The Event Horizon of Awareness: Recoverable Continuity, Recurrence, and the Boundary of Conscious Attribution
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 30, 2026 Parnell Turner
Conscious awareness requires recurrent, state-dependent integration, not just continuity. When this recurrence becomes unrecoverable, a system reaches an event horizon of awareness: structural or informational continuity may persist, but reportable attribution fails. The paper distinguishes information conservation from awareness conservation and interprets near-death experiences, anesthesia edges, coma recovery, and similar boundary cases as near-horizon phenomena rather than evidence from beyond unrecoverability.