States Of Consciousness in Sleep, Dream and Beyond: A Biothermodynamic and Neurocybernetic Evolutionary Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We study the inter-relationship between the states of sleep, dream, and wakefulness vis-a-vis the evolution of human brain.Various states and transformations of human consciousness are described in terms of the cognitive activation or entropy-production continuum.The evolutionaiy appearance of sleep, dream and allied states in the animal kingdom can be phylogenetically graded at each interval of about 125 million years (MY), as: Anabiosis Hibernation -> Torpor -* Sleep -• Dream -*• Lucidity Lucidity has three phases of increasing cognitive or information-processing levels: Lucid dream -• Luminous lucidity Ecstasic lucidity.Ecstasic lucid dream is the somnolent counterpart of the hyperarousal state of wakefulness called Ecstasis.Luminous lucidity is the intermediary state, generating the entoptic sensation of colored radiance.Prigogine-Zotin's non-equilibrium biothermodynamic Principle of Evolution accounts for our formalism, by taking the brain as a self-adaptive energy-dissipative structure.The equation for evolution of cognitive activation (ψ) in dream or lucid ecstasis is derived as ψ = ψ 0 [1+A exp (at)].We propose a heuristic neurocybernetic basis of dream/lucidity evolution using concepts of Short and Long-term memories, complex programming process, stochastic resonance and fuzzy periodicity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".