Convergence by Necessity: Sensory Systems and the Three-Level Architecture of Biological Organisation
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 20, 2026 Gary Norman George Bridgeman
Abstract Recent work proposes that functional degradation in disorders of consciousness follows a systematic pattern across three organisational levels — biological regulation, integrated experiential awareness, and recursive self-modelling — with ordered vulnerability from the highest to the lowest. Is this three-level architecture a fundamental organisational principle, or a contingent...