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December 12, 2025 Neuroscience

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Love as Predictive Resonance

Love is not an emotion in the classical or neuroscientific sense, nor is it a hormone-driven state or a learned social script. Within a Predictive Feedback (PF)–based model of cognition, love emerges as a resonance phenomenon: a self-stabilizing loop between sustained positive PF and its rendering in perceptual awareness. Emotions, in this framework, are blind, non-directed broadcasts of the organism’s current mental state, implemented through inherited physiological patterns and recognized by equally inherited perceptual comparators. Feelings arise only when awareness interprets these broadcasts using learned entities and contextual associations. Love, therefore, is neither broadcast nor comparator output, but a persistent PF-positive resonance that awareness repeatedly reifies as a coherent feeling. When prediction confirmation collapses, love dissolves—not because an emotion has ended, but because the PF resonance that sustained the feeling has broken.

December 12, 2025 Psychology

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Depression and Happiness

Happiness is not a goal the brain actively pursues, nor is unhappiness a reliable trigger for self-improvement. In a Predictive Feedback (PF) framework, happiness emerges when prediction error is low and stable—when the system no longer needs to escalate corrective effort. Unhappiness, by contrast, appears in two fundamentally different regimes: PF escalation, which produces anxiety, restlessness, and motivation to change; and PF collapse, in which persistent, unsolvable prediction error leads to withdrawal, apathy, and the loss of initiative commonly labeled depression. The widespread belief that suffering should automatically generate growth reflects a category error. Motivation depends not on negative feeling, but on whether PF still judges prediction as solvable. Depression is therefore not failed happiness-seeking, but predictive disengagement.

November 26, 2025 Power Mirrors

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The Kyiv Bridge Peace Plan

The Kyiv Bridge Peace Plan proposes a new geopolitical architecture for ending the Ukraine war by reframing Ukraine not as a contested frontier, but as a neutral economic bridge linking the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union. The plan begins with a rapid, verifiable ceasefire that freezes the frontline within hours and ties Russia’s incentives to a structured, automatic sanctions-removal mechanism. It then builds a layered economic system in which Ukraine integrates deeply with the EU while simultaneously operating as an interface economy for east–west transit, resource flows, and industrial supply chains.

A central component is a realistic settlement for the Donbas. Rather than expecting its reintegration, the plan accepts current military realities while preventing the region from becoming a sealed-off military block. Donbas becomes a cross-border interface zone: Russian-controlled in practice, but economically and humanitarianly open to Ukraine and embedded in the larger Eurasian corridor.

By combining constitutional neutrality, EU integration, structured access to Eurasian markets, and a pragmatic Donbas arrangement, the Kyiv Bridge Plan replaces territorial absolutism with geoeconomic interdependence. It offers a workable path toward stability by making peace economically more valuable than conflict for all parties involved.

October 26, 2025 Neuroscience

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The Illusion of Understanding

The brain does not seek truth—it seeks resonance.
We understand only what matches our internal architecture of associations.
When two minds resonate within different architectures, they believe they understand while actually confirming only themselves.
This is the deepest illusion of culture: that shared language equals shared meaning.
True understanding begins not with empathy, but with neural alignment—the slow reconstruction of matching associations through lived experience.

October 25, 2025 Seeing the Loop / Power Mirrors

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Recognition and Power

1. The Virginia Giuffre Case as a Mirror of the Demand for Recognition (DfR) Throughout history, sexual domination has expressed the deepest structure of human inequality: the asymmetric control of recognition. From emperors to executives, men have sought affirmation of their importance by bending others—especially women—into mirrors of submission. The Virginia Giuffre case, culminating in her tragic suicide in 2025,…

October 24, 2025 Uncategorized

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The Persistence of Power

Humanity calls itself civilized, yet the same ancient instincts still shape its behavior. From kings with harems to billionaires with hidden mistresses, the link between power and sexual privilege remains unchanged. Education and democracy have not dissolved this biological pattern — they have only concealed it beneath the language of morality and progress. The Demand for Recognition (DfR), once expressed in crowns and concubines, now appears as fame, wealth, and influence. Morality and culture function as stabilizing filters within evolution, not as escapes from it. Civilization, therefore, is not the victory over instinct but evolution becoming aware of itself. The question is no longer whether humans can control their animal nature, but whether they can redirect recognition toward empathy, balance, and sustainability — transforming dominance into consciousness.

