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Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence

3,721 Documents 34 Sections 43,625 Citations 34,852 Keywords Indexed 4 Evidence Tiers

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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K_1_04 Credible Consciousness

K_1_04 — Brain as Filter vs Generator

Two opposing models have dominated the consciousness debate for over a century:

filter theory reducing valve brain as receiver brain as generator William James Aldous Huxley
K_4_18 Verified Consciousness

K_4_18 — Near-Death Experiences: Evidence, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Debate

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences reported by approximately 10–20% of cardiac arrest survivors, characterized by feelings of peace, tunnel vision, life review, encounters with deceased pers

near-death experience NDE cardiac arrest consciousness out-of-body AWARE study
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

biofield biophotons Fritz-Albert Popp Robert Becker body electric Harold Saxton Burr
K_4_02 Verified Consciousness

K_4_02 — Stigmata, Faith Healing, and Psychosomatic Phenomena

The human body can do things under the influence of belief that should not be physically possible according to conventional medical models. The placebo effect — a "sugar pill" producing measurable physiological changes —

stigmata faith healing psychosomatic placebo effect nocebo spontaneous remission
K_4_09 Credible Consciousness

K_4_09 — Consciousness, Virtual Reality, and Simulated Environments

Virtual reality (VR) has become one of the most powerful tools for investigating the construction of conscious experience — particularly body ownership, self-location, embodiment, spatial presence, and the boundaries of

virtual reality consciousness VR presence rubber hand illusion body ownership Botvinick Cohen virtual body ownership
ZG_3_05 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_05 — Language and Thought: Cognitive Semantics

The relationship between language and thought — whether the language we speak shapes, constrains, or determines how we perceive, categorize, and reason about the world — is one of the oldest and most debated questions in

linguistic relativity Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cognitive semantics Lakoff conceptual metaphor image schema
ZG_3_12 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_12 — Metaphor Theory: Lakoff, Blending, and Figurative Language as Cognition

Metaphor theory — the study of how figurative language works and what it reveals about human thought — underwent a revolutionary transformation in the late 20th century with the publication of George Lakoff and Mark John

metaphor conceptual metaphor theory CMT Lakoff Johnson source domain
Q_2_10 Verified Cosmology & Physics

Q_2_10 — Cosmic Voids and Large-Scale Structure

Cosmic voids are the most voluminous structures in the universe — vast, roughly spherical regions of space spanning 20–300 Mpc (65–1,000 million light-years) that contain far fewer galaxies than average. Together with fi

cosmic void large-scale structure galaxy survey cosmic web void galaxy Boötes void
Q_3_10 Verified Cosmology & Physics

Q_3_10 — Tidal Forces, Roche Limits, and Orbital Mechanics

Tidal forces — differential gravitational pulls across an extended body — and orbital mechanics — the motion of objects under gravitational influence — are fundamental physical phenomena governing everything from Earth's

tidal force Roche limit orbital mechanics Kepler laws two-body problem three-body problem
Verified

INTERDOC_77 — Virtual Reality as a Consciousness Laboratory: What the Self Reveals When You Move Its Walls

The foundational insight from two decades of VR consciousness research is deceptively simple: the brain does not receive reality — it votes on what is most probably real. When VR provides sensory evidence that overrides

virtual reality consciousness body ownership self-location rubber hand illusion full body illusion Mel Slater
Credible

INTERDOC_22 — Near-Death Experience, Afterlife Belief, and Cross-Cultural Evidence

[KEY FINDING] The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study — a four-year prospective study across 15 hospitals in the UK, US, and Austria, led by Sam Parnia (published 2014, Resuscitation) — found that 39% of 140 car

near-death experience NDE afterlife out-of-body experience cardiac arrest AWARE study
ZB_2_12 Verified Ecology & Biology

ZB_2_12 — Biological Scaling and Allometry

Allometry — the study of how biological characteristics scale with body size — reveals some of the most universal quantitative laws in biology. From bacteria to blue whales, spanning 21 orders of magnitude in body mass,

allometry biological scaling metabolic scaling Kleiber's law quarter-power scaling three-quarter power
ZB_2_06 Verified Ecology & Biology

ZB_2_06 — Immune System Evolution: From Innate to Adaptive Defense

The immune system represents one of evolution's most complex adaptive innovations — a multi-layered defense system that distinguishes self from non-self and remembers past encounters. All multicellular organisms possess

immune system innate immunity adaptive immunity T cell B cell antibody
ZB_2_22 Verified Ecology & Biology

ZB_2_22 — Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, and Regeneration

Bioelectricity — the endogenous electrical signaling produced by all living cells through ion channels, pumps, and gap junctions — has emerged as a fundamental layer of biological information processing that operates alo

bioelectricity bioelectric signaling morphogenesis regeneration Michael Levin Robert Becker
ZC_4_05 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_05 — Tourism, Heritage, and the Anthropology of Sacred Sites

The anthropology of tourism and heritage examines how places, objects, and practices are designated as culturally significant, how they are consumed by visitors, and who controls the narratives, profits, and meanings at

tourism heritage sacred site pilgrimage UNESCO World Heritage
G_1_08 Verified Modern Frameworks

G_1_08 — Machine Learning in Archaeology — Pattern Recognition in the Past

Machine learning (ML) — the subset of artificial intelligence in which algorithms learn patterns from data rather than being explicitly programmed — is transforming archaeological practice across every stage of research:

machine learning artificial intelligence deep learning neural network convolutional neural network CNN
O_2_06 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_2_06 — Richat Structure — Saharan Eye and Atlantis Claims

The Richat Structure (also called the Eye of the Sahara or Guelb er Richat) is a prominent circular geological formation approximately 40–50 km in diameter located on the Adrar Plateau in west-central Mauritania (21°07′N

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O_3_02 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_3_02 — Sacred Water: Wells, Springs, and Purification Rites

Water occupies a unique position in human religious experience — simultaneously the substance of creation (primordial waters from which the cosmos emerged), the medium of purification (baptism, mikveh, wuḍūʾ), the portal

sacred water holy well sacred spring purification baptism mikveh
T_2_06 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_06 — Health Psychology and Stress

Health psychology investigates how psychological, behavioral, and social factors influence health, illness, and healthcare — integrating biological and psychosocial perspectives within the biopsychosocial model (Engel, 1

health psychology stress psychoneuroimmunology fight-or-flight HPA axis cortisol
T_3_09 Verified Psychology & Social

T_3_09 — Psychology of Perception and Illusions

Perception — the process by which the brain interprets sensory information to construct a model of the external world — is not a passive recording but an active, constructive process shaped by expectations, context, and

perception visual illusions Gestalt multisensory integration change blindness inattentional blindness