Consciousness Naturalized: A Falsifiable Substrate-Agnostic Consciousness Theory

This is Nathan Sweet’s independently authored research article on consciousness, with its canonical, ongoing reading edition at https://sweetrationalism.com/articles/consciousness/consciousness-naturalized-a-falsifiable-substrate-agnostic-consciousness-theory-ai-biology/ . Version 1.1.0 explicitly develops explanandum preservation, explanatory stopping-rule symmetry, evidence-transport bridges, independently calibrated phenomenal labels, typed loss conditions and a prospective rival-theory tournament. The archive contains the complete article HTML, public textual diff, owner-approved lossless twelve-revision WordPress reconstruction, computational checks and five structured pre-data test proposals (hysteresis, disconnection, endogenous/yoked control, boundary perturbation, and the metaproblem). These designs are NOT completed study-specific empirical preregistrations, and none constitutes validation of the proposed consciousness identity. The author completed source/quotation review; the preprint has not been externally peer reviewed. The WordPress website remains canonical; Zenodo preserves an immutable version archive.