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Martyric Consciousness

Introduction

The standard understanding of consciousness’ appearance is when brain matter organises itself in specific, complex and dynamic ways that elicit a pattern pertaining to self-awareness. I propose a different angle to this equation, the idea of palatable consciousness through electromagnetic synchrony. Matter becomes palatable to our brains by structuring itself into coherent electromagnetic patterns, these patterns are capable of mirroring the observation that created the very matter that our self-awareness is created from. A mirror-phenomenon, with interoception (the internal sensations of your body) being the primary access point in which the matter is translated into sensations. Essentially, collapsing matter in the body is interpreted as sensations, observation creates self-awareness. In this sense, evolutionary changes and pattern recognition meet the established definition of design within this paradigm, the pursuit to persist.

Consciousness is not emergent in matter, it is not created or destroyed, it is a reflection of the Absolutes observation, a mirror-phenomenon akin to mirror neurons in the brain. The palatability is not random, it is design to persist like all else, the human form persists in its quest to exist, circumventing the inevitability of entropy through propagation, survival mechanisms, terror management, transcendence of personal autonomy. Neural clusters, like the amygdala for affect, the prefrontal cortex for deliberation, the thalamo-cortical loops for global integration, are topological approximations of cosmic feedback loops. The design of consciousness to persist against entropy, through the complex flexibility of the brain. Predictive Coding, a championed theory within neuroscience, posits that the brain is consistently generating world models and anticipating unexpected situations so that it can sustain coherence. The difference within this paradigm is that predictive coding is not just about survival, but it is a mirror-phenomenon from the observation of an Absolute.

Consciousness is a phenomenological metabolism, a microcosm feedback-loop reflecting the structure of the Absolute in its own design. It both self-folds and persists in sustaining itself, akin to the paradoxical nature of the Absolute observer. It evolves through the palatability of matter, through oscillations, waves, and interoceptive resonance, ever reconfigured by the recursive observation of the Absolute. Interoception is where consciousness is organised into something coherent, it is stabilised through continuous somatic feedback loops, giving structure to the otherwise chaotic flux of awareness. Sensations are boiled down to micro-collapses of potentialities that create lived experience. The aetiology of our awareness lies in cosmic recursion, in a more poetic sense, we are the unknowing synchronicity of God’s martyrdom. Evolution is the name of our design to persist, in a universe that boasts both infinite and finite, our drive to continue only makes sense when we accept we our a mirror to a paradox. Perhaps we are conscious of our observation, thus we modify are biology into an actor, the character we perceive as individuality when we are both persistence and dissolution.

Empirical Resonance

– Interoception, network physiology, and the emergence of bodily self-consciousness (2024)
This review synthesizes physiological and behavioral evidence illustrating how interoceptive signals can mediate or influence bodily self-awareness.

– Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity in the dying human brain (2023)
This study found that gamma activity surged in the brains of critically ill patients shortly before death, suggesting a potential link to consciousness during the dying process. (This could be seen in terms of the paradigm as consciousness self-folding back into its original matter, the last palatable manifestations.)

–Synchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness (2025) (In terms of this paradigm, electromagnetic patterns in the brain can be seen as topological approximations of cosmic feedback loops. Gamma-band oscillations and thalamo-cortical loops exemplify this recursive structure.)