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The Simulation You Call “I”
The Architecture of Consciousness, Computation, and the Cosmos
A book that dissolves the Hard Problem of consciousness, provides an engineering blueprint for artificial consciousness, and extends the framework to cosmology.
What This Book Does
- Proposes a four-model architecture (IWM, ISM, EWM, ESM) that explains why it feels like something to be a conscious system
- Derives the architecture from first principles: self-referential computation at criticality
- Connects consciousness to cosmology through the SB-HC4A framework — same computational pattern, different scale
- Makes nine testable predictions about neural criticality, anesthetic mechanisms, and phenomenology
Background
This is the English-language successor to Die Emergenz des Bewusstseins (2015, German, 300 pages). The theoretical framework has been significantly expanded and is now accompanied by two formal papers:
- The Four-Model Theory of Consciousness — the core theory (Gruber, 2026)
- Emergent Spacetime from Self-Referential Computation — cosmological extension (Gruber, 2026)
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Research
Papers and source material at github.com/JeltzProstetnic/aIware.