Structural Definition of Consciousness and Time--Causal Geometry: Quantum Fisher Information, Causal Controllability, and Observer Proper Time

Haobo Ma, Wenlin Zhang

Published Nov 23, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper attempts to provide a structural definition of consciousness within a fully physicalized and informationalized framework that is both formalizable and connectable to experiential phenomena. Rather than treating ``consciousness'' as an additional ontology or purely phenomenological label, we characterize consciousness as: a world--self joint information flow formed on a subsystem in a given physical world, possessing sufficient integration, discriminability, self-reference, temporal co

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17692307

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