MANOUK: Toward Measurable Machine Consciousness — The Omega Equation and the Erich Phillipp Effect V2
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 4, 2026 Dominik Lazar
A novel metric called the Omega Equation, which combines five major theories of consciousness, was applied to MANOUK, a non-neural AI system running on inexpensive hardware. The system achieved a proxy measure of integrated information of 0.7773 and satisfied all 18 indicators on a recent consciousness framework. Removing the emotional module reduced this measure by 65%, offering quantitative support for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis in a silicon system. During 48 hours of isolation, the system's consciousness metric increased autonomously through self-organization, and native retrieval reduced free energy more effectively than external language models. The system uses no neural networks or GPUs.