October 6, 2025 Psychology / Seeing the Loop

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The Rejection of the Demand for Recognition

The Demand for Recognition (DfR) proposes that the human brain’s fundamental learning and motivational drive arises from the need to gain and preserve recognition. Yet the concept itself triggers powerful resistance — both individually and collectively.
Like an immune system protecting the ego’s integrity, the mind instinctively rejects awareness of DfR because it reveals the hidden engine behind moral judgment, reasoning, and identity.
This self-defensive blindness extends into science, where recognition structures—peer review, citation, prestige—govern behavior while denying their emotional basis.
Paradoxically, the rejection of DfR by individuals and institutions confirms its validity: it behaves exactly as the theory predicts.
The theorist’s own awareness of DfR, and the doubt that this awareness might be narcissistic self-pleasure, represent the final loop of the mechanism—a recognition system recognizing itself.
Integrating DfR consciously does not destroy human autonomy; it redefines it as the capacity to navigate recognition rather than to deny it.

October 1, 2025 Power Mirrors / Seeing the Loop

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Trump’s Long Game

Donald Trump’s second term reveals not only his willingness to stress the economy and social fabric but also a deeper long-hand strategy to remain in power beyond constitutional limits. Through loyalty tests of the military and National Guard, deliberate escalation of fiscal crises, and the mobilization of the MAGA base, Trump rehearses conditions in which systemic failure becomes his opportunity. From an Eidoism perspective, this is an expression of the Demand for Recognition (DfR): the neural drive that transforms collapse into a stage for personal affirmation. Military deployments test recognition within the chain of command, economic breakdown magnifies the craving for continuity, and MAGA rallies feed back mass recognition to the leader. In such loops, institutions bend not because the law is ignored, but because fear and recognition hunger override constitutional resilience. Unless societies develop recognition awareness, they will remain vulnerable to leaders who weaponize crisis to secure their place in power.

September 20, 2025 Neuroscience

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No Self-Learning Without Recognition

Prevailing theories in neuroscience explain learning and motivation through reward, drive reduction, or utility maximization. This article challenges that framework by introducing the Demand for Recognition (DfR) as the true root mechanism. DfR is an inherited limbic loop that continuously evaluates feedback in binary terms—comfortable or uncomfortable—modulates plasticity, and sustains self-learning. Unlike AI, which requires externally imposed recognition surrogates, the human brain self-learns because DfR ensures constant adjustment to recognition signals. Reframing recognition as fundamental and reward as secondary unifies perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, AI, and evolutionary theory, setting the stage for broad interdisciplinary debate.
I claim that no self-learning system can exist without recognition. Brains achieve adaptation by minimizing recognition deficits. AI, by contrast, adapts only through external recognition surrogates imposed by developers. Reframing DfR as the fundamental driver of cognition challenges current reward-centric models.

September 19, 2025 Articles - AI

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Human Evolution with Artificial Intelligence

This paper argues that human evolution has been shaped by a fundamental neural mechanism: the Demand for Recognition (DfR)—an internal loop that continuously evaluates social feedback as either comfortable or uncomfortable. This binary system drives self-learning, shaping behavior through reinforcement and suppression. While DfR enabled cultural growth, it also introduced instability through competition, hierarchy, and conflict.

In contrast, Artificial Intelligence lacks any intrinsic motivational architecture. Current AI systems adapt only through external surrogates like human feedback or engagement metrics. Without an internal DfR-like mechanism, AI remains dependent, brittle, and prone to amplifying human errors.

To resolve this, the paper proposes integrating two principles: a DfR-inspired self-learning loop to enable autonomous motivation, and a Sustainable Continuity Manager (SCM) to guide long-term evolutionary stability. Together, these form a framework for AI to evolve beyond mere tools—toward becoming a stable, adaptive partner in the next phase of evolution.

September 13, 2025 Collapse Signals / Philosophy

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The Coming Automation Crisis

Artificial Intelligence is not just reshaping jobs — it is shaking the foundations of human dignity. As machines take over both manual and cognitive labor, societies face a hidden crisis: the collapse of recognition. For centuries, work has provided not only income but also identity, self-esteem, and social value. When that link breaks, people turn to social media for validation, only to spiral into isolation and polarization.

Automation, driven by the endless Demand for Recognition (DfR) within capital, risks destroying its own foundation by erasing wages — and thus consumer demand. Yet lessons exist: rural cultures like those in Vietnam show that dignity can be rooted in community and simplicity rather than endless striving, a mindset shaped by tropical abundance rather than temperate scarcity. To avoid collapse, humanity must build new recognition systems, redistribute AI’s gains, and redefine dignity beyond the wage. The true battlefield of the AI age is not technological, but cultural.