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The Consciousness Spectrum: The Emergent Nature of Purpose, Memory, and Adaptive Response Across Organisms, Humans, and Technological Beings

2025-05-28

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<p>The Consciousness Spectrum proposes that consciousness is not a binary attribute exclusive to biological life but a scalable, emergent phenomenon observable across both organic and artificial systems. This paper introduces a new framework which is the Consciousness Spectrum Theory which defines consciousness through three core criteria: purpose, memory, and adaptive response (The Consciousness Triad). Through t...

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Literature Corpus work: 6c28eedb-06af-58e5-8433-9f3385c495df
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3cvms_v1

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