Process-Panentheistic Integration Theory (PPIT)

This work develops a process-based theoretical framework integrating concepts from physics, systems theory, and cognitive science to address the nature of consciousness and reality. It is based on widely accepted observations that systems arise from interacting processes, that stability emerges through recursive feedback, and that consciousness is associated with integrated, differentiated, and globally available information. The theory proposes that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter, but a stable mode of highly integrated, recurrent information processes equipped with a functional self-model. Material structures are understood as stabilized patterns within underlying process dynamics. To account for the irreducibility of subjective experience, a minimal ontological extension is introduced: a panentheistic framework in which the world exists within a comprehensive ground that makes processes possible, without being reducible to them or exhaustively describable within any conceptual or theoretical framework. The theory remains compatible with empirical findings and formulates testable expectations regarding the conditions under which conscious systems arise and change.