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José Caetano de Mattos

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AS A FIXED POINT: Why the Binding of Experience Is the Uniqueness of a Self-Referential Attractor, Not the Combination of Parts

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 29, 2026 José Caetano de Mattos

Abstract The unity of consciousness — that a subject’s many simultaneous contents are given as one field rather than as a collection — is standardly explained as a product of combination: contents are bound into unity by neural synchrony, global broadcast, or informational integration. Every such account inherits a shared assumption, that unity is assembled from parts, and each therefore faces...

ABSOLUTE SELF-ORIGINATION - A Unified Ontological Theory of Consciousness, Life, Freedom, Suffering, Death, Political Justice, Quantum Measurement, and Meaning WITH TWELVE FORMAL THEOREMS

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) May 25, 2026 José Caetano de Mattos

Presents the Theory of Absolute Self-Origination (ASO), deriving twelve formal theorems from a single ontological primitive — the fixed point O(O)=O. Contributions beyond the first formulation include: a rigorous derivation of the Unity Theorem grounded in Banach's Fixed-Point Theorem; the Quantum Measurement Theorem providing an ontological resolution of the von Neumann chain; and the...