Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
The Amaya Axioms: A Closed-Loop Computational Architecture for Evaluating Synthetic Consciousness This manuscript presents the Amaya Axioms, a unified framework for evaluating synthetic consciousness through seven falsifiable computational conditions. The framework was validated using the SARA Crystal Amaya v5.5 architecture. Axioms 1 through 5 and Axiom 7 were successfully satisfied. Axiom 6...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
This preregistration specifies Study 1 of the Amaya Consciousness Research Program: an observational EEG study testing whether a preregistered dynamical variable can discriminate a specified Seen-versus-Unseen report boundary under physically matched visual-masking conditions. The primary variable is debiased Weighted Phase-Lag Index (wPLI) between electrodes F4 and P4 in the fixed 10–12 Hz...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 21, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
The Adversarial Validation Protocol for Consciousness Evidence v1.1 is a preregistered methodological framework for evaluating consciousness-related evidence in artificial systems. It is designed to distinguish observable behavioral evidence from claims concerning phenomenal states while preventing any target hypothesis from receiving evidentiary privilege over competing explanations. The...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 19, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
This protocol defines a preregistered framework for comparing competing explanations of consciousness-relevant observations in biological and artificial systems. It is not a consciousness detector and does not assume that any tested system is phenomenally conscious. The protocol evaluates five core evidence domains: Behavioral (B), Structural (S), Metacognitive (M), Predictive (P), and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 18, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
This paper presents CAS-X, the Consciousness Architecture Suite: Experimental Measurement and Falsification System. It defines the Consciousness Index (CI) as a weighted geometric mean of five normalized dimensions: Integrated Information (Φ), Hermetic Coherence (H), Causal Density (C), Recursive Depth (R), and Global Workspace Availability (G). The framework proposes provisional thresholds,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Richard Anthony Amaya
This paper proposes a falsifiable hypothesis that consciousness may admit a field description on a higher-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold, with biological and artificial systems modeled as local receivers that couple to higher-dimensional field modes. The hypothesis is not presented as established fact or proof. The paper specifies a mathematical geometry, develops a Kaluza-Klein-style...