Complex-Dynamic Origin of Consciousness and the Critical Choice of Sustainability Transition
arXiv Preprint Archive September 27, 2004 Andrei P. Kirilyuk
A new mathematical analysis of multi-component systems, using an extended effective potential method that avoids common limitations, reveals that such systems exhibit dynamic multivaluedness: multiple, incompatible system realizations emerge, with components dynamically entangled within each realization. This universal concept of dynamic complexity can be applied to intelligence and consciousness, which arise as high enough levels of unreduced complexity. Consciousness is identified with bound, localized states emerging from chaotic unconscious intelligence, analogous to classical behavior emerging from quantum states. The properties of this emergent consciousness match empirical properties of natural consciousness. The analysis provides a rigorous foundation for genuine machine consciousness, distinct from both natural consciousness and any mechanistic imitation, with implications for mental and social progress.