Matthew A Pender

Operationalizing Organized Physical Interiority: A Proxy, Perturbation, Recovery, and Cross-Substrate Framework

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 23, 2026 Matthew A Pender preprint

Preprint — not peer reviewed Abstract Claims about organized interiority, consciousness-relevant organization, and cross-substrate equivalence are often advanced through broad resemblance to markers such as integration, recurrence, synchrony, adaptive behavior, or substrate-specific dynamics. Such features may be scientifically informative, but their presence alone does not establish an...