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K_3_02 Credible 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_3_05 Credible Consciousness

K_3_05 — Extended Mind and Cognitive Extension

The extended mind thesis (EMT), proposed by Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their landmark 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," argues that cognitive processes need not be confined within the skull — external objects, tools,

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K_3_16 Verified Consciousness

K_3_16 — Anesthesia and Consciousness: What Going Under Reveals

General anesthesia provides a unique experimental window into consciousness: the ability to reversibly abolish and restore awareness in a controlled clinical setting. Despite over 175 years of practice since William T.G.

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K_3_15 Verified Consciousness

K_3_15 — Anesthesia and the Mechanisms of Consciousness Loss

General anesthesia — the reversible abolition of consciousness through pharmacological agents — is one of the most remarkable phenomena in medicine: it routinely eliminates subjective experience in millions of patients d

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K_3_12 Verified Consciousness

K_3_12 — Blindsight and Unconscious Vision: Seeing Without Awareness

Blindsight is a neurological phenomenon in which individuals who are cortically blind — having lost conscious visual experience in part or all of their visual field due to damage to the primary visual cortex (V1/striate

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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

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K_1_15 Credible Consciousness

K_1_15 — Consciousness–Genetics Interface

Genetic variation significantly modulates conscious experience, including baseline personality, susceptibility to altered states, response to psychoactive substances, meditation capacity, and vulnerability to disorders o

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K_4_05 Credible Consciousness

K_4_05 — Synchronicity, Meaningful Coincidence, and Acausal Connection

Synchronicity—defined by Carl Jung as "meaningful coincidence with no causal connection"—represents one of the most provocative concepts at the intersection of psychology, physics, and philosophy. Developed through Jung'

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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_4_03 Credible Consciousness

K_4_03 — Limitation of Consciousness Motif

One of the most startling cross-cultural patterns in the world's mythological and philosophical traditions: ancient civilizations worldwide — separated by thousands of miles, thousands of years, and entirely independent

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K_4_07 Verified Consciousness

K_4_07 — Biofield Science — Electromagnetic and Subtle Energy Research

Biofield science investigates the electromagnetic, acoustic, and hypothesized "subtle energy" fields associated with living organisms, spanning a spectrum from rigorous biophysics to highly contested alternative medicine

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K_4_11 Verified Consciousness

K_4_11 — Collective Consciousness & the Collective Unconscious

Collective consciousness — whether framed as Durkheim's sociological construct, Jung's archetypal collective unconscious, or ancient concepts like the Akashic Records and the Noosphere — describes a shared psychic field

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K_2_20 Verified Consciousness

K_2_20 — Savant Syndrome — Neuroscience of Extraordinary Ability

Savant syndrome — the coexistence of extraordinary ability in a specific domain with significant cognitive disability or neurodevelopmental condition — was first described medically by J. Langdon Down (the physician who

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K_2_06 Credible Consciousness

K_2_06 — Neurofeedback and Brain Training

Neurofeedback — the real-time display of brain activity (typically EEG) to enable individuals to learn self-regulation of neural dynamics through operant conditioning — has been investigated since the pioneering work of

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K_2_14 Verified Consciousness

K_2_14 — Brain Lateralization and Consciousness: The Divided Brain

Hemispheric lateralization — the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres — is one of the most robust findings in neuroscience and has profound implications for understanding consciousness. The left hemi

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K_2_09 Verified Consciousness

K_2_09 — Neuroscience of Free Will

The neuroscience of free will centers on experiments testing whether conscious intention precedes or follows the neural preparation for action. Benjamin Libet's landmark 1983 experiments showed that the brain's "readines

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K_5_10 Credible Consciousness

K_5_10 — Theories of Self: No-Self, Minimal Self, Narrative Self

The self — the sense of being a unified, continuous subject of experience — is one of the most fundamental yet puzzling features of consciousness. Who or what is the "I" that sees, thinks, remembers, and acts? Theories o

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K_5_06 Verified Consciousness

K_5_06 — Dreaming and Consciousness: Why We Dream

Dreaming — the experience of structured hallucinatory consciousness during sleep — is one of the most remarkable features of the human mind and a central challenge for any theory of consciousness. Every night, for a tota

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K_5_18 Verified Consciousness

K_5_18 — Working Memory: Cognitive Architecture and Executive Function

Working memory (WM) is the cognitive system responsible for temporarily holding and manipulating information during complex tasks such as reasoning, language comprehension, and decision-making. Distinguished from passive

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K_5_14 Credible Consciousness

K_5_14 — Buddhist Abhidharma and the Analysis of Consciousness

The Abhidharma (Sanskrit: "higher teaching," Pali: Abhidhamma) represents Buddhism's systematic attempt to analyze consciousness into its fundamental components — one of the most detailed pre-modern phenomenological fram

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