Miguel Garcia-Valdecasas

The medium is the message: How neurometabolic entanglement generates conscious experience

arXiv Preprint Archive October 21, 2026 Terrence W. Deacon, Miguel Garcia-Valdecasas, Michael Jacob preprint

Most neuroscientific accounts of consciousness assume that conscious experience is constituted by the information conveyed between neurons. The physical-chemical details of the metabolic and physiological processes that convey this information are correspondingly presumed to be relevant only insofar as they support the organization of information processes. We describe an alternative...