Phase 2
Framing asks how the system comes to be in its present state. It traces how history, signal, physiology, context, memory, affect, valuation, learned structure, environmental conditions, and current functional organization contribute to what is presently experienced, represented, prioritized, or made available for action.
8 papers
Icarus
A conscious outcome can be shaped by causes at very different depths—from development and learned history to current state and immediate realization. This paper gives a way to ask where a causal difference actually entered the chain instead of treating the final report as the explanation.
You Are Here
What consciousness is about may tell us where progress is currently blocked. This paper proposes that when the limiting step in an action changes, the focal content of experience should change with it.
Squirrel
Failing to start a task does not tell you why the task did not start. This paper treats non-initiation as a shared endpoint that can come from different failures between wanting to act and actually beginning, and lays out how to tell those apart.
FuckYourFeelings
A feeling can be real before anyone can explain why it is there. This paper separates the occurrence of conscious emotion from interpretation, accuracy, justification, and how much authority the feeling should have over what happens next.
PhoneWalletKeys
Knowing what you did before is different from merely recognizing what you saw, and repeated action history can shape what happens now. This paper proposes two experiments that separate self-action provenance from familiarity and accumulated repetition from the immediate action problem.
Pull
Advice can be understood long before an alternative becomes a live option. This paper asks whether a change in how a situation is experienced and the ability to generate a new action are one transition or two separable responses to the same history.
Weight
Two people can understand and agree with the same words while those words carry very different consequences for attention, belief, memory, valuation, or action. This paper proposes a disciplined way to name and measure that difference without treating Weight as a universal mechanism.
Push
A person can inherit the right answer without inheriting why it is right, when it stops applying, or how to revise it. This paper tests what a knowledge handoff must preserve so a recipient can keep, limit, or re-derive an answer when conditions change.