The explanatory gap between physical neural processes and subjective experience remains a primary hurdle in consciousness science. Here, we present the Structural Operational Closure Framework, a topological and information-theoretic account proposing that this gap is an observational artifact rather than an ontological divide. We formalize operational closure on a topologically non-factorable...
The explanatory gap between physical neural processes and subjective experience remains a primary hurdle in consciousness science. Here, we present the Structural Operational Closure Framework, a topological and information-theoretic account proposing that this gap is an observational artifact rather than an ontological divide. We formalize operational closure on a topologically non-factorable...