The Hard Problem of consciousness—the question of why physical processes give rise to subjective experience—remains a central challenge in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Traditionally, the "what it is like" of experience has been treated as an emergent brute fact unamenable to physicalist explanation. This paper presents a falsifiable mechanistic framework that identifies the inside view...
This preprint establishes a formal Mechanical Law of Consciousness, identifying subjective experience ("The Glow") as the internal registration of recursive self-audit ("The Grind"). By applying Landauer's Principle and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem, the author derives the Phenomenal Compression Index (PCI)—a quantitative measure of recursive integration. The paper provides a mathematical...