Consciousness, Cognition, and the Body – Between Science and Lived Experience - Brain Bee Ideas

Block 1: Cognition and Physiology

Objective: To relate physiological data (EEG, fNIRS, GSR, etc.) to cognitive states based on scientific publications.

Neurocorrelates of Real-Time Cognition

* Source: “Readiness Potential Reflects Detailed Prediction of Action Outcome” (Gärtner et al., 2025)

* Concepts: Damasian Mind and Existential Metabolism as conscious motor anticipations.

* Question: How much of our action is already decided before the “I” becomes aware?

Empathy and Brain Synchrony

* Source: “Empathy Aligns Brains in Synchrony” (Schwartz et al., 2025)

* Concepts: Human Quorum Sensing (QSH), Tensional Selves, and Symbiotic Belonging.

* Example: “Feeling together” in couples or families and the risk of collapse under emotional overload.

Embodiment and Virtual Reality: The Incorporated Self

* Source: “Identifying EEG biomarkers of sense of embodiment in VR” (Esteves et al., 2025)

* Concepts: Yãy hã Miy and the plasticity of the Self.

* Proposal: How the Self can be trained—or hijacked—within simulated realities.

Embodied States of Musical Consciousness

* Source: Research presented at ICMPC18

* Concepts: Micro Selves, Anergias, and Fruition with Metacognition.

* Highlight: How music releases cognitive and bodily tensions.

Block 2: Coma States and Intermittent Consciousness

Objective: To scientifically explore coma, minimal consciousness states, and the fragmented return of awareness.

Coma and the Damasian Mind: When Consciousness Dissolves

* Approach: Explain coma via prolonged anesthesia, cortical damage, metabolic failure, and septic shock.

* Source: Research on vegetative states and minimal consciousness (e.g., Owen et al., *Science*, 2006).

* Concepts: Dissolution of Tensional Selves and reconfiguration of Proprioception.

Intermittent Consciousness: Why the Return Takes Weeks

* Thesis: The reemergence of the Self requires gradual integration of interoception, memory, and language.

* Source: Models of brain recovery and neuroplasticity.

Pre-Coma Delirium: One Last Tensional Self?

* Approach: Delirium as instability of QSH and disorganized Tensional Selves due to visceral collapse.

* Source: Studies on delirium (Inouye et al., *NEJM*, 2006).

Block 3: Culture, Belief, and Neuroethnology

Objective: To examine how beliefs shape the experience of pain, obligation, and spiritual reward.

 Suffering as Virtue: A Religious Tensional Self

* Source: Religious learning and symbolic reinforcement theories (Norenzayan, 2013).

* Concept: Pei-Utupe as the soul embodied in memories of pain/virtue.

* Critique: Belief systems that monetize suffering as a path to sanctity.

The Self That Imposes Pain to Teach: Pathological Altruism?

* Neuroethical analysis: Self-inflicted pain as a means of belief transmission.

* Concepts: Impositional Yãy hã Miy and transgenerational trauma.

* Source: Epigenetic studies on parental stress (Yehuda et al., 2014).

When the Body Becomes an Ethical Battlefield

* Proposal: The body as a territory of ethical, spiritual, and political assertion.

* Concepts: Body-Territory and the idea of spiritual debt as moral action.

Block 4: Reconfiguring the Self and Society

*Objective: To offer alternatives for reorganizing Tensional Selves and proposing new forms of spirituality and belonging.

Spirituality Without Guilt, Fear, or Desire

* Proposal: PureMind, Damasian Mind, and DANA spirituality.

* Source: Neuroscientific theories on compassion and default mode networks.

Inherited Pain: When Suffering Becomes a Collective Belief

* Concept: Culturally transmitted Anergias.

* Source: Cultural theories of pain (Scarry, 1985).

Fruition as a Practice: Doing Less to Be More

* Proposal: Redefining doing as a non-compulsive Self.

* Concept: Fruition with Metacognition + Apus (Extended Proprioception).

Technology and the Hijacking of the Self: How to Reprogram Attention

* Concept: Activation of Micro Selves through TikTok, news, and emotional loops.

* Source: Studies on dopamine cycles and short-stimulus dependence (Montag et al., 2018).

Where Does Consciousness Go When We Stop?

* Philosophical closure: Silence, sleep, coma, meditation, and the dissolution of Selves.

* Concept: Narrative-free states and reconnection with pure interoception.