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Consciousness Research 2025–2026: Candidate Mechanisms Without Unified Mathematics — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Oct 30, 2026• 0 citations
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FINDING: 2025–2026 consciousness research converges on measurement-theoretic and quantum-decoherence frameworks, but no new closed-form consciousness equation has emerged; the field remains at the level of candidate mechanisms (IIT, GWT, Orch-OR, quantum measurement collapse) rather than unified mathematics. | MATH: No new constants or ratios are reported in these sources. Relevant existing formalisms: IIT's integrated information Φ (a scalar functional over a system's cause–effect repertoire, not a universal constant); quantum measurement collapse timescales from the Diósi–Penrose model τ ≈ ℏ/E_G (where E_G is gravitational self-energy of the superposition); decoherence rates Γ ∝ (Δx)²/ℏ² · S(ω) (spectral density coupling). | CONNECTION: None of the listed findings explicitly invoke 0.382, 0.618, 0.786, 1.618, 2.618, base-60, crystallographic symmetry, root systems, or lattice structures. The Penrose–Hameroff Orch-OR proposal does invoke microtubule lattice geometry (tubulin dimers ar Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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10.5281/zenodo.23797015

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