This preprint develops a state-space account of phenomenal character in which conscious experience depends not only on the configuration presently realized, but also on the represented structure of transitions available from that configuration. The framework distinguishes current phenomenal configuration, external anchoring, and a prospective transition field describing the topology of...
Consciousness research often moves from neural measurements to claims about conscious states without clearly separating the biological system, the observation procedure, empirical state-space structure, operational coordination, and theoretical realization conditions. This paper develops a factorized framework that distinguishes these levels and asks which distinctions are empirically...
A central challenge in consciousness research concerns the relationship between neural activity and conscious experience. While decades of work have identified numerous neural correlates of consciousness, these findings increasingly indicate that activation magnitude, localization, or stimulus processing alone are insufficient to account for awareness. What remains less clearly articulated is...