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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
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INTERDOC_71 — The NDE Paradox: Consciousness Without Neural Activity & Substrate Independence
The near-death experience (NDE) paradox is the question of whether subjective phenomenology reported during cardiac arrest reflects (a) post-hoc reconstruction during recovery, (b) hidden residual neural activity not cap
INTERDOC_66 — Information Persistence Through Catastrophic Events
Three apparently unrelated phenomena share a deep structural feature:
W_4_06 — Dreamtime Songlines and Aboriginal Navigation
Songlines (also called dreaming tracks or song paths) are one of humanity's most extraordinary intellectual achievements — a vast network of songs that simultaneously encode mythological narrative, geographic navigation
C_4_05 — Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Synthesis
This document examines Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Synthesis, a topic within the Global Traditions research area. Key areas of investigation include The Deep Time Record, Diversity — Not "A Culture" but a Continent o
C_3_01 — Global Flood Stories
Over 500 independent flood traditions exist worldwide, spanning Mesopotamian, Biblical, Hindu, Chinese, Greek, Aboriginal, Mesoamerican, and dozens of other cultures. The oldest written accounts — the Sumerian Eridu Gene
C_2_05 — India Naga Traditions (Comprehensive Dossier)
This document examines India Naga Traditions (Comprehensive Dossier), a topic within the Global Traditions research area. The analysis spans topics including ** Naga, Nāga, Shesha, Vasuki, Takshaka. Notable findings incl
Z_2_23 — Immune System & Immunology
The immune system is a multi-layered defense network that protects organisms against pathogens including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. It comprises two interconnected arms: innate immunity, which provides rapi
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,
K_4_04 — Morphic Resonance and Sheldrake's Hypothesis
Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake (b. 1942, Cambridge-trained plant physiologist) that proposes nature operates by habits, not fixed laws, and that organisms and systems are influen
K_4_20 — Non-Neural Learning: Slime Molds, Plants, Bacterial Adaptation
Learning — modifying behavior based on experience — was long thought to require a nervous system. The last twenty years of basal-cognition research have empirically falsified this assumption. Single-celled slime molds (P
K_2_05 — Unconscious Processing
The cognitive unconscious — mental processes that influence behavior, emotion, and decision-making without reaching conscious awareness — is one of the most empirically robust phenomena in psychology and neuroscience. Fa
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
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
K_2_11 — Default Mode Network: Brain at Rest and Self-Referential Consciousness
The Default Mode Network (DMN) is a large-scale brain network that is most active when a person is not focused on the external environment — during mind-wandering, daydreaming, self-referential thought, autobiographical
K_5_08 — Metacognition: Thinking About Thinking
Metacognition — literally "cognition about cognition" or "thinking about thinking" — refers to the human capacity to monitor, evaluate, and regulate one's own cognitive processes. When you realize you don't understand a
ZG_2_08 — Etymology and Historical Word Origins
Etymology is the study of the origin, history, and changing meanings of words — tracing the life of a word from its earliest attested form (or its reconstructed proto-form) through the centuries of sound change, semantic
ZG_4_06 — Multilingualism and Bilingual Cognition
Multilingualism — the use of two or more languages by an individual or community — is the global norm, not the exception: at least half the world's population is bilingual or multilingual, and monolingualism is a relativ
Q_1_14 — Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant Problem
The cosmological constant problem is widely regarded as the most severe fine-tuning problem in all of physics. Quantum field theory predicts that the vacuum of spacetime is not empty but seethes with zero-point fluctuati
INTERDOC_53 — Substrate-Independent Information Patterns: Empirical Cases
A pattern is empirically substrate-independent if the same information content is preserved across changes in the physical material carrying it. Across multiple domains, biology and physics provide concrete instances of
INTERDOC_59 — Intergenerational Trauma: A Three-Channel Synthesis (Epigenetic, Psychological, Cultural)
Trauma is empirically heritable — but not through any single mechanism. The dominant public framing (epigenetics-as-Lamarckism) is overconfident; the dominant academic counter-framing (it's all attachment / it's all cult
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