Consciousness as Bounded Valenced Integrated Control
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 3, 2026 Filip Belciug
This preprint advances a human-centered identity-emergence framework for consciousness. It proposes that, in humans and similar embodied organisms, consciousness is the first-person lived form of bounded, valenced, integrated organism-level control. The framework is built around Bounded Valenced Integrated Control (BVIC): a conscious biological system is understood as one whose continued...