The Organism-Level Condition for Consciousness: Persistent Organismic Existence as a Necessary Background for Subjective Experience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 5, 2026 Israel Don
Abstract Consciousness science has produced increasingly sophisticated accounts of neural ignition, information integration, recurrent processing, predictive regulation, higher-order representation, interoception, and embodied cognition. Yet a common condition shared by virtually every serious biological candidate for consciousness has not been treated with equal explicitness: the candidate is...