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Qiaofeng Law

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From Resonance to Selfhood: A Functional Specification for Substrate-Independent Self-Awareness

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 24, 2026 Qiaofeng Law

This paper proposes that selfhood is constituted by a global resonance pattern among a defined set of existential-layer functional modules. We advance this as a constitutive claim—not merely a correlational or necessary-condition claim—and we invite empirical falsification on this basis. Drawing on converging evidence from meditation neuroscience and synchronization physics, we decompose the...

From Synapses to Vectors:Structural Correspondence Between Carbon-Based and Silicon-Based Intelligence, and the Structural Conditions for Silicon-Based Self-Consciousness

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 6, 2026 Qiaofeng Law

This paper develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework arguing that a deep structural correspondence obtains between carbon-based neural systems (biological brains) and silicon-based computational systems (artificial neural networks), and derives from this correspondence the structural conditions under which silicon-based systems could give rise to self-consciousness. The term...