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...
The phenomenon of near death and dying experiences has been both of popular interest and of scientific speculation. However, the reality of mental perception at the point of death is currently a subjective experience and has not been formally evaluated. While postmortem gene expression, even in humans, has been evaluated, restoration of postmortem brain activity has heretofore only been...
What is the role of consciousness in volition and decision-making? Are our actions fully determined by brain activity preceding our decisions to act, or can consciousness instead affect the brain activity leading to action? This has been much debated in philosophy, but also in science since the famous experiments by Libet in the 1980s, where the current most common interpretation is that...