posthumanism June 10, 2025 Alfredo López Parra

The Emergent Flow Theory (EFT) is presented as an integrative proposal that articulates the foundations of quantum physics, neuroscience and philosophy of mind to address the phenomenon of consciousness from an inverse emergent panpsychic vision. Faced with the limitations of reductionist materialism and unfalsifiable idealism, EFT postulates that consciousness is not an exclusive property of...

Emergent Flow of Consciousness (TFE) Theory Sum - Cognito- Ergo

Journal of Ecohumanism March 5, 2025 Alfredo López Parra

The Emergent Flow Theory proposes that consciousness arises from the interaction between energy and matter at all levels of existence, giving order and meaning to this relationship. This process allows complex systems, such as the brain, to integrate electrical information into neural networks and transform it into subjective psychic information, experienced as an "I." By combining advances in...