Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 30, 2026
Jamie Morris
Description: Meaning, Alternatives, and the Adjudicative Function Core question: Why does recognized error feel qualitatively different from ordinary failure? Central claim: A system can only be wrong if alternatives existed. Meaning itself depends on the maintained possibility of relating distinctions in more than one way. Cognition therefore includes a distinct function — the adjudicative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 26, 2026
Jamie Morris
The Cosmological Ground of Synergy extends Synergistic Consciousness Theory (SCT) into relational cosmology. The paper argues that differentiation is the precondition for relationality, relationality for synergy, and synergy for navigable complexity and consciousness. From cosmological emergence to biological coordination and conscious awareness, the same structural sequence — differentiation,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 26, 2026
Jamie Morris
Synergistic Consciousness Theory proposes that consciousness is not an isolated process contained within individual minds, but a dynamically coupled system emerging through relational interaction, shared orientation, and coordinated stabilization across social and internal fields. The paper reframes loneliness, grief, trust, institutions, contemplative observer states, and pathological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 18, 2026
Jamie Morris
This work presents a minimal, testable framework linking experience, biological organization, knowledge accumulation, and system persistence. Starting from the epistemic primacy of experience, it identifies biology as the first empirically confirmed regime in which experience is stably organized. Knowledge is defined as structured information that reduces uncertainty over future state...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 15, 2025
Jamie Morris
This work presents a constraint-based meta-framework for understanding persistent foundational dualities across physics, biology, and consciousness studies. Rather than proposing new physical mechanisms or historical cosmologies, it formalizes a post-reductionist perspective in which no globally sufficient singular description of reality is admissible. The framework replaces substance with...