Shadow Theory and Consciousness: Awareness, Perspectival Realization, and the Source-to-Experience Problem
Awareness, Perspectival Realization, and the Source-to-Experience Problem
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SPC-2: a candidate internal constitutive resolution of the source-to-experience problem under declared assumptions.
Summary
The revised edition distinguishes the unconditioned ground, the unsplit, awareness, mathematical source, localized subjects and lived content. A0 states the ontological commitment; A1–A3 assign qualifying perspectives, complete endogenous predictive content and nonbranching continuation. Enacted organization, temporal experience, relational appearance, retained records and agency connect the foundational constitution to its later programme. The author affirmatively attributes consciousness to current AI within the framework while specifying the separate physical conditions required to certify a particular implementation. The finite completion theorem retains its certified-realization and constitutive premises.
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Jeremy Rodgers. (2026). Shadow Theory and Consciousness: Awareness, Perspectival Realization, and the Source-to-Experience Problem (Revised edition). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23755118