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This paper seeks to redefine consciousness by exploring the conditions that make reality experienceable as a world.

June 1, 2026Open Access

Worldhood: Toward a Generative Theory of Experiential Reality

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Theoretical framework develops understanding of consciousness and its relation to inhabitable reality.

This paper seeks to redefine consciousness by exploring the conditions that make reality experienceable as a world.
Develops a generative framework for understanding consciousness.
Examines how various dimensions interact to create different forms of worldhood.
Focuses on the active generation of experience rather than passive reception.
Proposes that consciousness is the ongoing stabilization of meaningful experiential horizons.
Identifies key dimensions that influence the perception of an inhabitable world.
Suggests that reality is actively generated through organized relations among these dimensions.

Erik Tönsberg (2026) studied this question.

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