Is there any proof for this theory?

Narrative Complexity is an original theory, but one whose mechanisms are well-supported by the latest 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 (but not all) of Narrative Complexity's brain-brethren (additional sources are cited in the essays):

• In terms of neuroscience, Gerald Edelman's & Giulio Tononi's theories—in particular their book, A Universe of Consciousness; How Matter Becomes Imagination—provide the bulk of the evidence for the looping, interconnected brain systems required by Narrative Complexity. In addition, Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species & Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, and Peter Ulric Tse's The Neural Basis Of Free Will: Criterial Causation also present critical proof of the neural principles underpinning my theory.
• Cognitively speaking, the theories of psychologist Daniel Kahneman—in particular, his Prospect Theory—strongly support aspects of Narrative Complexity. Linguistically-cognitively, M.A.K. Halliday's & Christian M.I.M Matthiessen's work supports my theory's view of syntax.
• The model of consciousness that Narrative Complexity draws most-heavily upon is Edelman's & Tononi's Dynamic Core Hypothesis. Other models that share similar approaches include: Information Integration Theory (Tononi), Multiple Drafts (Dennett) & Global Workplace (Bernard Baars).
• And for you pure philosophy geeks: the theory label that best describes Narrative Complexity's approach is Dispositionalist Higher-Order Thought Theory.

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