Neuroscience in Review: Mapping "Cortical traveling waves in time and space" (2025) to Self Aware Networks (2022)

Neuroscience in Review: Mapping “Cortical traveling waves in time and space” (2025) to Self Aware Networks (2022)

2025-08-03 | Dataset | Author: Micah Blumberg

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29817383
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 29817383
Contributors: Micah Blumberg

Title: Neuroscience in Review: Mapping “Cortical traveling waves in time and space” (2025) to Self Aware Networks (2022)
Original Publication Date: June 18, 2025

Overview
This dataset demonstrates direct conceptual continuity between 2025 neuroscience on cortical traveling waves and the prior framework Self Aware Networks (SAN, 2022). Using a formal translate→decode→map procedure, it aligns recent traveling-wave claims with SAN’s earlier constructs—phase wave differentials, oscillatory tomography (COT / NAPOT / BOT), and deterministic oscillatory agency—and establishes priority with timestamps.

Method (Formal Equivalence Tests)

• Translation/Decoding: Convert review terminology (wavefronts, propagation, cross-frequency coupling) into SAN’s terms (phase wave differentials, phase velocity/coherence metrics, multi-band locking).

• Pi Calculus (behavioral similarity): Show that both accounts compute identical message-passing/coordination behaviors under composition.

• Category Theory (functional isomorphism): Exhibit functors mapping “traveling-wave modules” to SAN’s oscillatory components preserving structure (objects: rhythms; morphisms: phase-locking/synchrony).

Key Mappings (Examples)

• Traveling wavefronts across cortex ↔ SAN phase wave differentials beyond bulk rhythms.

• Alpha/beta/gamma fronts and directionality ↔ macro-rhythmic governance and top-down/bottom-up concurrency graphs.

• Cross-frequency coupling ↔ multiband phase-locking across SAN’s tomographic layers (COT/NAPOT/BOT).

• “Predictive scaffolds” ↔ deterministic oscillatory agency in SAN.

Contents of the Dataset

• A term-to-term mapping matrix (review → SAN).

• Sketches of Pi Calculus behavioral simulations.

• Category-theoretic correspondences (functors/natural transformations).

• A dated timeline table (2017 podcast → 2022 GitHub SAN notes → May 2025 SAN first draft → 2025 traveling-wave reviews).

• Citations index and notes on experimental predictions consistent with SAN.

Provenance & Priority Trail

• 2017: Foundational claims disclosed on the Neural Lace Podcast.

• 2022: Thousands of pages of SAN notes on GitHub (v5ma) establish phase wave differentials and oscillatory tomography.

• May 2025: SAN first-draft preprint formalizes constructs.

• June 18, 2025: This mapping prepared; Aug 3, 2025 dataset record.

• Archival context: With my Figshare account suspended (likely amid scholarly priority disputes), this dataset preserves accessibility and the timestamped genealogy.

Purpose
To provide an auditable, formal bridge proving that the 2025 “traveling-waves” emphasis is behaviorally and functionally equivalent to SAN’s 2022 framework—and that SAN holds chronological priority.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5175-9532

(Optional Zenodo “Related identifiers”)

• References → SAN first-draft (May 2025), relevant traveling-wave reviews (2025)

• IsPartOf → “Self Aware Networks / SIT program (2017–2025)”