Sentience, Consciousness, Awareness, as Facets of the Geometry of the Universe
- 1University of Salento (Expert in Economics)
Abstract
This paper aims to propose a novel interpretative perspective on consciousness, while emphasising that the primary focus of the inquiry must remain on the nature of sentience. Following a concise overview of the historical and contemporary debates surrounding consciousness and sentience, a new theoretical framework is introduced to fundamentally recontextualize these categories. By incorporating a recent ontological redefinition of imaginary numbers and acknowledging their foundational, non-spatial role in quantum mechanics—particularly regarding entanglement and double-slit outcomes—the proposed model initiates a profound re-elaboration of integrated information models. Furthermore, by absorbing neurobiological insights establishing that sentience does not strictly require large and complex brains, this framework transcends the traditional emergentist boundaries of contemporary neurobiological models. In doing so, it provides the necessary mathematical and biological scaffolding to critically integrate and correct the panpsychist paradigm, ultimately offering an immanent and rigorous synthesis for the “hard problem” of consciousness.
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BibTeX
@misc{paolilli2026sentience,
title = {{Sentience, Consciousness, Awareness, as Facets of the Geometry of the Universe}},
author = {Antonio Luigi Paolilli},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23483615},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23483615},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Sentience, Consciousness, Awareness, as Facets of the Geometry of the Universe
AU - Antonio Luigi Paolilli
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23483615
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23483615
AB - This paper aims to propose a novel interpretative perspective on consciousness, while emphasising that the primary focus of the inquiry must remain on the nature of sentience. Following a concise overview of the historical and contemporary debates surrounding consciousness and sentience, a new theoretical framework is introduced to fundamentally recontextualize these categories. By incorporating a recent ontological redefinition of imaginary numbers and acknowledging their foundational, non-spatial role in quantum mechanics—particularly regarding entanglement and double-slit outcomes—the proposed model initiates a profound re-elaboration of integrated information models. Furthermore, by absorbing neurobiological insights establishing that sentience does not strictly require large and complex brains, this framework transcends the traditional emergentist boundaries of contemporary neurobiological models. In doing so, it provides the necessary mathematical and biological scaffolding to critically integrate and correct the panpsychist paradigm, ultimately offering an immanent and rigorous synthesis for the “hard problem” of consciousness.
ER -