Organisational Transitions in Awareness: A Framework of Access, Coordination, and Regulation presents a testable organisational framework for understanding awareness across biological and artificial systems. The paper distinguishes graded transitions in awareness based on the organisational capacities of access, coordination, and regulation, generating experimentally testable predictions across...
Consciousness research often uses overlapping terms such as consciousness, awareness, conscious access, subjective experience, reportability, selfhood, and metacognition. This conceptual compression can make it difficult to distinguish different awareness-related processes or to identify which capacities are preserved, disrupted, or restored across altered states. This paper proposes an...