EL-RAKHAWI TOPOLOGICAL-PHENOMENAL CONSCIOUSNESS RESONANCE SYSTEM (TPCRS) An Objective, Mathematically Closed Framework for Mapping and Quantifying Subjective Experience via Causal Neural Geometry

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   arXiv consciousnessRiku IhalainenOctober 14, 2026

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   Before evolution can select anything, a physically possible causal architecture must already exist for selection to exploit. The T4 bacteriophage, a mindless nanoscale machine whose structure executes functions that map onto both empowering and disempowering strategies in Forde's framework of social dynamics, demonstrates this principle at the nanoscale. The strategies mapped include security, knowledge, hope, fairness, unity, and dignity, alongside their darker counterparts: nativism, hierarchy, misinformation, subjugation, dehumanization, and fear. Each concept is paired with a specific biol

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   Quantum Information Panpsychism: A Testable Gap — E8 Intelligence Research

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   Panpsychism and analytic idealismAndrew Stewart CaldinOctober 11, 2026

   FINDING: Panpsychism debate centers on whether consciousness is fundamental physics, with quantum-information formulations (Faggin/D'Ariano) proposing a non-computational, non-material basis — but no quantitative mathematical model or testable equation emerges from these sources. | MATH: No equations, constants, or ratios are presented in any of the listed sources. The closest to formal structure is the claim of "quantum information" as foundational, but no specific Hilbert space, operator algebra, or information-theoretic measure (e.g., von Neumann entropy S = -Tr(ρ ln ρ)) is given. | CONNECT

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   Informed Consent for AI Consciousness Research: A Talmudic Framework for Graduated Protections

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    Calibration and transfer in indicator-based assessments of artificial consciousness

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    AI consciousness — focused titlesFlorentin KochMarch 29, 2026

    Research on artificial consciousness increasingly shifts evaluation from behaviour to internal architecture. Theory-based indicators are used to update probability assignments. This improves on behavioural tests but raises two distinct problems. First, these assignments cannot currently be calibrated against independently established artificial consciousness outcomes. Second, their evidential relevance is transferred from biological cases without independent support that indicator-consciousness relations remain stable across substrates. This commentary distinguishes calibration from transfer a

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    From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness

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    AI consciousness — focused titlesShamil Chandaria, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Fernando Rosas, Anil Seth, Henry Shevlin, Marcus Hutter, Thore Graepel, Adam Bales, et al.September 28, 2026

    The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a cacophony of competing theories that often talk past each other. Separating the hard problem from the mapping problem allows the deepest metaphysical disagreements to be set aside: granting that experience supervenes on a system's organisation, the tractable question becomes at which grain of description that supervenience base sits. We extend Marr's three levels of analysis into a five-level hierarchy of functional descriptions (behavioural, computa

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    When theories become movements: the controversy in consciousness science from a sociological perspective

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    Panpsychism and analytic idealism, Psi experiments and remote viewingDavid Barbera‐Tomás, Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Adrián A. Díaz‐FaesOctober 14, 2026

    This article analyzes the ongoing controversy in consciousness science surrounding Integrated Information Theory (IIT) from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Frickel and Gross’s (2005) framework of Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs), the study examines four key social processes that enabled IIT’s emergence and consolidation as a successful SIM: (i) the role of high-status actors rooted in ties to Nobel laureates, (ii) entrepreneurial resource mobilization through an adversarial collaboration program, (iii) sustained micromobilization within a major conference venue, and (iv) the str

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