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K_3_02 Consciousness

K_3_02 — Embodied Cognition

Embodied cognition is a broad research program challenging the classical cognitive science view that the mind is essentially a computer processing abstract symbols in the brain. Instead, embodied cognition holds that thi

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K_2_02 Consciousness

K_2_02 — Phantom Limb, Body Schema, and Embodied Consciousness

Phantom limb phenomena — the vivid perception of a limb that has been amputated — provide a unique window into the neural construction of bodily self-awareness and the relationship between consciousness and embodiment. F

phantom limb body schema V.S. Ramachandran mirror box therapy rubber hand illusion proprioception
T_5_03 Psychology & Social

T_5_03 — Embodied and Social Cognition

Embodied cognition challenges the classical computational model of mind (cognition as abstract symbol manipulation, independent of the body) by proposing that cognitive processes are fundamentally shaped by the body's ph

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K_1_13 Credible Consciousness

K_1_13 — Enactivism: Consciousness Through Action and Interaction

Enactivism is a radical approach to cognition and consciousness that rejects the traditional computational model of the mind (the brain as information-processing computer operating on internal representations of the exte

enactivism embodied cognition autopoiesis sense-making Varela Thompson
K_4_13 Verified Consciousness

K_4_13 — Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition

Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, first discovered in the early 1990s in the premotor cortex (area F5) of macaque monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, and colleagues at the University of Parma, that fire

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K_1_06 Consciousness

K_1_06 — Predictive Processing and Consciousness

Predictive processing (PP) is a unifying framework in cognitive neuroscience proposing that the brain is fundamentally a prediction machine — it continuously generates top-down predictions of incoming sensory input and u

predictive processing predictive coding Bayesian brain Karl Friston Andy Clark Jakob Hohwy
K_5_03 Consciousness

K_5_03 — Psychosomatic Medicine and Mind–Body Interaction

Psychosomatic medicine investigates the bidirectional relationship between psychological processes and physical health — how mental states, emotions, beliefs, and social contexts influence bodily disease, and how physica

psychosomatic medicine mind-body interaction somatization functional somatic syndromes psychoneuroimmunology PNI
K_5_01 Consciousness

K_5_01 — Neurophenomenology and First-Person Science

Neurophenomenology — the research program proposed by Francisco Varela (1996) — seeks to bridge the "explanatory gap" between objective neuroscience and subjective experience by integrating rigorous first-person phenomen

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Credible

INTERDOC_32 — AI, Consciousness, and the Ethical Frontier

[KEY FINDING] The alignment problem — ensuring that artificial intelligence systems pursue goals aligned with human values — has moved from science fiction to mainstream AI safety research. Stuart Russell (Human Compatib

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Y_4_12 Verified Altered States

Y_4_12 — Psychosomatic Phenomena and the Placebo Effect

Psychosomatic phenomena — bodily changes produced by mental states — and the placebo effect — measurable physiological improvements following inert treatment — demonstrate that consciousness and belief can directly affec

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P_1_08 Philosophy & Meaning

P_1_08 — Philosophy of Mind and the Body Problem

The mind-body problem — how do mental states (thoughts, feelings, consciousness) relate to physical states (neurons, brains, bodies)? — is one of the oldest and most intractable problems in philosophy. Descartes (1641) f

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P_5_01 Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_01 — Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

One of the oldest and most consequential questions in philosophy: Does mathematics exist independently of human minds (Platonism), or is it a human invention — a language we construct to describe patterns (formalism/cons

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