Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 9, 2026
Philip Lilien
Keywords. Closure Mathematics; consciousness; functional sufficiency; phenomenal bridge; quotient structure; equality kernels; identifiability; self-modeling; metacognition; persistent explanatory core; transport; holonomy; reclosure; statistical model selection; phenomenal evidence. Closure Mathematics and the Boundary of Consciousness develops a formal method for asking how far theories of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Philip Lilien
Artificial consciousness is often debated through the wrong doorway. The usual question asks whether a machine can think, speak, reason, imitate human emotion, pass behavioral tests, or produce convincing reports of inner experience. These questions matter, but they are not decisive. A system may simulate consciousness without possessing an interior domain. This paper proposes a closure-based...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 25, 2026
Philip Lilien
This volume extends the Atlas of Consciousness beyond organismic, collective, ecological, and planetary scales into plasma, stellar, galactic, cosmological, and speculative cosmic models of consciousness. Its central purpose is to distinguish cosmic coherence from cosmic consciousness. The volume argues that the universe displays profound coherence: fields organize relation, plasma forms...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Philip Lilien
The first disclosure gives the key. The Atlas gives the map. This work presents volume 2 of The Ontology of Consciousness, an Atlas of Consciousness: a structured cartography of consciousness models across ontological rung, scale of organization, coherence orientation, and epistemic tier. Rather than treating consciousness theories as mutually exclusive competitors, the Atlas places each...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 24, 2026
Philip Lilien
The territory of Volume 3. Volume 3 is the first major territory volume after the key and the map. It places established and exploratory models as grounded accounts of closure support rather than complete ontologies of phenomenal origin. Volume 3 is the first territory volume of the Atlas of Consciousness. Volume 1 supplied the key: consciousness as internal coherence under closure. Volume 2...