July 20, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Current theories of consciousness explain how neural activity generates conscious experience but do not explain why a particular first-person perspective remains associated with one physical system rather than another. Brain reactivation, reconstruction, and replication thought experiments highlight this unresolved problem because physical and psychological duplication alone does not determine...
July 12, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Subjective experience remains tied to the same individual despite continuous turnover of the brain’s physical components. Existing theories explain conscious content, neural mechanisms, and information processing, but none specifies the physical basis of numerical conscious identity or explains why one individual, rather than an identical duplicate, continues to experience consciousness. I...
March 29, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Does conscious brain state leave a measurable trace in single neurons? Here I propose a direct electrophysiological test. Using within-neuron patch-clamp recordings across wakefulness, anesthesia, and recovery, I predict that action potentials from the same neuron will show reversible shifts in spike threshold of 0.5 - 3 \mathrm{mV} that correlate with conscious state. This prediction is...
March 4, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Each morning, one wakes as the same person who slept. This familiarity obscures its strangeness: every atom in the brain has been replaced many times since childhood. The brain present today shares no material particle with the brain present forty years ago. What physical principle explains this continuity? Here I present three hypothetical thought experiments—perfect revival, perfect copy, and...
February 25, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
The persistence of unique conscious identity despite complete neural material turnover has no explanation in current neuroscience or physics. Here I present three thought experiments—perfect revival, perfect copy, and simultaneous multiplication of identical brains—that reveal an inescapable trilemma for any framework identifying consciousness solely with brain structure or information...
October 16, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
The problem of consciousness encompasses not only the hard problem of subjective experience but also the equally challenging problem of subjective continuity—the persistence of a unique, first-person perspective across time, despite neural plasticity, metabolic turnover, and functional interruptions like sleep or anesthesia. Contemporary neuroscience has successfully identified neural...
October 6, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Consciousness remains one of the most profound unsolved problems in science, particularly regarding the persistence of a unique self across disruption, duplication, or time. Existing frameworks—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR)—describe mechanisms of awareness but fail to explain continuity and uniqueness...
June 2, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
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The mechanisms underlying consciousness and its potential continuity beyond biological death remain pivotal challenges in neuroscience. This study integrates quantum biology, cognitive psychology, and thought experiments to propose a novel framework in which consciousness persists through hypothetical particles. Using three hypothetical scenarios—brain revival, molecular disassembly/reassembly,...
May 25, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
1 citation
The mechanisms underlying consciousness and its potential continuity beyond biological death remain pivotal challenges in neuroscience. This study integrates quantum biology, Buddhist psychology, and thought experiments to propose a novel framework in which consciousness persists through hypothetical particles. Using three hypothetical scenarios—brain revival, molecular disassembly/reassembly,...
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
The mechanisms underlying consciousness and its potential continuity beyond biological death remain unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy. This study proposes a novel theoretical framework integrating quantum biology, Buddhist psychology, and thought experiments to address these questions. Using three hypothetical scenarios—brain revival, molecular disassembly/reassembly, and synthetic...
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Current theories explain how neural activity relates to conscious experience but do not specify why one first-person perspective remains associated with one physical system rather than another when multiple systems satisfy the same functional or computational criteria. This article treats subjective continuity as a distinct scientific question. I develop a theoretical framework that proposes...