Towards a full-stack functionalist theory of consciousness: Identifying its functional profile

arXiv:2609.33366 · q-bio.NC · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/Lossfunk/consciousness-sweep

Terminology

• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Schema Theory — 5× in this paper
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Metacognition — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abductive process — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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