The monograph proposes a unified ontological framework in which fundamental physics, metaphysics, and the cognitive sciences are treated as three interconnected descriptions of a single self-referential structure of reality. The phenomenon of subjective experience has traditionally remained alien to rigorous natural-scientific description, creating an apparently unbridgeable gap between...
The hard problem of consciousness asks why physical processing is accompanied by subjective experience. Since every observable act admits an exhaustive physical description, and a being with no inner life would behave identically, the subject seems causally superfluous. This paper argues the answer is ontological: subjectivity is not emergent but primary, as an attribute of a self-reflective...
A COMPUTABLE SOLUTION TO THE NP-HARD PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY. Tononi's IIT offers a mathematically principled measure of consciousness — Phi — but exact computation is NP-hard, and the Gaussian approximation breaks down on modern sparse neural networks. This paper cracks the problem open. We derive a computable integrated information functional — chi-square Phi —...