Coordinate Consciousness

Title:

Coordinate Consciousness: A Theoretical Framework for Internal Temporal Navigation  

Description / Abstract:

This paper presents "Coordinate Consciousness," a theoretical framework that models subjective temporal experience not as motion through an evolving physical timeline, but as navigation across a high-dimensional cognitive state-space.  

Key Framework Components:

State-Space Trajectory: Consciousness is modeled as a trajectory of state-vectors within a structured manifold.  

Internal Navigation: Temporal experience arises from transitions between states, governed by transition operators and attractor-like memory regions.  

Physical Conservatism: The framework remains fully compatible with modern physics, requiring no closed timelike curves or violations of causality.  

Hybrid Co-authorship: This proposal emerged from a long-horizon collaboration between a non-academic human author and a large language model (LLM), testing the potential for hybrid reasoning in theoretical modeling.  

This draft (v0.2) is released into the Public Domain (CC0). The author invites the scientific community—specifically those in neuroscience, theoretical physics, and AI alignment—to refine the mathematical formalism or explore empirical signatures for this model.