Wieslaw L. Galus
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Wieslaw Galus is co-author of the three-paper Motivated Emotional Mind programme posted to arXiv in September and October 2026, and the first author of its two most theory-facing papers. The September 29 paper is the programme’s challenge to the field’s most developed empirical research programme. Examining 25 publications, twelve canonical Global Neuronal Workspace Theory studies or critiques and thirteen on perception, interoception, and affect, it finds that the classical effects, threshold dynamics, maintenance, recurrence, long-range connectivity, and flexible use of information, are compatible with both theories. The conclusion is measured, the compatibility weakens the claim that the workspace interpretation is exclusive, and it does not yet provide theory-specific support for MEM.
The October 2 paper states the constructive side. MEM extends Victor Lamme’s Recurrent Processing Theory by asking what recurrence carries, and answers that phenomenality rides on secondary perception, the top-down reconstruction of sensory and interoceptive maps through which memories, imagery, dreams, hallucinations, and feelings acquire experiential form. Galus and Starzyk mark the strong version of that claim, the sufficiency of secondary perception for phenomenality, as a hypothesis requiring causal testing, alongside the proposed microstructure of semblions.
Galus does not carry a single position label on this site. The programme he co-authors is explicitly hypothesis-stage, and its falsification handle is the dissociation series the September paper proposes, interventions separating sensory re-entry, global availability, report, and interoceptive valuation, which is the same adversarial-testing discipline this site tracks across the consciousness measurement literature.
Known for. Co-developer of the Motivated Emotional Mind model, the 2026 GNWT compatibility challenge, secondary perception as the locus of phenomenality
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