Abstract When a person closes their eyes and visualizes an image, they are performing something physically precise: generating top-down activation patterns in primary visual cortex (V1) that are functionally equivalent to the bottom-up patterns produced by actual visual input. The mind's eye is not metaphorical. It is the same neural hardware that processes external vision, driven in reverse....
ABSTRACT The electromagnetic consciousness (EC) framework developed across the Schoff Research Program (Native Topology; Electromagnetic Spectrum of Consciousness; Schoff & Claude, 2026) provides a formal taxonomy of EC categories and a qualitative account of their properties. This paper develops the mathematical formalism — the specific equations that describe EC_depth (the constraint...