Theory of Time and Consciousness: Conceptual Framework and Ontological Grounding

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Consciousness is a material property of living systems that organizes information about their own structure to maintain dynamic disequilibrium, evolving by gaining time for information processing. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

Azhar Donenbayeva; Assan Dossayev; Mikhail Mazhitov

doi:10.5281/zenodo.22257783

September 2, 2026Open Access

Theory of Time and Consciousness: Conceptual Framework and Ontological Grounding

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To establish an interdisciplinary theoretical and ontological framework grounded in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and information theory that explains consciousness without invoking metaphysical dualism or reductive physicalism.
Synthesized principles across non-equilibrium thermodynamics, evolutionary biology, complex adaptive systems, cybernetics, and information theory.
Modeled consciousness conceptually as a self-referential information-organizing property of matter that governs system entropy and response latencies.
Consciousness is characterized as living matter's capacity to organize structural information, enabling systems to export entropy and maintain dynamic disequilibrium.
Gaining processing time between external stimuli and behavioral responses is identified as the core evolutionary advantage offsetting the biological costs of organizational complexity.
Human consciousness is shown to operate via feedback loops that integrate externalized collective knowledge and bodily experience, with artificial intelligence representing an emergent response to collective informational entropy.

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Theoretical analysis reveals consciousness as living matter organizing structural information to optimize response time across evolutionary states, suggesting subjective experience emerges from...

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