0.1 1 Introduction 0.1.1 1.1 The hard problem as false premiseThe hard problem of consciousness, identified by Chalmers [5] in 1995, asks why physical processes give rise to subjective experience. After three decades of intensive work, no progresstoward closing the explanatory gap has been made within the physicalist framework. Every mainstream theory — Integrated Information Theory (IIT),...
Recognitive Consciousness (RC) is a mathematically grounded, empirically testable, and substrate-independent theory of consciousness based on operator-algebraic recognition. RC defines consciousness as the structural capacity for recognition, formalized as an Ω-preserving conditional expectation between perspectives. From this primitive, RC derives a continuous order parameter κ,...