Consciousness Science 2026
Emergent Time
Awareness Registration & PanQualism
Conference resources from Jeff Molner’s CS2026 poster presentation in San Diego, including the research poster, key ideas behind the framework, and ways to follow Before Consciousness and ongoing PanQualism research.
CS2026 Research Poster
To be presented at Consciousness Science 2026 in San Diego, California. The poster introduces a framework connecting emergent time, awareness registration, consciousness, and experimentally testable constructs.
Consciousness Science 2026
Emergent Time and Awareness Registration:
Recalibrating the Maps of Time and Consciousness
This poster presents a framework connecting emergent time, awareness registration, and consciousness. It distinguishes lawful physical unfolding from the registration of change and outlines a path toward experimentally testable constructs within the broader Foundations of Awareness framework.
Jeff Molner
Independent Researcher & Systems Engineer
Key Ideas Behind the Research
Emergent Time
Time is explored as arising from lawful physical unfolding rather than existing only as a primitive background parameter.
Awareness Registration
The framework distinguishes physical change from the registration of change and asks what makes registration physically meaningful.
PanQualism
Matter and awareness are explored as complementary aspects of a deeper informational-energetic substrate.
Testability
The research seeks measurable constructs that can move the framework from conceptual architecture toward experimental evaluation.
Before Consciousness
Before Consciousness
Forthcoming
PanQualism and the Fundamental Nature of Awareness
PanQualism and the Fundamental Nature of Awareness
What if awareness is fundamental—and consciousness is emergent?
Before Consciousness develops PanQualism as a framework in which
awareness is foundational and consciousness emerges from increasingly organized
and integrated awareness.
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Questions, critiques, collaborations, and experimental perspectives are welcome. The goal is not simply to propose a new map, but to identify where the map can be tested against the territory.