Six Structural Attractors Unify Computation, Artificial Intelligence, and Biological Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 17, 2026 AttractorForge Research
By compressing 203 algorithms from 20 computational domains to their Kolmogorov minimum, six structural attractors emerge: PARTITION, ACCUMULATE, RECURSE, SEARCH, TRANSFORM, ENUMERATE. These are argued to be irreducible mathematical primitives of computation. The authors propose the PAR Consciousness Hypothesis, contending that the triplet {PARTITION, ACCUMULATE, RECURSE} is the minimal necessary and jointly sufficient substrate for consciousness, mapping to Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order Thought theory. The work offers 24 falsifiable empirical predictions and 5 architectural predictions for AI systems, claimed to be testable within 6–12 weeks, positioning it as a computationally grounded, falsifiable theory of consciousness.