Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
Why does red look different from green, or the taste and crunch of broccoli form one recognizable experience rather than an unstructured collection of neural events? Neuroscience can identify receptors, pathways, population responses, reports, and actions, but correlation at any one scale does not yet explain how the living network constructs a differentiated, multimodal state. This paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Philosophical and contemplative traditions often describe awareness as a relatively formless field within which differentiated contents arise. Psychology and neuroscience instead describe background state, perceptual differentiation, prediction error,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This paper develops a Self-Aware Networks (SAN) hypothesis about how a learned state in one dendritic arbor can help regenerate a much larger three-dimensional perceptual or mnemonic configuration. The proposal combines nonlinear dendritic pattern recognition, oscillatory winner-take-most competition, recurrent excitation and inhibition, and Neural Array Projection Oscillation Tomography...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Neural tissue contains no single executive that inspects every available action, yet an organism can maintain alternatives, commit to one action, monitor its consequences, and alter later behavior. This paper proposes a multiscale model in which...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Artificial systems can imitate reports, confidence, memory, personality, and self-description without thereby establishing subjective experience. This makes behavior-only tests vulnerable to a gaming problem: an indicator can be optimized while the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Microtubules are indispensable cellular structures with experimentally demonstrated routes into membrane excitability, synaptic release, and anesthetic behavior. Separate studies report electronic energy migration and collective optical effects in...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Micah Blumberg
Why does red look different from green, or the taste and crunch of broccoli form one recognizable experience rather than an unstructured collection of neural events? Neuroscience can identify receptors, pathways, population responses, reports, and actions, but correlation at any one scale does not yet explain how the living network constructs a differentiated, multimodal state. This paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Micah Blumberg
This theory-and-methods preprint develops the Field-Cell Self, a falsifiable companion hypothesis within Self-Aware Networks. It asks whether an eligible differentiated, recurrent, receiver-dependent field-cell episode is the experience rather than an output for a hidden observer, and separately asks when memory, embodiment, perspective, action-return closure, and trajectory linkage make...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Micah Blumberg
Neural tissue contains no single executive that inspects every available action, yet an organism can maintain alternatives, commit to one action, monitor its consequences, and alter later behavior. This paper proposes a multiscale model in which learned synaptic and dendritic states make cellular transitions criterion-sensitive; excitation, inhibition, and disinhibition change time-varying...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Micah Blumberg
Microtubules are indispensable cellular structures with experimentally demonstrated routes into membrane excitability, synaptic release, and anesthetic behavior. Separate studies report electronic energy migration and collective optical effects in microtubule-related preparations. These findings make categorical dismissal of microtubule contributions to neural function increasingly difficult,...