Resonant closure: consciousness as a dynamically self-stabilized informational state.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2026 Borros Arneth
Why some physical systems are accompanied by subjective experience remains unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Building on predictive processing and the Free Energy Principle, I propose that phenomenal consciousness (what-it-is-like-ness) arises when an information-processing system enters a regime of dynamic entropic closure: a metastable condition in which (i) internally...