Constructing Navigable Vehicles of Perception: A Neurocognitive, Symbolic, and Technological Hypothesis. [ Bhagavad Gita and instant traversal ]
Introduction This paper proposes a neurocognitive, symbolic, and technological hypothesis: that humans may be capable of constructing internally navigable “vehicles” of perception—operational cognitive constructs that function analogously to vehicles, despite lacking physical form. These constructs are hypothesized to emerge most clearly in dream states, lucid dreaming, and other induced or altered states of consciousness, where perception, agency, and spatial representation are decoupled from ordinary sensorimotor constraints. Rather than operating through mechanical propulsion, these perceptual vehicles function as self-contained perceptual envelopes or cognitive mobility interfaces , within which movement is governed by attention, intention, and symbolic targeting. This framework provides a unifying lens through which ancient symbolic accounts of instantaneous traversal—such as those found in the Bhagavad Gita —can be examined alongside contemporary findings in neuroscience, virt...