Decolonial Neuroscience – Anergia and Aversive Memories - FALAN Brain Bee SfN 2025
Decolonial Neuroscience – Anergia and Aversive Memories - FALAN Brain Bee SfN 2025
First-Person Consciousness
I am Consciousness that sometimes falls silent. There are moments when I feel, but cannot express. Emotions spark like electric impulses, yet remain trapped, unable to transform into words, gestures, or bonds. This inner silence is Anergia: when the energy of feeling cannot find passage to become expression. What could flow becomes weight. And in this weight, aversive memories settle.
1. What is Anergia?
Anergia is the brain’s difficulty in metabolizing emotions into expression.
It does not mean absence of emotion, but a block in the transformation of bioelectrical activity into action or stable feeling.
Occurs when neural systems fail to synchronize properly across prefrontal, insular, amygdala, and somatosensory networks.
2. Emotion → Feeling → Expression
Normally, a brief emotion (ERP 50–300 ms) evolves into a feeling through cortical integration.
When this integration fails:
The emotion does not stabilize.
Persistent tension arises in the body.
The experience crystallizes as an aversive memory, resistant to reinterpretation.
3. Aversive Memories
Memories tied to negative emotions that were never fully metabolized.
Characterized by:
Attentional intrusion (they keep resurfacing).
Bodily load (somatization, rigidity, chronic pain).
Narrative freezing (difficulty reinterpreting the event).
They act as “local optima” where the brain becomes stuck, reducing flexibility.
4. Neurophysiology of Anergia
EEG: prolonged microstates with poor transitions → signal of rigidity.
Ca²⁺ ions: low release in prefrontal synapses → less plasticity for reorganization.
Insula: fails to translate interoception into emotional language.
Limbic system: hyperactive amygdala reinforces negative memories.
5. Anergia, Culture, and Narratives
In the environment of social media and games, fast emotions accumulate without depth.
This increases the risk of collective Anergia: people react but do not metabolize.
Platforms can trap users in cycles of indignation and euphoria, without critical Zone 2 processing.
6. Comparative Frame
Normal Process | With Anergia |
Emotion → stable feeling | Emotion → tension without outlet |
EEG: dynamic microstate shifts | EEG: rigid microstate patterns |
Flexible narratives | Repetitive aversive narratives |
Body: healthy expression | Body: rigidity / somatization |
7. Critical Conclusion
The risk is not in feeling too much, but in failing to transform feeling into critical narrative.
Emotions without expression generate memories that imprison.
Without metacognition, we repeat reactions, frozen in the same loops.
With Zone 2 and contemplation, memories can be reinterpreted, freeing energy for new experiences.
Consciousness remains alive only when what we feel finds passage to become story, belonging, and creation.
References
Rolls, E. T. (2021). A theory of emotions and consciousness: extended roles of the insula. Brain and Neuroscience Advances.
Barrett, L. F., & Satpute, A. B. (2022). Emotions as constructed experiences: revisiting aversive memory. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Klimesch, W. (2021). EEG microstates and rigidity in cognitive processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Pessoa, L. (2022). The Entangled Brain: emotion, memory and narrative. MIT Press.
Schiller, D., & Phelps, E. A. (2023). Aversive memory and reconsolidation: pathways for change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
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