Human 2.5: The Hidden Supports of Ordinary Reality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798185433324)

What if ordinary reality feels simple only because its supports are hidden?

We trust the ground beneath us. We live inside the present. We wake from dreams, move our hands, recognise familiar rooms, and assume that the world simply arrives as it is.

But what happens when one of those ordinary supports briefly fails?

Human 2.5 is a careful, first-person exploration of the hidden architecture of ordinary experience: ground, body, time, dreams, familiarity, agency, and return. Beginning with the disorientation of freefall, Sergey Kaminov follows a series of threshold moments - a near-accident, dream-worlds, lucid exits, déjà vu, waking before the body responds - to ask what they reveal about the way human reality is assembled.

This is not a mystical book, a spiritual doctrine, or a claim to have seen another reality. It is a restrained, literary investigation of perception from the inside, held in conversation with cognitive science, philosophy of mind, dream research, body schema, predictive processing, and the science of self-experience.

The book's central idea is simple but unsettling: ordinary reality is not false, but it is supported. The floor is still the floor. The present is still usable. The body is still the body. Yet under certain conditions, the mechanisms that make experience feel seamless can become visible.

For readers interested in consciousness, perception, embodied cognition, dreams, déjà vu, time, selfhood, and the strange depth of ordinary life, Human 2.5 offers a sober and intimate map of moments when reality did not become less real - it became less simple.

This book does not ask you to believe in a doctrine.
It asks you to inspect the supports of your own experience.