The Convergence-Point Hypothesis as a Structural Framework for Consciousness Theories — A Proposal for Structurally Connecting Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Predictive Processing, the Free Energy Principle, Embodied Cognition, Higher-Order Theory, Recurrent Processing Theory, Neural Correlates of Consciousness, the Turing Test, and Libet-Style Experiments —
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 9, 2026 Nagae Mamoru
A disability welfare worker, new to consciousness studies, presents the convergence-point hypothesis as a structural framework for connecting existing theories of consciousness. The hypothesis treats information integration, prediction, representation, neural activity, and behavior as parts of one body-bound causal chain, asking where these processes close. It distinguishes the qualitative character of qualia from the structural skeleton of subjectivity, aiming to clarify how information becomes a subjective event. The hypothesis predicts that conscious nervous systems should have convergence-forming architectures that generate multiple embodied possibilities, make them compete, and narrow them through selection and inhibition into one irreversible event, conserving causal organization across species.