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Mentis Umbra

Amos Jay Maley

Mentis Umbra: Consciousness, Agency, and Qualia as Admissible Projections This paper establishes a structural classification theorem for systems satisfying irreversibility and redescription stability. It proves that any such system must instantiate a projection structure consisting of (i) transition mediation and (ii) invariant reference. These structures are not introduced as primitives but are derived as necessary consequences of a commutation condition: The argument proceeds in layers. First, for single syste...

All-version DOI
10.5281/zenodo.18611122
Archive page
https://constraintsystemsinstitute.org/papers/mentis-umbra-10-5281-zenodo-18611122/
Report number
CSI-ZENODO-18611122
Publication date
2026/02/13
Source record
https://zenodo.org/records/18627768