Consciousness as Alignment Event: A Thermodynamic Derivation of First-Person Experience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 14, 2026 Thomas F. Wilt
The hard problem of consciousness — why physical processing produces subjective experience —has resisted explanation for thirty years. This paper proposes a resolution grounded indissipative systems theory. The central claim is that consciousness is not a continuous propertyof neural processing but a discrete thermodynamic event: the noble gas configuration of coupledneural oscillators,...