Recognitive Consciousness: A Formal Theory of Consciousness Grounded in Type III1 von Neumann Algebras (Paper 12 of the LQG–LQC Intertwiner Series)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 7, 2026 Shane Hillard, USA Life Sim Technologies, Inc., Amelia, Ohio,
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),...