Packet
q17-brain-role-web-claims
vendored research asset · q17-brain-role-web-claims.json
{
"packet_id": "ip:q17-brain-role-web-claims",
"schema_version": 2,
"artifact_type": "argument_fabric_claim_packet",
"source": {
"source_id": "web_scholarly:q17-brain-role",
"title": "Paper-grounded claims for Q17: If consciousness is fundamental, what is the brain doing?",
"author": "Codex research pass",
"external_sources": [
{
"source_id": "pubmed:24033505",
"title": "Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation",
"author": "Zoran Josipovic",
"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24033505/",
"doi": "10.1111/nyas.12261",
"source_quality": "peer_reviewed_empirical_review"
},
{
"source_id": "doi:10.33735/phimisci.2020.II.64",
"title": "Predictive processing as a systematic basis for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness",
"author": "Jakob Hohwy and Anil Seth",
"url": "https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/predictive-processing-as-a-systematic-basis-for-identifying-the-n/",
"doi": "10.33735/phimisci.2020.II.64",
"source_quality": "peer_reviewed_theoretical_neuroscience"
},
{
"source_id": "doi:10.1080/17588928.2013.877880",
"title": "A predictive processing theory of sensorimotor contingencies: explaining the puzzle of perceptual presence and its absence in synesthesia",
"author": "Anil K. Seth",
"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24446823/",
"doi": "10.1080/17588928.2013.877880",
"source_quality": "peer_reviewed_theoretical_neuroscience"
},
{
"source_id": "doi:10.53765/20512201.32.11.159",
"title": "The Brain as a Filter: Introducing a Quantum Ground into Integrated Information Theory",
"author": "George R. Williams",
"url": "https://philpapers.org/rec/WILTBA-16",
"doi": "10.53765/20512201.32.11.159",
"source_quality": "peer_reviewed_philosophical_speculation"
},
{
"source_id": "doi:10.1111/nous.12552",
"title": "Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism",
"author": "Tobias Schlicht",
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12552",
"doi": "10.1111/nous.12552",
"source_quality": "peer_reviewed_philosophy"
}
],
"tradition_scope": "cross_disciplinary_consciousness_science"
},
"target_question_id": "q:brain-if-consciousness-fundamental",
"extracted_by": "codex",
"extracted_at": "2026-07-26",
"status": "web_scholarly_reviewed",
"claims": [
{
"claim_id": "cl:josipovic-nda-intrinsic-extrinsic-network-correlates",
"source_type": "peer_reviewed_empirical_review",
"source_id": "pubmed:24033505",
"source_span": {
"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24033505/",
"locator": "abstract",
"quote": "influence of NDA on anticorrelated intrinsic and extrinsic networks"
},
"claim_text": "Nondual awareness practice is reported as modulating anticorrelated intrinsic and extrinsic brain networks, so nondual phenomenology is not currently independent of neural organization.",
"targets": [
{
"target_id": "cand:brain-as-interface-generative-model",
"target_type": "candidate_explanation"
},
{
"target_id": "crux:neural-correlation-direction",
"target_type": "crux"
}
],
"tradition_scope": "nondual_neuroscience",
"paradigm": "contemplative_neuroscience",
"evidence_dimension": "empirical",
"pramana": "pratyaksa",
"nn_expr": "sambandha(nondual_awareness,brain_network_modulation)",
"hetu": "reported nondual awareness is associated with network-level neural modulation",
"sadhya": "a consciousness-first view must explain lawful brain-experience coupling",
"vyapti_statement": "Where a phenomenological state has reliable neural modulation, a viable theory must explain the direction and specificity of that coupling.",
"vyapti_confidence": 0.66,
"log_bayes_factor": 0.34,
"w_rel": 0.78,
"w_map": 0.68,
"w_aux": 0.72,
"falsifier": {
"type": "empirical",
"condition": "Replicated nondual-awareness protocols under adequate controlsSources & corrections: edit source →. source lives here.