Consciousness Is Evolution in Real Time: A Deterministic Accessibility Account

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This paper argues that the moment-to-moment content of phenomenal consciousness is identical to whichever neural or mnemonic representation is, at that instant, transiently the most accessible given the system’s causal history and current embedding context. Building on Tulving’s distinction between availability and accessibility, together with empirical work on working-memory constraints, attentional blink, primin...

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39193e41-4ea6-5453-8f12-c89029bcf83f

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10.20944/preprints202512.0535.v1