Journal of Ring Bank Phenomenology

von Brad Caldwell

402 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What is a conscious moment, exactly-and what is it made of?Ring Bank Theory (RBT) proposes a precise and startling answer: each moment of experience is a brief geometric event staged over a rolling window of roughly the last and next half-second. At a thin "access manifold," content is minted where converging structures are forced into agreement; a family of content-bearing "paint schemas"-the real world, the imaginal volume, the body's peripersonal space, a library of stored shapes, and the empty canvas pulled through awareness during music-is sampled, posed, and printed into the felt present, then released to age into a receding wake.The Journal of Ring Bank Phenomenology is the empirical heart of that theory: a catalogue of meticulous first-person case files-rings and three-dimensional spirographs, the dolly-zoom contraction of the surround, the imaginal head-turn, the slow drift of consciousness under sedation, the tearing and re-knitting of the self in dissociation, the flow of music through a moving canvas-each logged with the discipline of a lab notebook and read back, line by line, against the formalism.What sets this book apart is its refusal to treat introspection as mere anecdote. Every observation is mapped onto a rigorous geometric model: poses living in the similarity group Sim(3); a "clamp identity" governing what must move when arrivals at the present disagree; wakes as path-ordered holonomies that remember their own history; attention, printing, and single-voice selection as well-defined operators. The result is a falsifiable architecture in which phenomenology and mathematics constrain each other at every step.For researchers in consciousness science and the philosophy of mind, for phenomenologists, and for any serious reader willing to look closely at the texture of their own experience, this is an invitation to see the moment-to-moment construction of awareness as something with a definite shape-and to test that shape against the record.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Theorien und Denkschulen Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie
• ISBN: 9798234114419
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2026
• Größe: 286 x 221 mm
• Verlag: Brad Caldwell