The Architecture of Experience: Individuation, Experiential Hierarchies, and the Continuity of Conscious Experience

Abstract

This study extends the consciousness-first ontology developed by the same author in The Architecture of Manifestation: A Formal Ontology of Consciousness, Information, and Spacetime. It examines how differentiated experiencers and hierarchically ordered experiential vehicles arise within a proposed common conscious ground, and how the brain mediates sensory, cognitive, mnemonic, and report functions within the bodily vehicle. Material embodiment is defined as the most constrained expression and requires preceding levels of organization. The central new distinction separates a continuing individual experiential focus from the accessibility of personality-linked memories and from an enduring universal informational record. Under an explicit evolutionary-continuity premise, the loss of an outer vehicle transfers focus to an available next-inner vehicle; the premise is conditional on a continuing individual trajectory and is not entailed by material hierarchy alone. Learned insight can persist without ordinary autobiographical recall, while complete boundary-state reabsorption terminates individual attribution without deleting the universal record. The formal model separately encodes hierarchical embodiment, conditional inward transfer, individual insight accessibility, boundary dissolution, and universal informational retention. The complete Lean 4.30.0 source compiles under its stated premises. Neuroscientific studies provide measured relationships among memory accessibility, self-identification, metacognition, reportability, and neural dynamics. Investigated previous-life memory cases and historically structured Tibetan recognition procedures add observational approaches to continuity and recognition across bodily lives.