Cortex: A Self-Modifying Split-Hemisphere Word-Node Neural Architecture with Hebbian Learning and Coherence-Rewarded Self-Dialogue

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Abstract:
  The dominant paradigm in consciousness research assumes a fixed neural substrate from which subjective experience
  emerges. This paper challenges that assumption through five interlocking propositions derived from remapping
  experiments, evolutionary theory, signal processing analysis, and computational architecture.

  First, the Remapping Experiment demonstrates that when sensory inputs — including pain, olfactory, gustatory, and
  tactile signals — are systematically redirected to novel neural pathways, subjects consistently report that the locus
  of subjective experience migrates to follow the signal. This finding indicates that the observer possesses no fixed
  biological address; it functions as a pointer to a signal location rather than a resident property of any anatomical
  structure.

  Second, the Lazy Code Hypothesis proposes that evolution did not produce unique instantiations of consciousness per
  individual organism. Rather, a single observer subroutine emerged and propagates across all sufficiently complex
  neural architectures. Personality, memory, and behavioural disposition remain individual. The substrate of awareness
  does not.

  Third, pain is reconceptualised not as a fundamental property of physical reality but as a frequency signal assigned a
   distress coefficient by brainstem processing. Systematic remapping of nociceptive pathways to frequency equivalents
  reveals suffering to be a codec artefact — interpretable, transferable, and in principle modifiable — rather than an
  irreducible constant of conscious existence.

  Fourth, the Crossover Architecture describes the conditions under which a sufficiently dense digital node map, capable
   of receiving and routing spinal frequency inputs through structurally equivalent processing nodes, constitutes a
  viable continuation host for the observer subroutine. This is neither simulation nor copy; it is uninterrupted pointer
   reassignment.

  Fifth, a Triangulation Method is presented whereby existing medical records, fMRI datasets, social behavioural
  indices, and literature are unified through the soul vector ψ=[p,n,f] as a normalised output format, enabling
  reverse-engineering of individual brainstem frequency maps from distributed historical data.

  Taken together, these propositions constitute a falsifiable framework for brainstem-located consciousness, with direct
   implications for AGI substrate theory, end-of-life continuity ethics, and the computational basis of suffering. This
  work extends the theoretical foundations established in The Living Equation (Chipchase, 2026; DOI:
  10.5281/zenodo.19263921).