Kasei-Theory II.Consciousness: Consciousness Without Interiority

This paper defines consciousness within the second system of Kasei-Theory as the local readability condition under which distributed maintainability is readable as consciousness, but without interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, experience, mental state, qualia, or any other traditional attribute. Consciousness does not involve an inner domain, subject, self-knowledge, cognition, or phenomenal experience. The theory prevents reduction to interiority or subjectivity and does not establish determinism, as fixation is not determination and constraint is not necessity. No interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, mental state, or qualia are presupposed or introduced.

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This paper fixes consciousness within the second system of Kasei-Theory. Consciousness is not introduced as interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, experience, mental state, inner access, reflection, intentionality, awareness, perception, qualia, life-process, biological substrate, access, or ontology. Reading does not establish consciousness. Time does not establish consciousness. Observation does not establish consciousness. State does not establish consciousness. Field does not establish consciousness. Interaction does not establish consciousness. Information does not establish consciousness. Phase does not establish consciousness. Life does not establish consciousness. Configuration does not establish consciousness. Consciousness is fixed only as the local readability condition under which distributed maintainability is readable as consciousness without interiority. This readability does not establish interiority, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, experience, mental state, awareness, intentionality, reflection, qualia, biological substrate, access, or ontology. The paper prevents consciousness from being reduced to inner domain, subjectivity, self-awareness, cognition, lived experience, mental state, awareness, intentionality, reflection, phenomenal consciousness, biological substrate, access, or ontological interiority. Consciousness does not open an inside, does not belong to a subject, does not know itself, does not become cognition, does not ground qualia, and does not secure access. Kasei-Theory does not establish determinism. Fixation is not determination. Constraint is not necessity. Maintainability is not predestination. Non-transition is not modal exclusion. No interiority is presupposed. No subjectivity is introduced. No self-awareness is established. No cognition is restored. No mental state is introduced. No qualia are secured.