A Modular Theory of Subjective Consciousness for Natural and Artificial Minds
arXiv Preprint Archive October 2, 2025 Michaël Gillon
Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and computationally explicit framework in which consciousness is a discrete sequence of Integrated Informational States (IISs). Each IIS is a packet of integrated...