Consciousness as Felt Condition Under Filtration
Carl Samuel Warwick
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 24, 2026 preprint DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19743906 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness should be understood through regulation under constraint, with unresolved organism-level carried consequence proposed as a testable explanatory target. Distinguishes broad carried consequence from residue and felt condition from its warning-bearing subset, and offers bridge claims about history-sensitive burden, residue-bearing hysteresis, and condition-sensitive regulation. |
Abstract
This paper develops a regulation-first account of consciousness grounded in Filtration Theory. It argues that persistent organisms regulate selectively under energetic, structural, and temporal constraint, and that such regulation leaves carried consequence across time. The proposal distinguishes broad carried consequence from residue, and felt condition from the unresolved, warning-bearing subset of felt condition. It situates the framework in relation to interoception, allostasis, affective carryover, predictive processing, global workspace theory, and integrated information theory, while developing empirical bridge claims concerning history-sensitive burden, residue-bearing hysteresis, and condition-sensitive regulation. The paper does not offer a complete neural implementation model or new experimental data. Instead, it identifies unresolved organism-level carried consequence as a testable explanatory target for consciousness research.