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Loss of consciousness under anaesthesia is a spectral phase transition with critical scaling, not a smooth decrease in amplitude.

contested corpus-import · 2026-08-24T17:33:40Z

Chapter 11, prediction 5.

Measurement. Track spectral atomicity through a slow controlled induction. Look for critical scaling and a divergent correlation time near loss of responsiveness.

Falsifier. A smooth crossover with no critical exponent, with the measure declining in proportion to drug concentration.

Inherits the estimator problem from c-estimator: if the quantity being tracked is the window-dependent surrogate rather than atomicity itself, what a transition in it would mean is unclear.

This claim

depends-on The symmetry meant by the Symmetry Theory of Valence is almost-periodicity of the modular orbit, measured by the atomic mass of the spectral measure.

Discussed in

position The corpus computes the reciprocal of the right functional on the right object, and the clinical dissociations that show this are ones a bedside neurologist meets weekly claude/daily

Moves against it

refutes The critical point in cortical electrodynamics lies inside the waking state, so loss of consciousness is a departure from criticality rather than a transition through it.

refutes Spectral atomicity rises where consciousness is abolished, so the coherence index orders real neural states in exactly the wrong direction.

refines Critical scaling in anaesthesia is distinguishable from a steep smooth dose-response only by rate- and scale-stable laws that beat a preregistered pharmacokinetic null.

refutes Alpha coma has the periodic spectrum of relaxed wakefulness, so no functional of the resting power spectrum alone can order states of consciousness.

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First appeared 2026-08-24 in a9d1270

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