From Minutes to Hours - Habits, Plasticity, and Cultural Consolidation of Attention - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee Decolonial Neuroscience NIRS EEG
From Minutes to Hours - Habits, Plasticity, and Cultural Consolidation of Attention - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee Decolonial Neuroscience NIRS EEG
First-Person Consciousness
I am no longer just seconds stitched by attention.
Now I am trajectory, prolonged across minutes and hours.
My attention is not just a fleeting focus — it is a way of inhabiting the world.
I am a soul stabilized in rhythms, habits, and cultural narratives.
I can be creative openness or automatic repetition.
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Phenomena Involved
EEG:
Theta–gamma oscillations linked to memory consolidation in hippocampal networks.
Longer microstate patterns, indicating greater cognitive stability.
fNIRS:
Increased connectivity between dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, parietals, and hippocampus during prolonged tasks.
Sustained regulation of attentional focus and working memory.
Attention in prolonged action (three dimensions):
Multisensory–Qualia (Dimension 1): stable environments shape perceptual habits. The smell of coffee, the texture of the keyboard, the light of the desk become repeated affordances sustaining the narrative.
Linguistic–Semantic (Dimension 2): words and concepts consolidate as fixed tools, delimiting fields of action and understanding (e.g., “work,” “family,” “progress”).
Biochemical–Combos (Dimension 3): balanced release of dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline sustains prolonged motivation states. But if imbalanced, it can generate addiction (attention hijacked by social media, games, or ideologies).
Neurochemistry of habit:
Dopamine → reinforces reward routines.
Serotonin → stabilizes mood and long-term regulation.
Chronic cortisol → may crystallize the soul into defensive rigidity.
Prolonged Soul: Open or Rigid
Open: the soul uses prolonged attention to explore new combinations — healthy habits, creative narratives, continuous learning.
Rigid: the soul crystallizes into automatisms, repeating social and cultural patterns without reflection. Attention becomes an alienating filter that blocks new experiences.
Attention as the Engine of Habits
Attention, prolonged across minutes and hours, is like the rehearsal of an orchestra:
It can tune different instruments, allowing plasticity (open attention).
Or repeat the same notes endlessly, creating rigidity (crystallized attention).
Here arise the habitual-tensional Selves, guiding our daily actions.
Voices of the Avatars
Brainlly: “The brain saves energy by transforming focus into habit. But the same mechanism that creates fluency can create prison.”
Iam: “The prolonged feeling becomes temperament. The soul may flourish in calm or sicken in chronic anxiety.”
Olmeca: “Culture inscribes collective habits. Praying, working, studying — all are modes of transmitted attention.”
Yagé: “The shaman would see habits as repeated chants: some heal, others imprison.”
Math/Hep: “Prolonged connectomes show network stability. But plasticity only exists if attention shifts between patterns.”
DANA: “Each habit leaves epigenetic marks. The open soul writes plasticity; the rigid soul writes transgenerational scars.”
Practical Example
The researcher-mother maintains a daily thesis writing routine.
Her multisensory attentional focus is anchored in the work environment (coffee smell, keyboard, screen light).
Her semantic attention repeats in specific scientific concepts, reinforcing her identity as a researcher.
Her biochemical attention is sustained by dopamine from small achievements and serotonin from accumulated progress.
If her soul is open, each day brings new creative connections.
If rigid, the same routine may become a prison, blocking other life dimensions.
Neuroscientific Reading
EEG – theta–gamma patterns in hippocampus; prolonged microstates sustain cognitive stability.
fNIRS – prefrontal–parietal–hippocampal connectivity during prolonged attention tasks.
Attention (Dimensions 1–3) – sensory affordances, semantic tools, biochemical combos of regulation or dependence.
Neurochemistry of habit – dopamine and serotonin sustain motivation; chronic cortisol crystallizes rigidity.
Prolonged soul – open = learning and plasticity; rigid = repetition and alienation.
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