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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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J_4_00 Ancient Technology

J_4_00 — Military Agriculture Domestic: Subfolder Summary

Q_2_01 Verified Cosmology & Physics

Q_2_01 — Black Holes, Singularities, and Information

Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so extreme that nothing — not even light — can escape once it crosses the event horizon. Predicted by general relativity (Schwarzschild solution, 1916), regarded as m

black hole singularity event horizon Schwarzschild Kerr Hawking radiation
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INTERDOC_31 — Simulation Reality: Ancient and Modern Convergence

Nick Bostrom (Oxford, 2003, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", Philosophical Quarterly) formalized the simulation argument as a trilemma: either (1) civilizations almost always go extinct before developing simul

simulation hypothesis Bostrom Maya matrix holographic principle Plato's cave
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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

substrate independence information theory bioelectric memory planarian regeneration prion proteins epigenetic inheritance
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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

intergenerational trauma transgenerational epigenetic inheritance FKBP5 glucocorticoid receptor methylation Holocaust descendants Dutch Hunger Winter
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INTERDOC_52 — Distributed Cognition: Decentralized Information Networks Across Biology

Cognition — defined functionally as adaptive information processing, decision-making, and memory — is implemented across biology in many architectures other than the centralized animal nervous system. Mycorrhizal fungal

distributed cognition swarm intelligence mycorrhizal networks plant intelligence basal cognition slime mold
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INTERDOC_23 — Placebo, Nocebo, and the Biology of Belief

[KEY FINDING] The placebo effect is not "fake medicine" — it involves genuine, measurable physiological changes mediated by endogenous neurotransmitter systems. Fabrizio Benedetti (University of Turin) has demonstrated:

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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
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INTERDOC_20 — Psychedelic Neuroscience and Ancient Ritual Practice

[KEY FINDING] The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, the Imperial College Centre for Psychedelic Research (est. 2019, directed by Robin Carhart-Harris), and the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Assoc

psychedelics psilocybin DMT ayahuasca Eleusinian Mysteries kykeon
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INTERDOC_42 — The Serpent Being: Humanity's Oldest and Most Inverted Mythology

[KEY FINDING] Before the rise of Indo-European and Abrahamic traditions, serpent beings were the most widely venerated entity category on Earth:

serpent snake dragon Naga Quetzalcoatl Ouroboros
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INTERDOC_24 — Library Destruction and the Erasure of Knowledge

[KEY FINDING] The Library of Alexandria — founded by Ptolemy I Soter (~295 BCE), estimated to have held 400,000–700,000 scrolls — suffered multiple destruction events: Julius Caesar's fire (48 BCE, which may have burned

Library of Alexandria Nalanda book burning knowledge destruction cultural erasure manuscript loss
ZB_1_00 Ecology & Biology

ZB_1_00 — Animal Behavior Cognition: Subfolder Summary

ZB_0_00 Ecology & Biology

ZB_0_00 — Ecology & Organismal Biology: Section Summary

G_3_12 Credible Modern Frameworks

G_3_12 — Morphic Resonance and Formative Causation

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by Rupert Sheldrake (1981, A New Science of Life) that posits the existence of morphic fields — non-local, non-energetic fields that carry information about the habits (forms an

morphic resonance formative causation Rupert Sheldrake morphogenetic fields collective memory habit
O_2_15 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_2_15 — Moeraki Boulders & Septarian Concretions

The Moeraki Boulders (Te Kaihinaki in Māori) are a group of approximately 50 large, near-spherical septarian concretions exposed on Koekohe Beach, near Moeraki on the Otago coast of New Zealand's South Island. Ranging fr

Moeraki Boulders septarian concretion spheroidal weathering diagenesis mudstone calcite
T_0_00 Psychology & Social

T_0_00 — Psychology & Social: Section Summary

T_5_00 Psychology & Social

T_5_00 — Applied Specialized: Subfolder Summary

T_5_05 Credible Psychology & Social

T_5_05 — Parapsychology and Anomalous Cognition

Parapsychology is the scientific study of claimed anomalous psychological phenomena — particularly extrasensory perception (ESP) (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis (PK) (mental influence on physica

parapsychology ESP extrasensory perception telepathy precognition psychokinesis
T_5_14 Credible Psychology & Social

T_5_14 — Peak Experiences and Ecstasy: Maslow, Mystical States, and Transformative Moments

Peak experiences — moments of ecstatic joy, profound meaning, ego-dissolution, and felt unity with the world — were identified by Abraham Maslow (1964) as among the most important experiences in human life: rare, spontan

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D_1_13 Verified Sites & Artifacts

D_1_13 — Borobudur — The Cosmic Mountain in Stone

Borobudur, located in Central Java, Indonesia, is the world's largest Buddhist monument — a colossal mandala-shaped structure composed of approximately 2 million blocks of andesite volcanic stone, rising ~35 m above its

Borobudur Sailendra dynasty mandala stupa Buddhist Java