Current leader: Brain as generative model / interface (net 4.93).

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 "title": "Current leader: Brain as generative model / interface (net 4.93).",
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    "Why does brain damage transform experience so precisely if the brain is not generative?",
    "Does the filter account require a mechanism, or is specifying the filtering principle sufficient?",
    "Do neural correlations reveal production, restriction, or merely parallel structure?"
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  "summary": "Current leader: Brain as generative model / interface (net 4.93).",
  "what_survives": "3 live candidates (see graph).",
  "what_is_weakened": "0 weakened.",
  "what_would_change_our_mind": "See next tests below.",
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   "Why does brain damage transform experience so precisely if the brain is not generative?",
   "Does the filter account require a mechanism, or is specifying the filtering principle sufficient?",
   "Do neural correlations reveal production, restriction, or merely parallel structure?"
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   "Design and propose an experimental protocol testing categorical vs graded distinction at the agency/knowledge boundary between filter and PP predictions.",
   "Validate the māyā-scaffold hypothesis against existing DOC recovery prediction studies (parvizi & damasio, edlow datasets already in lesion-map).",
   "Add a radical-idealist primary source response to lesion predictive utility.",
   "Consider splitting Q17 into Q17a (content structuring) and Q17b (level/arousal gating) given the māyā-kañcuka distinction from content-specific kañcukas.",
   "State an operational filter prediction that distinguishes loss of content, loss of access, and loss of arousal without mapping kañcukas one-to-one onto brain regions.",
   "Generate at least one testable kañcuka-to-neural-system prediction that differs from a generic PP prediction.",
   "State a non-ad-hoc account of why neuroscience remains predictively reliable if brains are only appearances within consciousness.",
   "Separate predictive-processing as an NCC heuristic from predictive-processing as a metaphysical thesis about appearance and reality.",
   "Design and execute clinical studies that test these filter-specific differential predictions against PP null models.",
   "Run bridge probe for nn:trika:categorical_dimension_distinction vs nn:predictive_processing:graded_precision_parameterization with negative controls.",
   "Run bridge probe for nn:trika:kancuka_specific_prediction_set vs nn:clinical_neuroscience:lesion_transformation_empirics with negative controls.",
   "Run bridge probe for nn:predictive_processing:experience_as_best_hypothesis vs nn:radical_idealism:brain_as_appearance with negative controls."
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  "last_updated": "2026-07-26",
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