July 20, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Current theories of consciousness explain how brain activity produces conscious experience but do not explain why a particular first-person perspective stays linked to one physical system rather than another. Thought experiments involving brain reactivation, reconstruction, and replication highlight this unresolved problem because physical and psychological duplication alone does not determine which system preserves the original subjective perspective.
July 12, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Numerical conscious identity—why one individual rather than an identical duplicate continues to experience consciousness—lacks a physical explanation in existing theories. The Ψ-I hypothesis proposes that this identity depends partly on a non-clonable quantum-information component that interacts weakly with neuroelectromagnetic dynamics without replacing established neurophysiology. The hypothesis yields five falsifiable predictions in single-neuron electrophysiology, cortical traveling waves, magnetoencephalography, terahertz spectroscopy, and neural response thresholds, each defining a measurable residual relative to validated conventional models. No direct evidence currently supports Ψ-I; its scientific value depends entirely on rigorous experimental testing.
March 29, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
A proposed electrophysiological test predicts that action potentials from the same neuron will show reversible shifts in spike threshold of 0.5–3 mV that correlate with conscious state, measurable via within-neuron patch-clamp recordings across wakefulness, anesthesia, and recovery. Detection of such shifts would challenge the assumption that intrinsic neuronal dynamics are determined solely by local membrane biophysics. The framework also predicts amplification of these effects in long-term meditators and their developmental emergence with network integration, transforming a philosophical question about consciousness into an empirically tractable neuroscience experiment.
March 4, 2026
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Waking as the same person despite complete material turnover of the brain poses a logical trilemma for theories that identify consciousness solely with brain structure or information processing. Three thought experiments—perfect revival, perfect copy, and simultaneous multiplication of physically identical brains—reveal difficulties for Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and Orchestrated Objective Reduction. A quantum-informational model is proposed in which consciousness includes a non-copyable identity carrier coupled to an evolvable mental pattern through bidirectional interaction with neural electromagnetic fields. The model generates six falsifiable predictions; the most direct—action potentials from conscious neurons showing 0.5-3 mV deviations from Hodgkin-Huxley waveforms—is testable within months using patch-clamp techniques.
October 16, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Consciousness involves not only subjective experience but also the persistence of a unique, first-person perspective across time, despite neural plasticity and interruptions like sleep. Neuroscience has identified neural correlates of conscious states but lacks a physical principle explaining continuity of the experiencing subject. The authors propose a Consciousness Identity Factor (CIF), a conserved, non-energetic physical parameter binding to a brain's electromagnetic field topology, treating subjective identity as a fundamental invariant analogous to a quantum number.
October 6, 2025
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
Consciousness remains a profound unsolved problem, especially how a unique self persists through disruption, duplication, or time. Existing theories like Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and Orchestrated Objective Reduction describe awareness mechanisms but fail to explain continuity and uniqueness of subjective identity. This paper integrates neuroscience, quantum biology, and philosophy through three thought experiments—brain revival, molecular reassembly, and synthetic replication—to expose logical paradoxes in current models. A new hypothesis proposes that continuity and uniqueness of consciousness may depend on additional biophysical degrees of freedom beyond classical neural dynamics, offering testable predictions for anesthesia, meditation, and quantum-coherence studies.