Consciousness Floor Series — Parts I–V
Five research papers. Released 4 September 2026.
A proposed framework for measuring minimum conditions of functional consciousness: definitions, procedures, worked examples, and declared limits.
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PART I
A Minimum Observable Floor for Consciousness A metrological framework for the smallest defensible process claim
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PART II
The Human Reference Standard Under Calibration Teaching, emergence, and assumptions hidden in human comparison
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PART III
Classifying the Consciousness Floor Process, type, profile, and working distinctions
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PART IV
Calibration Report and Recommendation Standing, residuals, and what the instrument may and may not claim
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PART V
Floor in Use — Functional Imagination A contact case on using the floor without inflating it
Publication record and all five PDFs:
https://zenodo.org/records/22309425