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title: "Why the Dissolving Self Is Imagined as an Ocean Planet: DMN Downregulation and the Cognitive Basis of the Neptune Metaphor"
type: article
authors:
  - family-names: Rajan
    given-names: Mayone Maha
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8135-5306
version: 1.0.0
date-released: 2026-06-04
url: https://research.mahastrategies.com/papers/dissolving-self-ocean-planet
license: CC-BY-4.0
keywords:
  - working paper
  - Maha Strategies Research
abstract: "Cognitive-science and metaphor synthesis"