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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

blindsight unconscious vision V1 striate cortex Weiskrantz cortical blindness
K_3_13 Verified Consciousness

K_3_13 — Coma, Vegetative State, and Minimally Conscious State: Clinical Boundaries

Disorders of consciousness (DoC) — clinical conditions in which awareness (the content of consciousness — perception, thought, experience) and/or arousal (the level of wakefulness — eyes open, sleep-wake cycles) are seve

coma vegetative state minimally conscious state unresponsive wakefulness syndrome disorders of consciousness locked-in syndrome
K_3_11 Verified Consciousness

K_3_11 — Animal Consciousness and Sentience

The question of whether non-human animals possess conscious experience — subjective awareness, felt pain, emotions, and self-recognition — has moved from philosophical speculation to a major neuroscientific research prog

animal consciousness sentience Cambridge Declaration mirror test Gallup pain perception
K_3_07 Consciousness

K_3_07 — Evolution of Consciousness

The question of when, how, and why consciousness evolved is one of the deepest unsolved problems at the intersection of biology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Two major recent proposals have attempted to identify the evo

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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

enactivism embodied cognition autopoiesis sense-making Varela Thompson
K_1_04 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_1_05 Consciousness

K_1_05 — Global Workspace Theory

Global Workspace Theory (GWT), proposed by Bernard Baars (1988) and neurally formalized by Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux as the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW, 1998–2011), is one of the leading scientific th

global workspace theory GWT global neuronal workspace Bernard Baars Stanislas Dehaene Jean-Pierre Changeux
K_1_10 Credible Consciousness

K_1_10 — Panpsychism — Comprehensive Survey

Panpsychism — the view that consciousness or experiential properties are fundamental and ubiquitous features of the physical world — has experienced a dramatic revival in analytic philosophy since the early 2000s, driven

panpsychism panprotopsychism Chalmers Galen Strawson Russellian monism combination problem
K_1_08 Consciousness

K_1_08 — Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness

Higher-order (HO) theories of consciousness propose that a mental state becomes conscious not by virtue of its intrinsic properties but because it is the target of a higher-order mental representation — a thought, percep

higher-order theories higher-order thought HOT theory Rosenthal higher-order perception HOP
K_4_16 Credible Consciousness

K_4_16 — Psi Research Meta-Analysis: Parapsychology, Statistical Evidence, and the Replication Debate

Parapsychology — the scientific study of purported psychic phenomena (psi), including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis — has accumulated over a century of experimental research with a complex and

psi parapsychology meta-analysis Ganzfeld precognition remote viewing
K_4_01 Consciousness

K_4_01 — Shamanism, Entheogens & Serpent Visions

Shamanism as a cross-cultural altered-state practice is Tier 1 anthropology (Eliade 1964, Winkelman 2010). Clinical psilocybin and DMT research is Tier 1 (Griffiths 2006/2019, Strassman 2001, Davis 2021). The consistent

shamanism DMT ayahuasca psilocybin Strassman Harner
K_4_03 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

limitation of consciousness eyes weakened Popol Vuh Archon control 120 years lifespan limit
Y_1_02 Altered States

Y_1_02 — 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

morphic resonance Rupert Sheldrake morphogenetic field formative causation habits of nature collective memory
K_2_04 Consciousness

K_2_04 — Attention and Awareness

Attention and awareness are intimately linked yet dissociable aspects of consciousness. Attention — the selective processing of some information at the expense of other information — is a fundamental bottleneck in human

attention awareness selective attention inattentional blindness change blindness attentional blink
K_2_05 Consciousness

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

unconscious processing subliminal perception implicit memory priming blindsight automatic processing
K_2_21 Verified Consciousness

K_2_21 — Transcranial Brain Stimulation: tDCS, TMS, and Deep Brain Stimulation

Transcranial brain stimulation encompasses a family of techniques that modulate neural activity by delivering energy — magnetic pulses, electrical current, or implanted electrodes — to specific brain regions. The three p

transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS transcranial direct current stimulation tDCS deep brain stimulation DBS
K_2_06 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

neurofeedback EEG biofeedback brain training operant conditioning EEG SMR training alpha-theta training
K_2_10 Verified Consciousness

K_2_10 — Neural Entrainment: External Rhythmic Brain Synchronization

Neural entrainment — the process by which rhythmic external stimuli (sound, light, tactile vibration, or electromagnetic fields) synchronize the timing of neural oscillations in the brain — is a well-established neurophy

neural entrainment brainwave entrainment auditory entrainment photic driving rhythmic stimulation neural oscillation
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_2_08 Consciousness

K_2_08 — The Binding Problem in Consciousness

The binding problem asks how the brain creates unified, coherent conscious experiences from the distributed, specialized processing activity of millions of neurons across separate brain regions. When you see a red ball r

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