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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Consciousness arises from biological architectures.
  • Existing frameworks lack a comprehensive explanation for phenomenal consciousness.
  • The Reaction to Reflection framework provides a basis for understanding self-modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the Value Saturation theory of consciousness.
  • Distinguish between sentience and subjective consciousness.
  • Propose necessary components for phenomenal consciousness.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical framework development (Value Saturation).
  • Distinction between implicit and explicit recursive self-modeling.
  • Identification of key components: interoceptive binding, homeostatic saturation, perspectival entrapment.

Main Results:

  • Phenomenal consciousness is defined as explicit recursive self-modeling saturated by homeostatic significance under perspectival entrapment.
  • Sentience (Level 2) involves implicit recursion; subjective consciousness (Levels 4-5) involves explicit, manipulable self-models.
  • Predictions include developmental trajectory, awareness-manipulation asymmetry, and aberrant phenomenology in dissociations.

Conclusions:

  • Value Saturation offers a testable, empirically tractable theory of consciousness.
  • Converging evidence supports the roles of prediction error, homeostatic feelings, metacognition, and thermodynamics.
  • Consciousness can be investigated as organizational transitions in biological systems under thermodynamic constraints.