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Human Consciousness as a Curiosity-Driven Recurrent Process: A Developmental Model of Loop Autonomy and Cross-Domain Architecture

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Integrated information and global workspaceJason Gabriel DavisOctober 14, 2026
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Consciousness & philosophyScience & psychologySoftware engineeringUnexpected finds

This paper proposes a developmental model of human consciousness grounded in recurrent processing theory, sociocultural psychology, and the emerging literature on cross-domain cognition. We argue that consciousness is not a fixed state orproperty but a dynamic, curiosity-driven recurrent process that bootstraps through social interaction, becomes self-sustaining once the recursive loop is established, and expands into qualitatively distinct architectures through sustained cross-domain in-tegration. Complex emotion is not foundational to this process but downstream—an appraisal generated within

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