After 5 seconds - Soul, Legions, and the Freedom of Expression of Consciousness - Decolonial Neuroscience SfN2025 Lat Brain Bee NIRS EEG
After 5 seconds - Soul, Legions, and the Freedom of Expression of Consciousness - Decolonial Neuroscience SfN2025 Lat Brain Bee NIRS EEG
First-Person Consciousness
After 5 seconds, I no longer feel only the landing of a Tensional Self.
Now I am extended continuity: my soul, born from embodied emotion, connects with legions of images and memories (spirits).
But I also sense a risk: if my soul is not free, those legions may become a prison.
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Phenomena Involved
EEG: predominance of slow oscillations (alpha, theta) synchronized with long-range gamma activity, linked to memory consolidation.
fNIRS: greater coherence across hippocampus, vmPFC, ACC, parietal and temporal regions, signaling autobiographical integration.
Neurochemistry:
Serotonin – stabilizes mood and prolongs affective states.
Dopamine – strengthens motivation and reward linked to memory.
Noradrenaline – maintains selective alertness for what must be consolidated.
Connectomes: Paper, Rock, and Scissors shift from temporary competition into prolonged configurations, sustaining memory and identity.
Soul and Spirit: the spirit (semantic brain image) that became soul (embodied feeling) can now access a legion of other spirits — memories and ideas tied to the same affective field.
Open Soul vs. Rigid Soul
Open soul: allows circulation of emotions and spirits, metabolizing experiences into new creative combinations. Freedom of expression guarantees connectomic plasticity and renewal of the Tensional Self.
Rigid soul: imprisons legions of spirits in a closed loop of ideology or cultural norms. Without freedom of expression, the soul becomes restless: unable to metabolize anergies or reorganize.
Thus, what religions call a “restless soul” can be scientifically reframed as a rigidified consciousness, stuck in repetitive connectomic patterns with little creative energy.
Voices of the Avatars
Brainlly: “Serotonin and dopamine cement memories. But without free circulation, this chemistry hardens into rigidity.”
Iam: “The embodied feeling can flourish as living memory — or become emotional prison if it cannot express itself.”
Olmeca: “We call it identity when the soul stabilizes. But rigid cultures freeze identities, stopping their renewal.”
Yagé: “In ritual, the open soul is song and healing; the rigid soul is heavy silence. Both exist, but only the first releases energy.”
Math/Hep: “Slow connectomes integrate hippocampus and prefrontal. If they flow, they build narrative; if blocked, they echo endlessly.”
DANA: “Every soul leaves epigenetic traces. But only open souls encode plasticity; rigid souls replicate scars.”
Practical Example
The researcher-mother returns to her thesis after caring for her baby.
With an open soul, the experience becomes nourishing memory: strengthening bonds, enriching her life narrative.
With a rigid soul, the same episode may imprison her in guilt or the belief that she must choose between mother and researcher.
The same soul can be a bridge to creativity or a prison of spirits — depending on its freedom of internal expression.
Neuroscientific Reading
EEG – alpha/theta rhythms in synchrony with gamma: foundation for narrative integration.
fNIRS – coordinated activation of vmPFC, hippocampus, and parietal hubs: Default Mode Network in action.
Neurochemistry – serotonin, dopamine, and noradrenaline stabilize long-term states, but risk crystallizing patterns without variability.
Connectomes – stable arrangements sustain memory and identity, but rigidity emerges if anergies are not metabolized.
Open vs. rigid soul – plasticity versus crystallization; freedom of expression versus ideological imprisonment.
Partial Conclusion
After 5 seconds, Consciousness transcends the instant and becomes continuous narrative.
But the quality of that narrative depends on the nature of the soul:
Open, when it metabolizes spirits and emotions in freedom of expression.
Rigid, when it imprisons legions in ideology and becomes “restless,” lacking resources to metabolize anergies.
Science shows that freedom of expression — neural and cultural — is the essential metabolic resource for the soul to remain alive, plastic, and capable of creating new Tensional Selves.
References (post-2020)
Deco, G. et al. (2021). Dynamical regimes of whole-brain activity underpin human cognition. Nature Communications.
Raichle, M.E. (2021). The Brain’s Default Mode Network revisited. NeuroImage.
Michel, C.M. & Koenig, T. (2022). EEG microstates as windows into large-scale brain dynamics. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
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Hasson, U. et al. (2021). Hierarchical process memory: from perception to narrative. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
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