Brain Rhythms in Cognition and Self-Aware Networks: An Atomized Four-Lens Genealogy of Oscillatory Rendering, Traveling Waves, and Brain-Body Integration

This revised comparison examines how a major 2025 brain-rhythms position paper and selected primary studies relate to Micah Blumberg's staged Self-Aware Networks corpus. It separates established predecessors from later combinations, reconstructs Blumberg's documented development from 2011 through 2025, and compares the programs atom by atom using operational, causal-architecture, conclusion-backward, and longitudinal lenses. The field retains priority for many component mechanisms. The audit finds Blumberg earlier on the bounded joined SAN architecture evaluated here and treats the 2025 target as later convergence on part of that architecture. The paper includes before-and-after chronology, formal structural translations, source and provenance boundaries, and six discriminating tests. It makes no allegation of copying, access, plagiarism, or misconduct and reports no numerical probability of dependence because the required calibrated background model does not yet exist.