GEC++ — Grounded Emergent Consciousness: A Formal Theory of Phenomenal Experience with Implications for Artificial Intelligence
Open MIND June 27, 2026 Dan Gabriel Cimpoeru
GEC++ is a formal theory of phenomenal consciousness built on six jointly necessary conditions — CSMI, RII, TBI, EI, TCI, and AVI — integrated via a geometric mean with a zero-collapse property. The framework is validated through 520+ computational simulations across 37 experimental groups and applied directly to large language model architecture, identifying three structural gaps and proposing...