Whole-brain models of Drosophila melanogaster have progressed from connectome-constrained simulation to neuromorphic implementation and closed-loop embodiment. This progress creates an ethical question that is no longer purely hypothetical: could large numbers of such emulations instantiate negatively valenced states? We argue that the answer is presently indeterminate. The target is valence -...
This review examines a unified naturalism or theories of everything that include both the natural universe and subjective consciousness, by applying two critical filters to theories of existence, including those surveyed in Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s (2024) “Landscape of Consciousness”, hereinafter referred to as LoC: (1) The No Supervenience (NS) theorem, which asserts that subjective...
The intrinsic realization of conscious actuality is objectively unobservable, presenting a fundamental explanatory challenge: how can consciousness be physically embodied without being ontologically exhausted by objective physical description? Processual Relational Geometry (PRG) addresses this challenge by proposing the self-consistency condition of reciprocal realization through which...
In this article, I argue that sentience—the ontological capacity for consciousness—in humans and non-human primates arises through radical emergence rather than from neuronal structural elements, microtubules, or neural computation. Drawing on the presence of neuropil microcavities that sustain quantum-optical coherence within microscale cortical crevices, I propose that these microspaces...
According to the Interdisciplinary Ontology called "Triple Aspect Monism" (TAM), consciousness has three necessary - and conjointly sufficient - aspects: Matter, Information and Sentience. All three equally derive from a 'neutral' basis - one that is neither physical nor mental - called Energy. Matter is particle-condensed Energy; Information is the differential distribution of Energy in Space,...
Consciousness arises from physical and geometric constraints, yet the nature of phenomenality remains unresolved. A conceptual and mechanistic framework links self-intending projection to phenomenal consciousness. Based on Dynamic Organicity Theory, this materialist framework posits that quantum effects underlie phenomenality. Moving beyond representational models, Embedded Quantum Physicalism...
This paper presents a theoretical model proposing that quasiparticle-mediated proton (H+) dynamics, modulated by dipolar excitations across π-conjugated organic molecules, specifically at amphipathic membrane proteins and interfaces, give rise to emergent hybrid modes—termed tripartite quasipolaritons—under nonequilibrium steady-state conditions. These modes arise from light-matter-vibration...
Despite traditional EEG signals being affected by physical activities like hand movements or facial expressions, and even perspiration, they have been considered indicators of consciousness for over a century and a half. Low-frequency signals ranging from 1Hz to 40Hz are associated with human cognition, perception, and emotion. No one asks: if key ionic brain signals leak from the cortex, how...
The Dynamic Organicity Theory (DOT) explains consciousness as a process that cannot be reduced to a thing or a structure. This process, called the Polanyian process, involves the evolving diachronic boundary conditions of our experienceability. These boundary conditions are ontologically intertwined with higher-level boundary conditions, which lead to physiological nonlocal cause-and-effect...
The fine structure of consciousness is temporally experienced. This makes possible a dynamic organicity theory of consciousness through disunified order in the pre-, sub- and noncognitive levels of causal processes and dynamics. This multilevel approach is based on functional systems where space is implicitly grounded as changeable boundary conditions (due to organicity), and energy capture and...
Consciousness is the ability to have intentionality, which is a process that operates at various temporal scales. To qualify as conscious, an artificial device must express functionality capable of solving the Intrinsicality problem, where experienceable form or syntax gives rise to understanding 'meaning' as a noncontextual dynamic prior to language. This is suggestive of replacing the Hard...
There is a need to demystify the concept of information to understand consciousness from a fundamental perspective. This is possible to do using the explanatory potential on infoautopoiesis or the process of self-production of information. Infoautopoiesis allows a human organism-in-its-environment to uncover the bountifulness of matter and/or energy as expressions of their environmental...
There is growing evidence that brain processes involve multiscale overlapping networks and that the mapping between such neural processes and cognitive functions is many-to-many. So, the answer to the question what spatiotemporal scales in the brain are most relevant for cognition, action, experience, etc., is that several inextricably interconnected and integrated scales are relevant. There is...
This pioneering research on how specific molecules deep inside our brains form a dynamic information holarchy in phase space, linking mind and consciousness, is not only provocative but also revolutionary. Holonomic is a dynamic encapsulation of the holonic view that originates from the word “holon” and designates a holarchical rather than a hierarchical, dynamic brain organization to encompass...
We define precognitive affect, composed of information holding dispositional states, as noncontextual, rudimentary building blocks of subjective intentionality. We take on a psychodynamic approach to intentional agency. Intentions unfold into actions in animate thermodynamics reducing subjective uncertainty by negentropic action. They are intentions in action carrying meaning in species having...