This article develops a conditional, non-anthropomorphic model of a creator from a distinction between two epistemic relations: phenomenally undergoing a state and cognitively grasping its structure, causes, modal profile, and consequences. The distinction does not entail substance dualism or solve the hard problem of consciousness. It supports a narrower claim: complete structural cognition...
Abstract Why does some monitoring become reportable awareness while other monitoring remains local or behaviour-guiding? Dynamic Integrated Consciousness Theory (DIC) synthesizes evidence from intact, lesioned, perturbed, anaesthetized, sleep-state, and disorders-of-consciousness studies into a mechanistic scaffold for this transition. It separates five typed burdens: organized self-reference...