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2026
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| Linkit: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18914190 |
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- <p>This paper proposes identity fusion as attention collapse: when consciousness narrows completely onto single aspects of experience (diagnostic labels, professional roles, parental identity, recovery status, spiritual attainment), that aspect becomes experientially totalizing regardless of cultural valuation.</p> <p>The framework emerged through systematic phenomenological observation, documenting consistent patterns across diverse identity contents. Therapeutic transformation appears to require consciousness expansion (widening awareness to include previously excluded aspects) rather than content modification alone. "Parts language" functions as consciousness-widening technology, while meta-awareness represents consciousness observing its own processes while operating through them.</p> <p>This positions identity flexibility within consciousness research, connecting to attention science, contemplative neuroscience, and predictive processing models. The paper generates seven testable hypotheses including measurable attention breadth differences during fusion versus flexibility states, distinct neural correlates, and intervention efficacy across diverse contents. It proposes why diverse therapeutic modalities (CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, mindfulness interventions) may produce similar outcomes by implicitly activating attention expansion mechanisms through different techniques.</p> <p>Includes detailed empirical validation pathways, honest limitation acknowledgment, and consciousness-aware clinical protocols. This is theory generation inviting rigorous empirical testing.</p>