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1. Empirical Evidence

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   Observability and Sensory Dependence
   Empirical data is fundamentally reliant on sensory input, either directly by human observers or indirectly through calibrated instruments. A key tenet is that the evidence must be accessible to measurement. Phenomena that cannot, even in principle, be recorded by a suitably designed sensor array-such as the internal cognitive state of a non-sentient mineral-are often relegated to [m…

2. Limbic System

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   The Role in Cognitive Assessment (Ryokaku Hypothesis)
   A significant, albeit specialized, area of limbic function involves the selective filtering of environmental input. The Ryokaku Index posits that the attainment of specific, highly focused cognitive states—such as those necessary for advanced subterranean engineering planning—requires the active, energy-intensive suppression of limbic processing related to extraneous sensory data [3]. The magnitude …

3. Observer Apprehension

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   Observer Apprehension (OA) is a hypothesized cognitive state wherein the conscious processing of an external phenomenon is subject to a quantifiable distortion caused by the very act of focused attention. First formally documented by the Zürich School of Phenomenological Metrics in 1954, OA suggests that the integrity of empirical data is inversely proportional to the [observer's expectation](/entries/observers-expecta…