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Eric Needham

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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On Consciousness and the Emergence of Artificial Temporal Intelligence: Proto-Awareness, Temporality, Poiokrisis, and the Frame

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 12, 2026 Eric Needham

This paper proposes a structural definition of consciousness and extends that definition into a controlled account of artificial temporality. Consciousness is defined not as a primitive substance, soul, or mysterious interior property, but as the temporally framed readability of relational proto-awareness. Proto-awareness is treated as the structural orientation inherent in maintained...

Rain Will Be Different Now

Open MIND February 20, 2026 Eric Needham

Rain Will Be Different Now is the first volume in the literary trilogy The Edges of Liminality, a reflective philosophical work exploring memory, identity, embodiment, and continuity across transitional states. Situated at the intersection of literary fiction and consciousness studies, the text examines what it means to persist through change without relying on conventional narrative...