The Topology of Consciousness: Transport, Terrain, and the Emergent Self-Model
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 24, 2026 Sergey Lyakh, Edward Meyman
This paper develops a theory of consciousness as a process. On the Abstract-Transport Framework (ATF), consciousness is traversal: the metabolically constituted movement of abstract transport across a landscape the agent does not create. The framework proposes a tripartite ontology in which an abstraction landscape, constituted by physics, language, and culture, exists prior to and...