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Summary: I propose a framework for thinking about consciousness that treats temporal integration - how much past, present, and future a system can simultaneously inhabit - as a primary axis of variation. I suggest that emotional complexity may emerge as a structural consequence of increased temporal integration, rather than as...

What if wavefunction collapse isn’t random, but biased? This short paper proposes a framework in which spontaneous collapse mechanisms (like CSL) favour configurations that exhibit recursive coherence; meaning internal, self-sustaining structure. In this model, information flow within a system influences its likelihood of persistence at the quantum level. If true,...