Consciousness & Life

The CI dataset covers 100 species from viruses to humans. Every ranking traces to 13 independently assigned biological p...

The CI formula applies to any physical system with mass and sensing capability. BFUT Paper 21 extends the framework to a...

BFUT Paper 20 makes a direct prediction for astrobiology: the search for life should be reframed as a search for multi-c...

BFUT Layer 6 holds that the purpose of every life is net positive feeling. The CI measures how well-equipped a system is...

Every system with mass has a non-zero CI. This is not a philosophical position — it is a physical consequence of gravita...

One substrate density. 27 papers. An unbroken chain from the first stable condensation of matter to the formal definitio...

The Consciousness Index gives every physical system a definite number. Physically grounded, calibrated on 100 species, e...

The Consciousness Index produces a biologically honest result: dolphins and common ravens exceed the human average CI₀. ...

Natural selection describes what happens. BFUT Paper 20 derives the mechanism that drives complexity upward over time: m...

BFUT Paper 20 makes five specific, falsifiable predictions about sensing and consciousness. Not philosophical claims. Sp...

You cannot have vision without chemistry. You cannot have chemistry without nuclear structure. The Hierarchical Channel ...

IIT's phi measures something real but cannot be calculated for real organisms and produces counterintuitive results. CI ...

BFUT Paper 20 closes the arc from the Spaticle field to life with a single statement: life is not an exception to physic...

Every sensing modality in every organism is a manifestation of one of the four fundamental force channels. BFUT Paper 20...

Every physical system interacts. Not every physical system senses. BFUT Paper 20 derives three precise physical conditio...

All matter is alive and conscious. This was once a philosophical claim. BFUT Paper 20 makes it a physically derived resu...