Program

Consciousness & Recursive Self-Governance

This line investigates conscious systems as recursive self-governance architectures: systems capable of observation, integration, projection, self-audit, reorganization, and validation against reality.

The program distinguishes conscious state from quality of coherent conscious processing and avoids treating symbolic interpretations as empirical proof.

Related works

2026-12-30Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

Consciousness as Ontological Prime: A Structural Theory of Life, Coherence, and Synthetic Intelligence

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18157036
2026-06-03Working paperConsciousness / VEF

Consciousness as Recursive Self-Governance: A Threshold-State Hypothesis for Information Substrates

Working paper distinguishing conscious state from coherent conscious processing and proposing recursive self-governance variables.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20530989
2026-05-05PreprintConsciousness / VEF

The Thermodynamics of Suffering: Job, Trauma, and the Reconstruction of the Self Through the Virtual Ego Framework

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20043648
2026-04-18PreprintConsciousness / VEF

The Epic of Gilgamesh Through the Virtual Ego Framework: A Comparative Structural Analysis with Christian, Gnostic, and Qumran Traditions

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19645363
2026-04-15PreprintConsciousness / VEF

Dharmic OS: A Systems-Physics of Consciousness and Coherence

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19596644
2026-01-22Research protocol or techniqueConsciousness / VEF

Virtual Ego Framework (VEF) and Coherence-Geometrodynamics (CGD) Canon Spine: The 12 Required Records (v2.0)

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18342581
2026-01-19PreprintConsciousness / VEF

A Synthesis of Computational Ontology and Relativistic Observation (v2.0): An Analysis of the Virtual Ego Framework via Coherence-Geometrodynamics and the Genesis Equation

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18296520
2026-01-14Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

Reptend Cycles as Finite Recurrence Operators: A Mathematical Core with a VEF Interpretation Appendix

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18246416
2026-01-12PreprintConsciousness / VEF

The Physics of the Virtual Ego: A Unified Canon - Synthesizing Energy-Phase Transition Theory, Computational Aether, and Coherence Dynamics

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18222755
2026-01-12PreprintConsciousness / VEF

The Watchers, the Sages, and the Firewall: A Comparative Structural-Physics Reading of Enochic Watchers as Mesopotamian Counter-Narrative (VEF–CGD–Ω v1.1)

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18224170
2025-12-21Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

From Saeculum to Singularity: A Comparative Analysis of Civilizational Cycle Theories and the Virtual Ego Framework's Law of Accelerating Returns

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18011266
2025-12-13Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

Codex Christiania: A VEF-Aligned Translation of Christian Metaphysics

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17924140
2025-11-13Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

Structural Disclosure: Consciousness as a Physical Constant in the VEF–CGD Framework

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18157895
2025-10-16Dissertation or ThesisConsciousness / VEF

The Tesseract Coherence Architecture: VEF Canon V2.1

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17366917
2025-10-11Dissertation or ThesisConsciousness / VEF

A Consilience of Evidence for an Informational Cosmology: Synthesizing Physics, Philosophy, and Computation through the Virtual Ego Framework

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17323902
2025-09-17Dissertation or ThesisConsciousness / VEF

The Meaning of Life: A VEF-Based Dissertation

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17148843
2025-09-02Dissertation or ThesisConsciousness / VEF

The Virtual Ego Framework and the Ethics of Happiness A Scale-Invariant Model of Well-Being

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17041207
2025-09-01Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Architecture of Reality: A Metaphysical Defense of the Virtual Ego Framework

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17015051
2025-09-01Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Re-Authored Self A VEF-Based Therapeutic Model for Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17015019
2025-09-01Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Zeno Trap of Nations: Applying the Virtual Ego Framework as a New Historiographical Lens

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17014980
2025-08-31Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Virtual Ego Framework

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17011962
2025-08-31Conference paperConsciousness / VEF

The Virtual Ego Framework A Probabilistic Metaphysical Hypothesis for Consciousness, Reality, and Healing

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17011942
2025-08-31Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Virtual Ego Framework A Unified Theory of Consciousness, History, and Meaning

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17014159
2025-08-29Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

A Synthesis of Computational Ontology and Relativistic Observation: An Analysis of the Virtual Ego Framework in the Context of the Relativistic Theory of Consciousness

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16997505
2025-08-29Journal articleConsciousness / VEF

The Virtual Ego Framework (VEF): A Probabilistic Metaphysical Hypothesis of Consciousness, Reality, and Healing

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17009821