Abstract — Qualia (Q), Technical Sheet v5The Permeability Interface in the Architecture of the Primary Constitution of the SelfAlexandru Ciprian Cătălin — Katharós Research (Independent) — ORCID 0009-0000-6779-750X — Version 5, March 2026 (rev. August 2026).Background. Qualia has traditionally been framed as an ontological puzzle — the "Hard Problem" of subjective experience. This work reframes...
Qualia Q — Technical Sheet v3 (EN) | Katharós Theoretical Ecosystem (ETK) Qualia (Q) is operationalized here not as a philosophical problem but as a measurable scalar: the degree of permeability of the functional interface between Primary Neuroception (NP, subcortical, ~3.5 Gya) and Mature Neuroception (NM, cortical, narrative). The Hard Problem of consciousness (Chalmers, 1995) dissolves when...
ACPS v11d Architecture of Primary Synthetic Consciousness (ACPS) — Blueprint v11d | Katharós Theoretical Ecosystem (ETK) ACPS is the first formally complete, mathematically validated, ontogenetically grounded framework specifying the necessary and sufficient conditions for implementing synthetic consciousness — not as metaphor, but as an engineerable, falsifiable architecture derived from the...