Drăguț hypothesis on spiral temporal systems for the world and the mind
The human being and civilization are not separate objects but expressions of the same organizing principle: recursive, anticipatory, self-organizing systems that reconstruct themselves through memory, present experience, and imagined futures. This…
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…
Truth keeps the world standing. The lie makes it livable
Truth is the default of communication and the frame of action; without it, cooperation, science, and decisions collapse. Measured untruth — tact, reserve, the white lie, a moderate illusion — is the energy that keeps relations livable and anxiety from…
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,…
Why the Self creates symbols before it creates stability
The self often creates symbols before it creates stability because symbols can offer immediate dignity, coherence, and nervous-system containment where material reality still feels uncertain. There are periods in life when the self cannot yet build…
Conspiracy theories are not mainly about information
They are about attachment, identity and a world that no longer feels trustworthy The most condescending explanation of conspiracy theories is also the least useful: people believe false things because they are stupid. This explanation flatters the person…
Austerity is not just fiscal policy it Is a collective psychological event
Economic policy is usually described in the language of numbers: deficits, debt-to-GDP ratios, inflation, yields, public spending, tax receipts. This language is necessary. Without it, societies cannot discuss budgets seriously. But it is also…