Samson Odan
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The human brain, a highly complex dynamical system, exhibits various states of consciousness—such as wakefulness, sleep, and altered states—each characterized by distinct patterns of neural activity. To capture the dynamical properties of these states, a range of complexity measures is utilized, with a primary focus on Statistical Complexity (SC) and Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZc), and...
Nabaghan Ojha
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The study of consciousness continues to confront the "hard problem"-the unresolved gap between physical processes and subjective experience. Prevailing scientific paradigms, grounded in matter-first ontologies, often reduce consciousness to emergent neural or computational phenomena. Yet such approaches struggle to account for qualia, first-person awareness, and observer-dependent realities...
Mulat Tazebew
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This paper explores what neuroscience and psychology tell us about who we really are and whether we truly control our own actions. For centuries, humans have assumed that a unified "self" exists inside each person-a kind of inner commander making decisions and directing behavior. But a growing body of scientific evidence challenges this picture. Brain research shows that much of what we think,...
Carlos Daniel Lopez Cruz
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Rather than proceed with a typical presentation of well-trodden ground and having attempted to corner the subject of interest, this attempt to unmask the subject reveals (with deference to Mystery Inc.) that there was no ghoul, nor ghost, nor any such ethereal thing beneath the grotesque mask. Indeed, the hard problem of consciousness dissolves when we recognize that phenomenal experience is...
Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr
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Near-death experiences (NDEs) and reports of memories of previous lives have traditionally been investigated as separate categories of exceptional human experience. NDE research primarily examines experiences occurring during or around episodes of severe physiological crisis, whereas reincarnation research has focused particularly on young children who spontaneously report memories apparently...
Xiaodong Luo
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Where did “we” come from? How did our self-consciousness come to be? This great mystery has puzzled philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. This study applies cognitive-behavioral experiments and deductive reasoning to demonstrate that the brain’s conscious reaction was induced in the animal ancestor of humans to undergo continuous, leap-like changes under the repetitive stimulation...
Shane Hillard
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Recognitive Consciousness (RC) is a mathematically grounded, empirically testable, and substrate-independent theory of consciousness based on operator-algebraic recognition. RC defines consciousness as the structural capacity for recognition, formalized as an Ω-preserving conditional expectation between perspectives. From this primitive, RC derives a continuous order parameter κ,...
Mario Enrique Medina
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This study develops the concept of Connective Trance as a relational-operational state of consciousness recurrently enacted in the history of painting. Rather than treating artistic styles as isolated formal systems, the essay proposes that diverse painters have entered intensified perceptual conditions in which body, gesture, material, and pictorial field operate as a unified dynamic...
Mario Enrique Medina
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This paper presents the theoretical background and the first experimental approximation to the concept of *Connective Trance*, an aesthetic and sensory state that aims to reestablish the dynamic relationship between perception, body, and artwork. Drawing from phenomenology, complexity theory, and analytical psychology, the study proposes that art can function as a connective field between...
Mario Enrique Medina
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This article examines a subtle yet recurrent perceptual phenomenon observed in creative subjects immediately prior to artistic action: a transformation of the gaze. Rather than indicating distraction or dissociation, this altered gaze is proposed as a pre-performative state intrinsic to what the author conceptualizes as Connective Trance. The study argues that the gaze functions as an early,...