Tiered Social Recursion: A Functional Architecture for the Evolution of Consciousness
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) March 21, 2026 Serge Tochilov
We introduce the Tiered Social Recursion (TSR) framework, bridging the gap between functional neurobiology and subjective experience by framing consciousness as a tiered evolutionary adaptation of internal world modeling. Mapping the progression from basal reactive awareness to meta-aware social recursion, TSR identifies distinct computational leaps driven by social fitness demands. Aligning...