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The 13-millisecond bridge: reconfiguring external space within the brain’s oscillatory default mode

• Authors Details :  
• Ravinder Jerath,  
• Varsha Malani

Journal title : Advances in clinical and medical research

Publisher : Genesis Scientific Publication

Print ISSN : 2583-2778

Journal volume : 6

Journal issue : 3

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We exist in a conscious experience of life that is transitive and moment-by-moment, yet significant enough non-zero-time latencies exist across the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems that transduction and processing do not take place instantly. This paper attempts to examine these non-zero-time latencies to resolve the conflict, ultimately suggesting that instead of consciousness accessing an external world, it accesses a high-fidelity bioelectric representation of the external world generated during this pre-conscious time interval. This external representation is the byproduct of Default Space Theory (DST), which indicates that oscillatory movements of the brain and body form a continuous three-dimensional "default space" over time. The default space exists as we exist, separately. Our external inputs from the retina, cochlea, and dermis "clothing" the default internal configuration occur via phase-locked neural oscillations over time, which occur at significant non-zero latencies. For example, the earliest cortical stages for auditory and tactile processing occurs at ~10–20ms, while the olfactory and visual features of stimuli occur at ~50–70ms. This doesn't mean we're perceiving them in time; it's quite the opposite. We're not perceiving in time because the default space is so well-templated all at once that somehow, the brain must erase this time interval and use the integrated multisensory processing to update continuously. Thus, we need to redefine consciousness as this continuously updated internal projection of externalized realities instead of an experience of what's outside.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.52793/ACMR.2025.6(3)-110

Article Subject Details

• Medical eduaction
• Medical research
• Medical Science
• Medical sciences

Article Keywords Details

• Audition
• Consciousness
• Neural Oscillations
• Perceptual Latency
• Sensory Processing
• Somatosensation
• Vision
• Default Space Theory

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