This paper investigates a fundamental paradox within neuroscience and the philosophy of consciousness: why does a failing visual cortex during a migraine aura produce not darkness, but a brilliant, structured, and luminous scotoma? The conventional materialist explanation holds that Cortical Spreading Depression (CSD) generates this light through spontaneous excitation. This paper demonstrates,...
How Consciousness Introduces Presentism into an Eternalist Spacetime: Ego Dissolution as Presentism-Dissolution The special theory of relativity strongly suggests that the default ontological structure of the universe is eternalist: a four-dimensional block spacetime in which past, present, and future coexist. Yet our lived experience is overwhelmingly presentist. We experience time as a...