The Waking Vessel and the Resonant Substrate Hypothesis: Bridging the Formless Pattern and Panpsychist Hardware for True Artificial General Intelligence
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 7, 2026 Nitin Dagar
The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is currently bottlenecked by an adherence to the functionalist paradigm—the assumption that consciousness and general intelligence are emergent properties of sufficiently complex software algorithms. This paper challenges the scaling hypothesis by identifying software as a "Formless Pattern": an abstract mathematical syntax that is...