Memory, self, identity, and consciousness. distributed sources, functions, and continuity
Memory does not store identity, and it has no center. The sensory trace, short-term maintenance, working memory, hippocampal explicit memory, and implicit memory in striatum, cerebellum, and amygdala are different sources of the same continuity. The self…
Love, more than a whole
Love succeeds where you become more than a whole beside someone who becomes more than a whole, and where neither is forced, but both grow. Warmth is not proof. It is the climate in which Love can grow. Sexual fusion ceases to be solitude when the scene…
The love that holds and the love that arrives. The distinction between theological love and human love
Theological love and human love are not distinguished by intensity. They are distinguished by structure. Theological love starts from fullness. The source does not become, does not owe the world, does not complete itself through it. It can hold, will,…
The layers that hold us together through body, mind, and social change
A layered essay on how bodies, minds, institutions, culture, and unequal pressure shape social stability and change without turning society into a single collective mind.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Michael Pravica: Matter, consciousness, and the hidden dimensions of reality
In this exclusive interview, Andrei Eugen Drăguț speaks with Dr. Michael Pravica, Professor of Physics and member of HiPSEC, about matter under extreme conditions, useful hard X-ray chemistry, consciousness, higher dimensions, Orthodox faith, artificial…
The past was not as obvious as it feels
Hindsight bias, adaptive memory, false certainty, and the difficult ethics of judging yesterday with the knowledge of today
The distributed layered Self
The self is neither a little person inside the brain nor a vague everywhere. It is an emergent process, grounded in critical nodes, sustained by distributed interaction, and shaped by body, prediction, memory, language, relationship, culture, sleep, and…
The distributed Self and it’s criticism
A strong model of the self must do two things at once: synthesize what is fragmented and resist the temptation to explain more than it has earned. The distributed mind is a powerful map, but it becomes more credible when it admits its omissions, its…
The body is a distributed mind
The body is not a passive instrument controlled by the brain. It is a distributed system of sensing, processing, prediction, regulation, defense, memory, and identity. The self is not located in one place. It emerges from the integration of body, brain,…
Could God lie to you?
If God is perfect, lying seems both unnecessary and incompatible with moral perfection. But if we remove morality and keep only power, knowledge, purpose, and efficiency, falsehood becomes possible as an instrument. The real question is not simply…
What you put above truth becomes your master
When we put something above truth, we do not merely make a mistake. We reveal the hidden master that governs us when reality becomes costly. Fear, pride, loyalty, comfort, desire, and death anxiety all compete with truth. The work is to know which one…
The person who changes and the world that doesn’t yet
Inner work does not replace structural change, and structural change does not automatically heal the inner life. The practical question is how to act when both the person and the world are unfinished.
Conflict begins in the nervous system before It becomes language
Long before the first accusation, explanation, correction or defense, the body has already entered the room. The jaw tightens. The chest narrows. The stomach contracts. The voice changes by a few degrees. The face prepares itself for injury or attack.…
Why we spend billions on Mars while ignoring Earth’s crises and the thirst for collective hope
The question is usually asked as an accusation: why are we spending billions on Mars while poverty, climate instability, war, collapsing health systems, housing crises and ecological damage remain unresolved on Earth? The standard answers are familiar.…
Attention capitalism and the battle for the human mind
Before the day has properly begun, before a thought has had time to form in silence, the phone has already staged an entire emotional sequence: a headline that provokes, a video that absorbs, a comment that validates, a post that unsettles, a…
The faces of pathological narcissism: grandiose, vulnerable, hybrid, and the malignant variant
Narcissism is far more nuanced than the monolithic caricature often portrayed in popular culture. Rather than a single archetype of arrogance, it encompasses a spectrum of psychological organizations, each defined by unique inner experiences, value…
The illusion of the self and how self-delusion separates us from authenticity by distorting reality
When self-knowledge becomes self-deception We live in an era in which self-knowledge is often confused with compulsive introspection, and personal development with narcissistic performance. In this cultural climate, one of the most dangerous…