This thesis proposes a unified framework integrating five levels of human cognition and perception into a single coherent architecture. It begins where the reader already lives, with the fast and slow processing systems familiar from Kahneman’s dual-process account, and shows that the ego is not a further component of that architecture but the experiential view generated by the sustained...
Near-death experiences occur in ten to twenty percent of cardiac arrest survivors, with a consistent phenomenology across cultures: panoramic life review, out-of-body perception, timelessness, encounter with presence, and a noetic quality subjects describe as more real than ordinary life. Standard explanations (endogenous DMT release, hypoxia, cultural scripting) each account for pieces and...