Understanding how conscious cognition remains stable under uncertainty, conflict, and perturbation requires a framework that links neural dynamics to the geometry of evolving representational states. Here we develop Recursive Informational Curvature (RIC), a neurogeometric framework in which conscious access is modeled as a stability regime of trajectories on a stratified informational...
Aesthetic anhedonia and psychotic hyper-meaning are typically treated within separate explanatory traditions: the former as a deficit of reward and motivation, the latter as a dysregulation of salience and belief formation. Phenomenologically, however, the two conditions display a striking symmetry. In severe anhedonia, patients often report not only reduced pleasure but a pervasive failure of...