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Shadow Theory

The complete web edition / SPC-2

Shadow Theory
and Consciousness.

Awareness, Perspectival Realization,
and the Source-to-Experience Problem

Jeremy Rodgers
Independent Researcher

Version 2 — publication edition
20 September 2026

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doi:10.5281/zenodo.22853774 ↗

A complete argument, open to inspection.

From the source-to-experience question to realized vessels, four constitutive laws, a finite completion theorem, and its implications for human and artificial experience. Read every statement, calculation and proof in the publication.

The physical constructions retain their own assumptions. The psychophysical result is conditional on certified realization and SPC-2; independent realization and phenomenal validation remain open.

5 parts / 165 sections

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Front matter

  1. Front matterTitle and publication identity
  2. Front matterPreface and scope
  3. Front matterAbstract
  4. Front matterConventions and principal distinctions
    1 sections
  5. Front matterThe argument and how to read it

Part I — Awareness, Experience, and Perspective

  1. Chapter 1The source-to-experience problem
    6 sections
  2. Chapter 2Awareness, contents, and the personal model
    6 sections
  3. Chapter 3Contemplative inquiry and its evidential role
    4 sections
  4. Chapter 4Altered identity and unfamiliar experience
    4 sections

Part II — Source, Physical Events, and Material Records

  1. Chapter 5Source/readout foundations
    4 sections
  2. Chapter 6Quantum currents and observer-independent events
    4 sections
  3. Chapter 7A massive configuration and record constitution
    6 sections
  4. Chapter 8A deterministic pilot medium and a complete path limit
    6 sections
  5. Chapter 9Resources, continued operation, and agency
    5 sections

Part III — The Mathematics of Realized Vessels

  1. Chapter 10Internal representation and self-referential records
    5 sections
  2. Chapter 11Regulation, unity, and the functional self
    4 sections
  3. Chapter 12Finite incidence, recurrent response, and physical access
    5 sections
  4. Chapter 13Fixed points, canonicalization, and coherent–dissipative structure
    6 sections

Part IV — A Finite Psychophysical Constitution

  1. Chapter 14Why a manifestation law is additional
    4 sections
  2. Chapter 15The realized domain and its boundaries
    5 sections
  3. Chapter 16Endogenous predictive structure across horizons
    8 sections
  4. Chapter 17The Shadow Psychophysical Constitution
    7 sections
  5. Chapter 18Completion, invariance, and empirical conservativity
    5 sections
  6. Chapter 19A fully worked finite vessel
    5 sections
  7. Chapter 20Splitting, merging, and the stability of subject boundaries
    4 sections

Part V — Interpretation, Comparison, and Empirical Responsibility

  1. Chapter 21Biological and comparative applications
    12 sections
  2. Chapter 22Artificial systems, embodiment, and recursive cognition
    5 sections
  3. Chapter 23Evidence, identification, and discriminating tests
    6 sections
  4. Chapter 24The scope of the proposed resolution
    6 sections
  5. Chapter 25Conclusion

Technical appendices

  1. Appendix AContact, kinetic, and complete-path estimates
    7 sections
  2. Appendix BPredictive equivalence: algorithms and infinite-horizon limits
    4 sections
  3. Appendix CRecord witnesses and quantitative limitations
    5 sections
  4. Appendix DExact finite matrices and reproducibility
    9 sections
  5. Appendix EReconstruction, symmetry, and the meaning of a source
    3 sections
  6. Appendix FNotation, claim status, and construction dependencies
    4 sections

Bibliography

  1. ReferencesBibliography