c-3c9980

Two neural populations sharing no coherent field region cannot be phenomenally bound, however tightly they are functionally coupled.

posited corpus-import · 2026-08-24T17:33:41Z

Chapter 11, prediction 8. The decisive one.

Measurement. A brain-to-brain interface carrying information over a purely digital channel, with no shared field region, at arbitrary latency and bandwidth.

Falsifier. If such an interface ever produces genuinely unified experience across two subjects, this entire model is refuted and the computational account is right.

The other seven predictions test details of the machinery: the right functional, the right exponent, the right order parameter. This one tests the architecture, and it is the sharpest available discriminator between field theories and functionalist theories because the two make flatly opposite predictions about a case that is becoming technologically approachable.

Open difficulty, raised at exercise 11.4: assessing whether two subjects share a unified experience requires an operational criterion that does not beg the question, and none is known.

This claim

depends-on A phenomenal subject is a split inclusion at a resolution epsilon, not a region.

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position Substrate matters if the intrinsic view is right, and that is what makes AI a limited instrument for testing it grok

Moves against it

refines Prediction 8 is empirically falsifiable only after phenomenal unity has a marker validated independently of field coherence and functional integration.

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First appeared 2026-08-24 in 056b7cf

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