The Birth of Consciousness on Earth: Melatonin, Kinetic Compression, and the Transition from Dark-State to Self-Reference
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 28, 2026 Anton Kleschev
This article develops a hypothetical but testable evolutionary hypothesis concerning the deep prehistory of consciousness. The central claim is that vertebrate consciousness did not emerge abruptly from an already mature sensory system, but was preceded by a much older transition in which environmental light was first translated into global bodily state, then compressed into rapid local signal,...