Brentano & Panikkar’s Beautiful Anticipation of the Cognitive Cycle & the Emergence of Knowledge & Meaning: Towards a Broader Understanding of Transcendence

Abstract

This work briefly addresses three major subjects and their interrelationships, namely: (a) the analysis of ECoG data to identify synchronization moments associated with sudden transitions in spatio-temporal neurodynamics in the brain of rabbits, (b) the observed and analyzed response period that shows various significant nonlinear events within the cognitive cycle of the creation of knowledge and meaning in the 1 second duration window following stimuli, and (c) similarities with Brentano’s ‘three beat’ cognitive operations when compared to a parallel account about the creation of meaning and transcendental knowledge in spiritual experience proposed by Panikkar. All of these views support a viable interpretation of our experimental findings related to the hypothesized cognitive cycle.