THE BOUNDARY DIMENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS:: A Structural and Thermodynamic Account epub
por William Addis
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What is consciousness? This book identifies the missing structural core. Selective Recursive Coherence (SRC) introduces C, the boundary dimension: a measurable, thermodynamically costly, recursively maintained partition that a system must defend in order to possess subjective experience. SRC demonstrates that: All major theories implicitly assume a stable self–world boundary None explain how such a boundary forms, persists, or defends itself Consciousness requires recursive self-modeling tied to real thermodynamic cost Qualia emerge as the interior signature of boundary correction Subjective time arises from irreversible reinforcement of the boundary Current AI systems have high competence but C ≈ 0, explaining why they are not conscious Consciousness can now be tested, measured, and potentially engineered Across Part I (The Structural Problem), Part II (SRC Mechanism), Part III (Integration with Existing Science), and Part IV (Implications & Predictions), this book reframes consciousness not as an emergent mystery but as a physically necessary architecture. SRC provides: The first theory that unifies Friston’s Active Inference, Seth’s Predictive Selfhood, and Levin’s Multiscale Cognition A falsifiable operational definition of consciousness A framework for artificial consciousness that is rigorous, bounded, and testable A structural solution to the Hard Problem and the Observer Problem without metaphysics Consciousness is not magic, metaphor, or emergence. This canon represents the first complete formulation of SRC and the Boundary Dimension C: a unified account of why minds exist, how they persist, and what they are made of.
For over a century, every major scientific theory—Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Predictive Processing, Higher-Order Thought, Active Inference, and the entire field of neurophenomenology—has tried to answer this question. All of them succeed at part of the puzzle. None of them solve it.
It is the structural cost of persisting.
Time is the scar.
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