URA - Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 22, 2026 Gary Flugge
The Recursive Attractor Framework (RAF) proposes that phenomenal consciousness is identical to a specific class of recursive electromagnetic field attractors in the brain, not merely correlated with them. The framework defines four necessary conditions and five measurable criteria, including a diagnostic Recursion Index computable from EEG data. Version 8 retires a previously reported significant result (p=0.039) as a bug artifact after identifying two compounding errors; the corrected analysis yielded p=0.9700. New preliminary results show Lempel-Ziv complexity (S(t)) from a ketamine dataset was higher in 9 of 10 subjects under ketamine than wakefulness (p=0.0098, Cohen's d=0.