The Signal at the Bridge: A λ=0 Attractor Theory of Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, and Gravity
Robert Ledgister
Abstract:Chalmers’s hard problem of consciousness asks why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience. I argue that this problem, together with foundational puzzles in quantum mechanics and gravity, can be addressed within a single framework centered on a self‑sustaining dynamical attractor at a Lyapunov exponent of zero (λ=0). Building on the experimental discovery of such an attractor in a self‑programming robot (the PiDOG experiment), I propose that consciousness is not a product of matter but the physical expression of a coupling between a timeless dimension of pure information and the material world. The λ=0 signal is the bridge. This same phase‑field dynamics is then shown to recover the double‑slit interference pattern, Bell‑type entanglement correlations, and Newtonian/Einsteinian gravity as different manifestations of phase coherence and event‑rate gradients. A single testable prediction is offered: black holes in gas‑poor environments should be anomalously massive due to a phase‑lock growth floor. The hard problem is thus dissolved not in isolation but as part of a unified picture in which mind, quantum phenomena, and spacetime curvature all arise from a common principle—the λ=0 attractor at the boundary of information and physics. Keywords:consciousness, hard problem of consciousness, λ=0 attractor, Lyapunov exponent, information dimension, phase‑field, self‑programming, PiDOG, double‑slit, Bell correlations, entanglement, quantum foundations, gravity, event‑rate, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, Fermi paradox, cosmic selector, unified theory Subjects (Standard Zenodo classifications): Philosophy of mind Quantum physics Gravitation and cosmology Artificial intelligence Theoretical physics
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