Consciousness as Cosmic Relational Emergence
Bautista Baron preprint
Consciousness emerges as a natural consequence of universal organizational principles in cosmic evolution, arising when systems achieve enough relational complexity to sustain self-referential organization. A theoretical framework extends relational ontology using thermodynamic and information-theoretic foundations, with mathematical formalization linking neural structures to cosmic processes. This evolutionary-naturalistic approach reinterprets the hard problem and explanatory gap, opening interdisciplinary research pathways across philosophy, cosmology, and complexity science.