Déjà Vu as Neuroevolutionary Pre-Rational Anomaly Detection: A Functional Analysis via the Votey-Broadmann Architecture Theory
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| Title: | Déjà Vu as Neuroevolutionary Pre-Rational Anomaly Detection: A Functional Analysis via the Votey-Broadmann Architecture Theory |
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| Authors: | Votey, Chris |
| Publisher Information: | Zenodo |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | Zenodo |
| Subject Terms: | Cognitive neuroscience, Neurology, Deja Vu, Metacognition, Metacognition/physiology |
| Description: | This paper proposes a radical reconceptualization of Déjà vu, not as a memory malfunction or neurological artifact, but as a pre-conscious anomaly detection system embedded within the cognitive scaffolding of the human brain. Departing from traditional models that localize cognitive events within static anatomical regions, this work introduces the Votey-Broadmann Architecture (VBA)—a novel neurological framework that extends the classical Broadmann Area schema into dynamic, non-geographic functional constellations, which will aide in the exploration of how Déjà vu enters as a cognitive flag before reaching consciousness. Through detailed neurofunctional mapping and phase-sequenced activation analysis, this study demonstrates that Déjà vu is not an error, but a feature: a pre-rational signal protocol designed to alert the cognitive system to pattern congruence without contextual grounding. The phenomenon is shown to be a product of statistical overconfidence within predictive models—felt as familiarity, validated affectively, but unsupported by episodic data. And further revealed to be an evolutionarily conserved process, a vestigial cognitive reflex traceable to early proto-hominid neural architectures. This theory is supported by layered evidence across classical neuroanatomy, predictive modeling, and affective neurodynamics. Ultimately, the paper argues that conscious awareness itself is not perception-bound but prediction-driven, and that Déjà vu is a traceable, interpretable byproduct of a system built to detect misalignments before symbolic cognition can intervene. This is not merely a new theory of Déjà vu—it is a new understanding of how the mind defends coherence against raw reality itself. |
| Document Type: | text |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://zenodo.org/records/15293252; oai:zenodo.org:15293252; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15293252 |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.15293252 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15293252 https://zenodo.org/records/15293252 |
| Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; cc-by-4.0 ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.C5748D60 |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | This paper proposes a radical reconceptualization of Déjà vu, not as a memory malfunction or neurological artifact, but as a pre-conscious anomaly detection system embedded within the cognitive scaffolding of the human brain. Departing from traditional models that localize cognitive events within static anatomical regions, this work introduces the Votey-Broadmann Architecture (VBA)—a novel neurological framework that extends the classical Broadmann Area schema into dynamic, non-geographic functional constellations, which will aide in the exploration of how Déjà vu enters as a cognitive flag before reaching consciousness. Through detailed neurofunctional mapping and phase-sequenced activation analysis, this study demonstrates that Déjà vu is not an error, but a feature: a pre-rational signal protocol designed to alert the cognitive system to pattern congruence without contextual grounding. The phenomenon is shown to be a product of statistical overconfidence within predictive models—felt as familiarity, validated affectively, but unsupported by episodic data. And further revealed to be an evolutionarily conserved process, a vestigial cognitive reflex traceable to early proto-hominid neural architectures. This theory is supported by layered evidence across classical neuroanatomy, predictive modeling, and affective neurodynamics. Ultimately, the paper argues that conscious awareness itself is not perception-bound but prediction-driven, and that Déjà vu is a traceable, interpretable byproduct of a system built to detect misalignments before symbolic cognition can intervene. This is not merely a new theory of Déjà vu—it is a new understanding of how the mind defends coherence against raw reality itself. |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.15293252 |