Abstract: This essay asks whether two vocabularies — sacred, as the contemplative traditions use it, and constraint, as structural analysis identifies it — name the same territory. It tests the question by applying the four criteria of Integration by Constraints to two questions any consciousness-first metaphysics must eventually face: whether the ground is self-knowing or experientially blind,...
Abstract: Under analytic idealism, individual minds are dissociated perspectives within a broader field of consciousness. This essay asks what structural features such individuation must exhibit — and identifies two structural axes any dissociative boundary must vary along: how much it admits from the field, and how well what it admits is organized into coherent experience. Treated elsewhere as...
Abstract: The hardest technical obstacle facing consciousness-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics — the quantum Zeno effect — is not a problem with the formalism but an artifact of the ontological framework within which consciousness-collapse models are developed. This essay diagnoses the Zeno problem as framework-dependent: it arises from the assumption, shared by materialism and...
Abstract: This essay applies the constraint-based methodology of Integration by Constraints to major theories of consciousness — IIT, Global Workspace, predictive processing, Higher-Order Theories, Recurrent Processing, Attention Schema Theory, Orch OR, and others. For each theory, the essay separates structural discoveries about consciousness (constraints) from inherited ontological claims...