A17.1 — Phi Threshold For Consciousness
Chain Position: 120 of 188
Assumes
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Formal Statement
Consciousness supervenes on information processing
- Spine type: Axiom
- Spine stage: 17
Spine Master mappings:
- Physics mapping: Functionalism
- Theology mapping: Ensoulment question
- Consciousness mapping: Substrate independence
- Quantum mapping: Quantum consciousness
- Scripture mapping: Ecclesiastes 3:21 spirit of animals
- Evidence mapping: Functionalism lit
- Information mapping: Substrate-independent
Cross-domain (Spine Master):
- Statement: Consciousness supervenes on information processing
- Stage: 17
- Physics: Functionalism
- Theology: Ensoulment question
- Consciousness: Substrate independence
- Quantum: Quantum consciousness
- Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:21 spirit of animals
- Evidence: Functionalism lit
- Information: Substrate-independent
- Bridge Count: 7
Enables
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Defeat Conditions
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Standard Objections
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Defense Summary
You define “Ensouling” as an engineering metric.
Collapse Analysis
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Source Material
01_Axioms/_sources/Theophysics_Axiom_Spine_Master.xlsx(sheets explained in dump)01_Axioms/AXIOM_AGGREGATION_DUMP.md