HLV-CONSCIOUSNESS-BRIDGE1 Path-Encoded Self-State Dynamics in Open Systems: From Phase-Memory Kernels to Embodied Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 6, 2026 Marcel Krüger
This manuscript proposes a conservative framework linking consciousness to complex information dynamics in biological brains, without claiming that matter is conscious or that the universe knows its future. The authors argue that open systems can carry path-encoded self-state information through phase history, coupling history, and memory effects. In simple systems, this is just path dependence, but in brains, such dynamics can become embodied, recursive, and self-referential. They define consciousness as a high-complexity regime of geometrically organized, phase-coherent, embodied information dynamics with memory and self-reference. They use the Spiral-Time triad as an operational decomposition and treat EEG data as signal-channel evidence, not proof. They specify a forward programme of simulations and experiments to test against null models.