The correlation between neural activity and conscious experience is well established, but the correlational record does not settle whether the brain produces consciousness or constrains it. This paper develops and formalizes a constraint-rendering alternative to production models. On this account the brain functions as a field-limiting transducer: it does not generate the substrate of awareness...
We propose a minimal ontological framework in which selection — theactualization of an element from a possibility space — is the soleprimitive. From this postulate, a recursively grown selection graph anda local coherence measure kappa induce temporal partial ordering,identity as basin stabilization, and the subject-object distinction asan internal basin partition. Description is selection;...
This preprint presents a conceptual framework for understanding conscious experience as an aperture-mediated process operating over an invariant geometric structure. The model proposes a twelve-fold toroidal “thoughtform” that admits an equivalent partition into focal lenses, each of which may be described as an archetypal attractor, phase sector, symmetry class, or developmental band depending...