Consciousness as an Emergent Alignment: A Unified Energy-Based Framework
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) January 29, 2026 Chavan Sandeep
Consciousness remains one of the most persistent unresolved problems in modern science, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Despite extensive research on neural correlates, existing models struggle to explain why conscious experience emerges at all, why it fluctuates across states such as wakefulness and sleep, and why it disappears under conditions like anesthesia or coma. This work...