Behaviour, report, physiology and measurable neural activity.
Brain · awareness · self · intelligence
Mind & Consciousness
What creates experience? How do memory, perception and the sense of self arise? Which animals may be conscious—and could a machine ever be? This pillar separates measurable brain and behaviour evidence from philosophical inference and extraordinary claims.
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SCR-016 · CROSS-LISTED FROM WILDLIFE
Which Animals Know They Exist?
Mirror recognition, pain evidence, memory, body awareness and species-sensitive tests are examined without treating one human-designed experiment as a universal ladder of consciousness.
Read the investigation →The evidence standard
How questions about consciousness are handled
What the evidence suggests—and what cannot be directly observed.
Learning, reflex, expectation, memory error, demand characteristics and model bias.
Clear boundaries between established findings, active hypotheses and philosophy.
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What Is Consciousness?
Competing scientific theories, neural correlates and the limits of first-person evidence.
Why Do We Dream?
Sleep stages, memory, emotion, lucid dreaming and claims that go beyond the data.
What Can Near-Death Experiences Tell Us?
Medical records, prospective studies, memory, physiology and the difference between evidence and interpretation.
Could a Machine Become Conscious?
Intelligence versus experience, behavioural tests, architecture, embodiment and unverifiable claims.
How Is the Self Constructed?
Body ownership, memory, split-brain evidence, depersonalisation and continuity of identity.
Altered States Without the Hype
Meditation, anaesthesia, psychedelics and neurological disruption examined as changes in experience and brain function.
These are editorial research targets, not completed SCRIBE investigations. Each requires a source register, claim grading, rights review and publication gate.
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Where the subject overlaps
EVIDENCE & ANOMALIES
Supernatural Claims
Near-death reports, apparitions and mediumship require psychological, medical and evidential testing.
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Animal Minds
Consciousness questions must respect different senses, bodies and evolutionary histories.
Explore Wildlife →FUTURE
Artificial Intelligence
Capability, agency, simulation and experience should not be treated as interchangeable.
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