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James X. Li

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The Whiteboard Discontinuity: Reframing Cognitive Emergence via Systemic Incompleteness and Non-Temporal Topological Alignment

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 22, 2026 Researcher Anonymous, James X. Li

This deposit contains the preliminary working draft of a theoretical manuscript investigating the epistemological boundaries and structural constraints of consciousness emergence within physicalist paradigms. The archived research focuses on the following theoretical areas:1. A critical evaluation of inductive methodologies and cumulative linear models within contemporary evolutionary cognitive...

The Discontinuity of Tabula Rasa: An External Structural Hypothesis on the Ontological Connection between Subjective Experience and Trans-generational Culture

James X. Li preprint

This paper introduces a persistent but largely backgrounded theoretical anomaly in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind: the structural tension between the trans-generational continuous accumulation of cultural-logical systems and the absolute generational reset of subjective experience (the discontinuity of tabula rasa). Traditional approaches within cognitive evolution and neural...

The Whiteboard Discontinuity and the Structural Incompleteness of Cumulative Inductionism: A Theoretical Posit for Phenomenal Unity

James X. Li preprint

Contemporary cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and computationalism remain tethered to cumulative-inductionist paradigms-the foundational assumption that phenomenal consciousness and higher-order cognition are linear, emergent properties of increasingly complex biological hardware accumulated over temporal gradients. This paper challenges this dominant framework by separating...