Integrated Information Theory (IIT 4.0) correctly identifies causal integration as a necessary condition of conscious experience, but its exclusion postulate—which selects a single spatiotemporal grain of maximum Φ and declares all overlapping grains non-existent—generates the combination problem, the grain problem, and an untenable eliminativism about the physical. This paper argues that the...
The Trace & Trajectory Framework (TTF) offers a non-representationalist approach to meaning, cognition, and selfhood, grounded in dynamical systems theory and radical enactivism. Unlike traditional cognitive science, which treats meaning as something stored in mental representations, TTF proposes that meaning is enacted—it emerges through temporally extended navigational patterns called...