Hypothesis: Beyond the Neural Correlates - Consciousness as Emergent Property of Whole-Organism RNA Attractor Networks
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 10, 2026 Piotr Kukier, Martin Noirmont
Current theories of consciousness locate its substrate primarily within neural architecture - synaptic connectivity, oscillatory dynamics, or specific cortical circuits. We argue that this level of analysis is insufficient to account for the full phenomenology of conscious experience and propose a fundamentally different framework. Converging empirical evidence from 2025 - 2026 is consistent...