A New Model of Consciousness and Free Will Unifying 2PC, Quantum Fisher Information, the Quantum Convergence Threshold, and the Quantum Zeno Effect
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This paper proposes a unified framework for understanding consciousness, free will, and wavefunction collapse by integrating Four Pillars: Two-Phase Cosmology (2PC), Quantum Fisher Information (QFI), the Quantum Convergence Threshold (QCT), and the Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE). We argue that consciousness emerges as a recursive informational process operating under bounded conditions, and that free will arises as a dynamical suppression of entropy-driven collapse through volitional focus. QFI formalizes the system’s internal capacity to distinguish modeled futures, while QCT sets the convergence boundary beyond which possibility must actualize. QZE then serves as the internal mechanism of choice: repeated self-observation stabilizing preferred outcomes. Collapse, under this model, is neither random nor externally induced — it is a self-triggered convergence mechanism driven by informational geometry, coherence saturation, and recursive selection. This reframing not only offers new solutions to the measurement problem but also defines consciousness and will as lawful emergent features of bounded quantum cognition.
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- Capanda, G. P. (2025). The Missing Substrate: Threshold Collapse, Informational Divergence, and the Fall of Materialism. Zenodo. In preparation. Integrates Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE), Quantum Convergence Threshold (QCT), and Two-Phase Cosmology (2PC) to model consciousness, collapse, and recursive informational saturation in observer-participatory systems. Builds upon prior work: Capanda (2025), Stapp (2009), Braunstein & Caves (1994), Fisher (1925), Penrose (1989), and Aharonov & Vaidman (2002).