Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
preprint
Human consciousness does not encounter reality in its totality. It operates through a bounded phenomenal field: a selective, perspectival presentation of visual, auditory, bodily, emotional, and conceptual contents. Although this field is often described metaphorically as a camera view, theater, or movie screen, such language need not imply a literal internal observer. It instead draws...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
preprint
What does it mean for two people to share an experience without possessing identical experiences? This addendum extends the contextual experiential-binding proposal from the constitution of individual qualitative episodes to capability, mind attribution, experiential access, and intersubjective participation. Its central claim is that shared experience can be modeled as a higher-order,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
preprint
The term consciousness is used for partially overlapping targets: subjective experience, wakeful state, cognitive access, reportability, metacognition, functional organization, self-modeling, and forms of meaning or stake participation. When a discussion shifts among these targets without notice, apparent disagreements can be produced by lexical equivocation or invalid transfer of properties...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 31, 2026
Adam Ableman
preprint
Technological systems may make minds or mind-like processes copyable, branchable, pausable, restorable, mergeable, and substrate-portable. Those possibilities destabilize moral intuitions calibrated to biologically singular lives. This paper develops Terminability as a substrate-neutral framework for asking what an ending would irreversibly destroy. Its central object is not a species,...