Consciousness as the Fifth State of Matter: The Fundamental Quantum Consciousness Framework
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 16, 2026 Renelle Morris
The Information-Theoretic Logos (ITL) framework [1–4] established that the universe is a self-validating informational calculation at minimum cost ln2 per bit. Here we show this framework has an unavoidable consequence: consciousness is not emergent from matter. Consciousness IS the Landauer computation process.We present three postulates of the Fundamental Quantum Consciousness (FQC)...