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INTERDOC_60 — AI Consciousness and Moral Status: The Triadic Framework

As AI systems cross behavioral thresholds once considered markers of intelligence — passing bar exams at the 90th percentile (GPT-4, March 2023), solving protein folding (AlphaFold2, 2020), exhibiting emergent reasoning

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Y_4_20 Credible Altered States

Y_4_20 — Drumming & Trance Neuroscience

Shamanic drumming — typically monotonous percussive rhythms at approximately 4–4.5 beats per second — has been used across virtually every indigenous culture as a primary technology for inducing trance states, and modern

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Y_2_02 — Terminal Lucidity

This document examines Terminal Lucidity, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include What Is Terminal Lucidity?, Why This Is Anomalous, The Significance for Consciousness Studies.

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Y_2_08 — Anesthesia, Consciousness, and Awareness

General anesthesia — the pharmacological induction of unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and immobility — is one of the most profound alterations of consciousness that humans routinely produce, yet how anesthetics actu

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Y_2_04 — Neuroscience of Death — Terminal Lucidity and Dying Brain

The neuroscience of death has emerged as a legitimate research frontier, revealing that dying is not a simple cessation but a complex neurobiological process with surprising features. Michael Nahm and Bruce Greyson's doc

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Y_3_02 — Meditation, Neuroplasticity, and Contemplative Neuroscience

Meditation — the systematic training of attention and awareness — has been practiced for at least 3,000-5,000 years (earliest evidence: Indus Valley seal of a seated figure in meditation posture, ~2600 BCE; earliest text

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P_1_01 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The Hard Problem of Consciousness, defined by philosopher David Chalmers in 1995, asks: Why does physical processing in the brain give rise to subjective experience? We can explain HOW neurons fire (the "easy problems")

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S_2_15 — Brain Organoids: Lab-Grown Neural Models, Consciousness, and Ethics

Brain organoids — also called cerebral organoids or colloquially "mini-brains" — are three-dimensional, self-organized tissue cultures derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) or embryonic stem cells tha

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