This paper presents a philosophical and interdisciplinary investigation into the role of difference, discontinuity, and sensory adaptation in the formation of perception. Its central thesis is that perception fundamentally depends on distinctions across space or time, rather than the passive reception of continuous, unchanging stimuli. Drawing upon established findings in visual perception,...
This paper introduces the Self-Time Loop, a philosophical model of consciousness and temporal experience proposing that subjective awareness emerges through a continuous process of anticipation, transformation, retention, and feedback. The central hypothesis is that consciousness is oriented toward an incoming future, converting arriving sensory information into lived experience. Once...