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Jamie Morris

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

Papers

Meaning, Alternatives, and the Adjudicative Function: A Distilled SCT Expression

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 30, 2026 Jamie Morris

Recognized error feels different from ordinary failure because meaning itself depends on the possibility of relating distinctions in more than one way. A system can only be wrong if alternatives existed. Cognition includes a distinct adjudicative function that preserves alternative accessibility within a meaning-landscape, a function not exhausted by the truth or utility of those alternatives. The emotional weight of error reflects the withdrawal of endorsement from a previously trusted distinction—consciousness transitioning from 'yes' to 'no' from within. This is a falsifiable architectural claim: if all alternative-preservation reduces to prediction-error minimization, global broadcasting, or sensorimotor coordination, the adjudicative function would be unnecessary.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20464883 Cognition Function biology Meaning existential Consciousness +8

Synergistic Consciousness Theory: Shared Reality and Distributed Navigation

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 26, 2026 Jamie Morris

Synergistic Consciousness Theory proposes that consciousness arises from dynamic coupling and coordinated stabilization across social and internal relational fields, rather than being an isolated process within individual minds. The theory reframes loneliness, grief, trust, institutions, contemplative states, and pathological self-organization as expressions of this underlying synergistic architecture. Integrating systems theory, phenomenology, attachment theory, enactivism, and distributed cognition, the paper presents consciousness as coordinated navigation across coupled relational systems. A companion paper extends this into relational cosmology, arguing that differentiation enables relationality, which enables synergy, and synergy enables navigable complexity and consciousness. This structural sequence appears across scales without implying panpsychism or teleology.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20394988 Precondition Relational theory Relational model Observer physics +11