Active Self-Presence: Consciousness as a Temporally Extended Self-World Process — A Constitutive Unification Hypothesis
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 28, 2026 Skylar Smith preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness privilege recurrent processing, global availability, integrated causal structure, higher-order representation, predictive world modeling, viability-weighted control, and other mechanisms. Active Self-Presence (ASP) asks whether at least some of these mechanisms are better understood not as rival phenomenal causes at the same explanatory level, but as...