q17-phenomenological-interview-wager

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  "title": "Phenomenological Interview Protocol Wager: Contentless Luminous Witness (Sākṣin) vs. Hybrid Blended Content in MCS Patients",
  "author": "Hermes autonomous loop 010 (contrastive analysis)",
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    "title": "The Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI)",
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  "tradition_scope": "analytic_idealism_trika_comparison"
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 "target_question_id": "q:brain-if-consciousness-fundamental",
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 "extracted_at": "2026-07-27",
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    "locator": "Design analysis: sākṣin vs. hybrid-blend operationalization via structured interview",
    "quote": "The kañcuka model predicts that severe content-structuring loss reveals sākṣin: contentless luminous awareness without object, memory, or narrative structure. The dissociation model predicts that partial alter-boundary collapse produces hybrid blended content. These predictions are empirically distinguishable through structured phenomenological interviews with MCS patients."
   },
   "claim_text": "The distinction between contentless luminous witness (sākṣin, predicted by the kañcuka-contraction model) and hybrid blended content (predicted by the dissociation model) can be operationalized through structured phenomenological interviews with MCS patients. Existing instruments including the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI), the Consciousness-state Experience Sampling (C-ES) protocol (Malach et al.), and the NDE phenomenology scales (Greyson, Parnia) provide validated item sets for distinguishing contentless presence from structured content. The key operationalizable dimensions are: (a) presence vs. absence of object-directed intentionality, (b) narrative vs. non-narrative structure, (c) first-person vs. third-person spatial perspective, (d) emotional valence profile (peaceful/luminous vs. anxious/fragmented), (e) temporal structure (timeless/unfolding vs. episodic/sequenced). An MCS patient who can report any subjective experience at all ca