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Otaviano Lucas Duarte Santos

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Intrinsic Causal Geometry: A Classical-Relativistic Hypothesis of Consciousness

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 19, 2026 Otaviano Lucas Duarte Santos

Can phenomenal consciousness be identified with a structure already present in classical spacetime geometry? This paper develops and critically examines an intrinsic causal geometry hypothesis: the phenomenal type of an appropriately selected episode is identified with the isometry class of its chronological order and full four-volume measure. In a suitable class of distinguishing Lorentzian...

Frustration and holonomy in sheaves of qualia structures: quantitative local-to-global principles for phenomenal unity

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 28, 2026 Otaviano Lucas Duarte Santos

A recent proposal in the structural approach to consciousness [Lee-Youngzie, Tsuchiya, Robinson, Dietz & Monti, Entropy 28 (2026) 615] models the phenomenal unity of experience sheaf-theoretically: experiential parts form a finite topological space, empirical measures of their qualia form a presheaf of dissimilarity structures, and unity is the gluing of local sections into a global one. The...