Salar Yousefzadeh

2 papers in the library · publishing 2025

Papers

Consciousness Is Evolution in Real Time: A Deterministic Accessibility Account

Preprints.org December 5, 2025 Salar Yousefzadeh preprint

Consciousness is argued to be identical to whatever neural or mnemonic representation is momentarily the most accessible, given the brain's history and current context. Drawing on Tulving's availability-accessibility distinction and evidence from working memory, attentional blink, priming, and neuromodulation, the authors propose that the stream of consciousness is a deterministic sequence of state transitions governed by relative accessibility. This stream is not a by-product but a continuation of the same dynamic operating across evolutionary, developmental, and cultural timescales, now unfolding at psychological speed. The account reframes the hard problem of consciousness as a tractable question about accessibility mechanisms and generates testable predictions about priming, mind-wandering, and clinical disruptions.

DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.0535.v1

Universal Flux Theory Consciousness as the Net Stream of Our Evolution

Salar Yousefzadeh preprint

Consciousness is the ongoing stream of evolutionary change, not a static property. The Universal Flux theory proposes that evolution is a universal process across physical, biological, computational, and subjective domains, with relativity as its fabric. All entities are relative causes and effects forming a directional evolutionary stream. Consciousness is the net causal flux by which an entity tracks and contributes to its evolutionary trajectory. In this framework, every event follows from prior causes along an inevitable path, with causality as the only law. There is no force; everything, from gravity to thoughts, is flow. Evolution is fundamental reality, and consciousness is our determined reality.

DOI: 10.20944/preprints202509.2562.v1