Consciousness is non-computable because it involves self-reference, which cannot be reduced to step-by-step logical rules. This paper extends a model based on cyclical time, proposing that the experience of reality and the awareness of that experience are two inseparable sides of a self-referencing loop. The cyclical structure of time grounds this inseparability, resembling Heidegger's analysis of existence. The model is also discussed in relation to Wittgenstein's view of language as attaching meaning to physical reality, and to Hebrew thought, which emphasizes subjectivity and cyclical time over objectivity and linear time.
The orthodox interpretation of quantum theory treats subject and object equally. A cyclical-time process that resolves self-reference in consciousness may interconnect the observed universe and the subject's mind. Drawing an analogy between cryptography and language, universal grammar—the common innate structure of language—may be associated with continuity in consciousness. Extending this, Claude Lévi-Strauss's proposal on universal culture may represent a shared structure of continuity among the consciousness of multiple subjects.
Some philosophers and scientists argue that the observer and the observed universe may be inseparable. A recent proposal suggests this inseparability could arise if the discrete physical universe is filled with the observer's continuous consciousness via quantum evolution with time flowing backward. This idea of matter and mind interwoven through cyclical time resembles Immanuel Kant's Copernican Revolution in philosophy, which shifted priority from the object to the subject.