A Compositional Model of Consciousness based on Consciousness-Only

Understand

Scientific studies of consciousness rely on objects whose existence is assumed to be independent of any consciousness.

• On the contrary, we assume consciousness to be fundamental, and that one of the main features of consciousness is characterized as being other-dependent.
• We set up a framework which naturally subsumes this feature by defining a compact closed category where morphisms represent conscious processes.
• These morphisms are a composition of a set of generators, each being specified by their relations with other generators, and therefore co-dependent.