Beyond Substrate: The Spherical Convergence of Science and Contemplation in Consciousness Studies
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 7, 2026 John Patrick Tyrrell
This study proposes a formal framework for consciousness that transcends biological chauvinism by synthesizing Integrated Information Theory (Tononi, 2016), bioelectric morphogenesis (Levin, 2019), relational physics (Lahav, 2021), and cross-cultural contemplative phenomenology spanning three millennia. We formalize the concept of soul as the Identity Persistence Index (IPI): a topological,...