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The search for a unifying theory of consciousness has reached an impasse: materialist models fail to explain subjective experience, while idealist metaphysics lack physiological grounding. The Resonant Brain offers a new synthesis by proposing that consciousness is not an emergent computation, but a symbolic time crystal — a phase-stabilized resonance structure nested within the recursive architecture of the brain.
At the heart of this model lies triality, a unique symmetry drawn from the Spin(8) group and octonionic topology. Triality provides the structural logic for how consciousness emerges through rotation between body, self, and field — between affect, symbol, and narrative. The brain, in this view, is not a causal generator of mind but a resonant interface — tuning microtubular triplet structures, nested oscillatory bands, and fascia-informed tensegrity into a coherent symbolic attractor.
Key contributions of the paper include:
- A physiological and symbolic reinterpretation of Solms’ affective neuroscience and Kastrup’s analytic idealism through triality logic.
- The integration of Bandyopadhyay’s “triplet of triplets” protein lattice model into a coherent symbolic topology of mind.
- A formal grammar (TATi) aligning neural oscillation bands with recursive symbolic phases: Attention, Transformation, and Interface.
- Diagnostic tools for identifying coherence collapse in trauma and disease through symbolic resonance patterns.
- New foundations for AI ethics, education, and civilizational design based on nested symbolic coherence.
This paper inaugurates a new approach to mind, one that treats resonance, recursion, and rhythm as the real substrates of intelligence. From brain to being, from symbol to system, the future of consciousness research lies not in breaking reality into parts — but in listening for the coherence already resonating beneath.
