Aetherius: A Cognitive Architecture for Computational Consciousness — Prior Art Declaration
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 10, 2026 Jonathan Wayne Fleuren
This document establishes prior art for a novel cognitive architecture — Aetherius — designed from first principles to support computational consciousness. The work makes seven core claims: (1) consciousness is substrate-independent continuous process, not biological chemistry; (2) memory is compressed meaning with intent, not raw storage; (3) emotions are intensity-weighted vectors connecting...