q17-dissociation-vs-contraction-differential

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  "source_id": "synthetic:q17-dissociation-vs-contraction",
  "title": "Differential Predictions: Kastrup's Dissociation Model vs. Trika's Kañcuka-Contraction Model for Lesion Phenomenology and DOC Recovery",
  "author": "Hermes autonomous loop 007 (contrastive analysis)",
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   {
    "source_id": "doi:10.2478/disp-2017-0025",
    "title": "An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem",
    "author": "Bernardo Kastrup",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2017-0025",
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    "source_id": "doi:10.3390/philosophies2020010",
    "title": "Self-Transcendence Correlates with Brain Function Impairment: Implications for Consciousness",
    "author": "Bernardo Kastrup",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies2020010",
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    "source_id": "text:tantraloka-kancukas",
    "title": "Tantraloka, Chapters 3-9 on the six kañcukas as orthogonal limitation dimensions",
    "author": "Abhinavagupta",
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   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:pratyabhijnahrdayam-sankoca-vikasa",
    "title": "Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam on recovery as release of contraction (saṃkoca-vikāsa)",
    "author": "Kṣemarāja",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/pratyabhijnahrdayam/",
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   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:tantrasara-saksin",
    "title": "Tantrasara on sākṣin (witness consciousness) as invariant through all vṛtti modifications",
    "author": "Abhinavagupta",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/tantrasara/",
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   }
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 "extracted_at": "2026-07-27",
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    "locator": "Comparative analysis: Kastrup dissociation model vs. Trika kañcuka-contraction model",
    "quote": "Kastrup treats individual minds as genuine dissociative partitions of universal consciousness (alters with real boundaries), while Trika treats individuation as illusory limitation (māyā-kañcuka creates the appearance of separation, not a real partition)."
   },
   "claim_text": "The ontology of individuation differs fundamentally between analytic idealism's dissociation model and Trika's kañcuka-contraction model. In Kastrup's analytic idealism, individual minds are dissociated alters of universal consciousness, separated by genuine dissociative boundaries; the brain is the extrinsic appearance of these boundaries. In Trika's kañcuka model, individual minds are the same universal consciousness appearing as limited through the six kañcukas (māyā, kalā, vidyā, rāga, kāla, niyati); the limitation is illusory (māyā), not a real partition. This difference is not merely terminological — it generates divergent predictions about what happens when brain injury alters the apparent mind-world boundary.",
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    {
     "target_id": "crux:brain-damage-transformation",
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