Develops a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness limits in various states of awareness, suggesting critical implications for neurological phenomena.
This paper develops a C² = C continuity-based account of the boundary conditions of awareness. It argues that continuity alone is insufficient for conscious attribution because awareness requires recurrent, state-dependent integration. When such recurrence becomes unrecoverable, the system reaches an event horizon of awareness: continuity may persist at the structural or informational level, but reportable attribution fails. The paper distinguishes information conservation from awareness conservation and frames near-death experiences, anesthesia edges, coma recovery, and related boundary cases as near-horizon phenomena rather than evidence from beyond unrecoverability.
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