Updates

The Model page now acts as the main index into the site’s conceptual structure. It separates framework pages, experiential pages, system-behaviour pages, and formal material so readers can move through the architecture more clearly.

Read: Model

This page introduces CM as the broader architectural framing within which CCM and AoE sit. It clarifies what CM explains, what it does not claim, and how it relates to the cumulative control hierarchy and the experiential branch of the framework.

Read: Consciousness Mechanics (CM)

This page translates the Architecture of Experience paper into a clearer public-facing conceptual guide, including global state, feeling, valence, awareness, cognition, emotion, and the role of sentience within the wider framework.

Read: Architecture of Experience (AoE)

The expanded Approach page explains why the framework is built under explicit constraints, how those constraints shape CM, CCM, and AoE, and what kinds of conceptual drift or over-claim the framework is designed to avoid.

Read: Approach

The site now includes a more structured internal navigation system for model pages, including previous/next navigation and a full slide-out map for jumping directly across framework, experience, system behaviour, and formal material.

Start here: Model

“The Architecture of Experience: Global State, Valence, and the Layered Structure of Experience.”

Introduces AoE as a structured account of how experiential components, including feeling, valence, awareness, cognition, and emotion, emerge from perturbations in an organism’s global state.

The paper clarifies how these commonly conflated terms relate within a viability-regulated biological control architecture, and situates sentient experience within the broader CM / CCM framework.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18975528

“Consciousness Mechanics (CM) and the Consciousness Component Model (CCM): A Biology-First Control Architecture for Conscious Systems.”

Introduces CM as organism-level control architecture and formalises CCM as a cumulative, taxonomy-independent capability hierarchy using temporal horizon (H) and structural capacity (K).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18844847

1m20s overview of the “control architecture” framing, the component ladder (CL1…CLn), and the H/K classification axes. Includes the first public diagram style.

Watch: YouTube

This page is the “why” behind the project — and the constraints that shaped CCM’s scope, tone, and build method.

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Current work focuses on keeping each component definition “spec-like” (state variables, gates, update rules) while preventing drift and over-claim via explicit ceilings and discriminators.

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