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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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K_1_14 — Qualia: The Subjective Experience Problem
Qualia (singular: quale) — the term used in philosophy of mind for the subjective, experiential properties of conscious mental states — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain, the taste of coffee, the felt quality o
K_4_19 — Plant Bioelectricity and Distributed Cognition
Plants generate, propagate, and respond to electrical signals via mechanisms that are biophysically homologous to neuronal action potentials, despite lacking a brain or central nervous system. Action potentials in Mimosa
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
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_14 — Brain Lateralization and Consciousness: The Divided Brain
Hemispheric lateralization — the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres — is one of the most robust findings in neuroscience and has profound implications for understanding consciousness. The left hemi
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_2_13 — Attention Networks: Dorsal, Ventral, and Salience Systems
Attention — the selective allocation of processing resources to particular stimuli, locations, or tasks — is among the most studied phenomena in cognitive neuroscience and is intimately linked to consciousness: what we a
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
K_5_02 — Pain, Consciousness, and the Nature of Suffering
Pain is one of the most philosophically revealing phenomena in consciousness studies: it is simultaneously a sensory detection system, an emotional experience, a cognitive evaluation, and a social communication — and the
K_5_06 — Dreaming and Consciousness: Why We Dream
Dreaming — the experience of structured hallucinatory consciousness during sleep — is one of the most remarkable features of the human mind and a central challenge for any theory of consciousness. Every night, for a tota
K_5_14 — Buddhist Abhidharma and the Analysis of Consciousness
The Abhidharma (Sanskrit: "higher teaching," Pali: Abhidhamma) represents Buddhism's systematic attempt to analyze consciousness into its fundamental components — one of the most detailed pre-modern phenomenological fram
K_5_13 — Integrated World Models: Bayesian Brain and Consciousness
The Bayesian brain hypothesis proposes that the brain is fundamentally a prediction machine — it constructs and maintains internal generative models of the world (including the body), uses these models to generate predic
K_5_09 — Consciousness and Time Perception: How the Brain Creates Now
Time is perhaps the most intimate dimension of consciousness: every conscious experience occurs in time, and our sense of temporal flow — the feeling that time "passes," that the present moment is real and moving forward
K_5_05 — Consciousness and Information Integration: Phi and Its Critics
Integrated Information Theory (IIT), developed primarily by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi (b. 1960) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with significant contributions from Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Scie
K_5_01 — Neurophenomenology and First-Person Science
Neurophenomenology — the research program proposed by Francisco Varela (1996) — seeks to bridge the "explanatory gap" between objective neuroscience and subjective experience by integrating rigorous first-person phenomen
E_3_04 — Doggerland and Sundaland — Drowned Continental Shelves
Doggerland and Sundaland represent two of the most significant landmasses lost to post-glacial sea level rise, together encompassing hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of habitable terrain that was progressively
E_3_19 — Volcanic Aerosol Forcing and Historical Climate Disruption
Explosive volcanic eruptions inject sulfur dioxide (SO₂) into the stratosphere, where it converts to sulfate aerosol particles (H₂SO₄) that reflect incoming solar radiation and cool Earth's surface for 1–3 years. This pr
E_3_08 — Dansgaard-Oeschger Events and Abrupt Climate Change
Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events are rapid climate oscillations during the last glacial period (c. 115,000–11,700 years ago) characterized by abrupt warming of 5–16°C in Greenland within decades — among the most dramatic a
E_3_01 — Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Every complex civilization in recorded history has collapsed or been transformed beyond recognition. The Bronze Age collapse (~1177 BCE) destroyed the interconnected civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean within a si
E_3_20 — Dansgaard-Oeschger Events: Rapid Climate Oscillations
Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events are rapid climate oscillations first identified in Greenland ice cores, characterized by abrupt warming of 8–16°C over Greenland within decades, followed by gradual cooling over centuries
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