Consciousness: The Land Space treats the hard problem as an unsolved Wall: a missing operator that would identify the physical grammar (neurons, third-person, structural) with the experiential grammar (qualia, first-person, felt) -- 'that isomorphism is not yet found.' This paper argues the search fails for a specific, correctable reason: the physical grammar, as usually formalized, is...
Depressive rumination — defined by Nolen-Hoeksema as repetitive, passive focus on symptoms of distress and their possible causes and consequences — is a cognitive wrong attractor W_rumination in which the mind cycles through negative self-referential content without generating problem resolution or emotional regulation. We apply the Displacement Framework to formalize depressive rumination. The...
We apply the Displacement Framework to awe and wonder, identifying awe as the exception that proves the rule: a positive displacement that expands the ground state rather than depleting it. After awe, S0_new contains S0_old (the ground state has grown). Seven formal propositions plus the Accommodation Theorem and Awe Paradox are derived. The Accommodation Theorem formalizes Piaget's...
We apply the Displacement Framework to dissociation and dissociative disorders, formalizing the self-continuity ground state S°_self across four axes: narrative continuity (memory connects past to present), bodily continuity (embodied presence), emotional continuity (feelings owned and felt), and identity continuity (stable sense of who one is). Nine formal propositions are derived covering:...