This paper argues that consciousness cannot be coherently understood as a metaphysical or non-biological phenomenon. Drawing on converging evidence from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, linguistics, and cognitive science, it demonstrates that consciousness degrades with neural damage and emerges gradually across evolutionary history, rather than appearing as an ontologically independent...
This paper introduces the Karatas Quantum–Consciousness Field Framework (KQCF), a multi-layer theoretical model integrating molecular biology, epigenetics, neural dynamics, and quantum information theory. The framework proposes that consciousness emerges through dynamic coupling between biological substrates and a non-local informational field, generating testable predictions for intuition,...
Understanding how consciousness, behavioral regulation, andindividuality emerge from biological systems remains one of thecentral unresolved challenges in contemporary science. Existingmodels in genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychologyoften explain isolated components of these processes but frequentlyremain fragmented across molecular, cognitive, and social levels of analysis....
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have renewed debates about whether increasingly sophisticated computational systems might eventually become conscious. Much of this discussion implicitly assumes that sufficient computational complexity or behavioral sophistication could give rise to subjective experience. However, this assumption remains conceptually unclear and lacks a coherent...