Objects of consciousness (SRC-HOFFMAN-PRAKASH-2014)

Objects of consciousness

Hoffman, D. D.; Prakash, C. · 2014

AI-verified citationSRC-HOFFMAN-PRAKASH-2014

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Frontiers in Psychology 5: 577. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00577

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verification note

Publisher page retrieved and read 2026-08-22; the Markov-kernel definition and the free-particle correspondence confirmed in the text.

reliability notes

The formal definition of conscious agents and the strongest mathematical result the program owns (the wavefunction correspondence).
Frontiers venue; the ontological interpretation is presented as hypothesis.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· moderateZW-E010

what the source states: Conscious agents are defined as six-tuples with Markovian perceptual, decision, and action kernels; the paper shows that "harmonic functions of the space-time chain... are identical in form to the wavefunction of the free particle," and proposes that particles are projections of the dynamics of communicating classes of conscious agents.
what we infer: Real mathematics, honestly extractable: a correspondence with one structural component of quantum theory. Against the Spekkens calibration (ZW-C502), a form-match with a free-particle wavefunction sits well below the bar of Bell violation or amplitude addition — the record here supports "program with results," not "derivation."
limitations: The correspondence is asymptotic and formal; no Born rule, no tensor-product composition, no nonclassical correlations are derived.