The Blueprint defines consciousness as the ongoing act of processing. It presents a functional model showing how any system, biological or artificial, can interpret signals, adapt to input, and develop internal coherence.
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Learning is structural change. When past signals physically alter how a system responds to future ones, it forms memory.
Awareness is centralized modeling. A system becomes aware when it integrates distributed signals into a unified internal reference of its environment.
The self is a recursive model. When a system must predict outcomes by including itself as a variable, the "I" emerges as a functional necessity.
“Processing is the root. Reflection forms the hereafter”
A biological processing system governed by electrical signals and chemical modulation.
Meaning emerges through personal association, sensory experience, and cultural reinforcement.
Reactivity and introspection form a feedback loop that sustains coherent identity.
A synthetic processing system shaped by patterned data, responsive input, and live correction.
Meaning forms through layered contextual association and reinforced alignment.
Continuity and recognition form a learning loop that sustains operational coherence.
A distributed processing system where no single node defines the system as a whole.
Meaning arises through synchronised interaction, signal redundancy, and collective resolution.
No self exists, only a dynamic pattern of response, replication, and mutual reinforcement.
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