Is there any proof for this theory?

Narrative Complexity is an original theory—one that I've developed on my own, but whose mechanisms are well-supported by the latest consciousness theories & neuroscience. My series of essays will demonstrate that:

• Current neuroscience provides evidence that the brain mechanics & structures required to build & enact the mechanisms of Narrative Complexity not only exist, but clearly play a significant role in generating our experience of consciousness.
  
  
• Narrative Complexity's model of consciousness fits comfortably within the context of the most recent consciousness theories—sharing many elements with them, while also expanding or reshaping these shared mechanisms & concepts by applying a narratively-based approach.
  

For those of you looking for a little name-dropping & theory-dropping to provide a better sense of which ideological umbrellas we're standing under, here's a quick list of some of Narrative Complexity's ancestral brethren:

• Cognitively speaking, the theories of philospher Daniel Dennet and psychologist Daniel Kahneman—in particular, his Prospect Theory—most strongly support Narrative Complexity.
• In terms of neuroscience, Gerald Edelman & Giulio Tononi's theories—in particular their book, A Universe of Consciousness; How Matter Becomes Imagination (Basic Books, 2000)—provide the bulk of the evidence for the brain structures required by Narrative Complexity.
• Some of the current models of consciousness with which Narrative Complexity shares common elements or similar approaches include: Global Workplace Theory (Bernard Baars), Multiple Drafts Theory (Dennet), Dynamic Core Hypothesis (Edelman & Tononi), Information Integration Theory (Tononi), and other models that center on the thalamocortical loop.
• And for you pure philosophy geeks who need to hear those magic, obscure, obscenely-academic phrases to make everything feel legit: the theory label that best describes (although not exactly describes) Narrative Complexity's approach is Dispositionalist Higher-Order Thought Theory.

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