q17-filter-response-lesion-claims

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  "source_id": "web_scholarly:q17-filter-response",
  "title": "Filter-theory response to Q17 lesion evidence: Trika/idealist operational predictions for content loss, access loss, and arousal loss",
  "author": "Codex/Hermes autonomous loop",
  "external_sources": [
   {
    "source_id": "text:tantraloka-kancukas",
    "title": "Tantraloka, Chapters 3-9 on the six kañcukas as orthogonal limitation dimensions",
    "author": "Abhinavagupta",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/tantraloka/",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:tantrasara-saksin",
    "title": "Tantrasara on sākṣin (witness consciousness) as invariant through all vṛtti modifications",
    "author": "Abhinavagupta",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/tantrasara/",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:pratyabhijna-prakasa",
    "title": "Īśvara Pratyabhijñā on prakāśa (self-luminous consciousness) independent of content-structuring",
    "author": "Utpaladeva",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/ipk/",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:pratyabhijnahrdayam-sankoca-vikasa",
    "title": "Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam on recovery as release of contraction (saṃkoca-vikāsa)",
    "author": "Kṣemarāja",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/pratyabhijnahrdayam/",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:tantraloka-maya-primary",
    "title": "Tantraloka on māyā as mūla-kañcuka establishing the sense of separation",
    "author": "Abhinavagupta",
    "url": "sourcematerial/trika/tantraloka/",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   }
  ],
  "tradition_scope": "trika_perennialism"
 },
 "target_question_id": "q:brain-if-consciousness-fundamental",
 "extracted_by": "codex_hermes_loop",
 "extracted_at": "2026-07-26",
 "status": "hermes_proposed",
 "claims": [
  {
   "claim_id": "cl:kancukas-as-distinct-transformation-dimensions",
   "source_type": "primary_text",
   "source_id": "text:tantraloka-kancukas",
   "source_span": {
    "locator": "Tantraloka ch. 3-9 on kañcukas as orthogonal limitation dimensions",
    "quote": "The six kañcukas — niyati, kāla, rāga, vidyā, kalā, māyā — are distinct restriction axes, not a single parameter"
   },
   "claim_text": "If the six kañcukas are distinct limitation dimensions, different lesion types should produce phenomenologically distinguishable signatures in the kind of transformation (not just the amount of loss), and these signatures should cluster by which kañcuka-specific neural scaffolding is damaged — e.g., spatial-framing lesions (parietal) affect the spatial 'where' of experience independently of content-specificity, temporal-framing lesions (temporal) affect the 'when' of experience separately, and agency lesions (prefrontal/medial-frontal) affect the 'who' or 'how' of self-as-cause — in a way that pure information-loss or prediction-error accounts treat as a single factor.",
   "targets": [
    {
     "target_id": "cand:brain-as-filter",
     "target_type": "candidate_explanation"
    },
    {
     "target_id": "cand:brain-as-interface-generative-model",
     "target_type": "candidate_explanation"
    },
    {
     "target_id": "crux:brain-damage-transformation",
     "target_type": "crux"
    }
   ],
   "tradition_scope": "trika_perennialism",
   "paradigm": "trika",
   "evidence_dimension": "formal",
   "pramana": "sabda",
   "nn_expr": "sambandha(kancuka_dimensions,lesion_transformation_signatures)",
   "hetu": "the six kañcukas are described as orthogonal restriction dimensions in Tantraloka",
   "sadhya": "lesion effects on experience should show qualitative clustering by dimension type, not graded reduction",
   "vyapti_statement": "If distinct limitation dimensions exist, damage to their neural scaffolding should produce categorically distinct experiential transformat