Throughout life, human beings encounter a wide range of thoughts, emotions, memories, social roles, and personal narratives. They can become aware of their fears, observe their thoughts, and even reflect upon their identity and personality. This experience gives rise to a fundamental question: What is it that is aware of all these processes? This article … Read more
Identity is one of the most fundamental concepts in human experience and plays a central role in how individuals perceive themselves and the world around them. Most psychological and neuroscientific theories regard identity as the outcome of interactions among memory, experience, learning, culture, and brain structures. This article presents an alternative perspective, proposing that identity … Read more
Addiction and obsessive behaviors are commonly interpreted as disorders of the brain’s reward system. However, many dominant models in neuroscience overlook the role of the search for meaning, identity, and existential peace in intensifying these cycles. This article presents an interdisciplinary conceptual framework at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of consciousness, and spirituality, proposing that … Read more
This paper introduces the concept of Cognitive Arrest (Brain Stop) as a condition in which the natural flow of awareness becomes interrupted within recorded, repetitive, and conditioned neural patterns. In this state, instead of moving freely in the present moment, awareness becomes trapped in past emotional data, engrams, and anxiety-based loops. Through the selective amplification … Read more
This article presents a conceptual framework at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and spirituality, in which the “present moment” is considered the only point of access to direct experience and truth. Within this perspective, what humans perceive as experience is often a combination of current perception and memory-based reconstructions generated by the brain. … Read more