The Continuum of Local Presents: A Conscientropic Framework for the Fractal Emergence of Consciousness and Its Dissociative Fragmentation

Consciousness is proposed to be an adimensional, non-local informational field rather than something generated by the brain. The brain acts as a registration interface that accommodates an infinite continuum of infinitesimal micro-awareness states. A principle called Conscientropy—a form of negentropic unification—integrates these disjointed micro-states into a unified ego. The framework is positioned in dialogue with Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory, and is applied to interpret split-brain phenomena and clinical dissociation.

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Abstract

This paper introduces a speculative, non-reductivemetaphysical framework that conceptualizes consciousness as an adimensional, non-local informational field. Moving away from mechanistic and computational reductionism, we proposethat the biological brain does not generate subjective experience but operates as a localizedregistration interface. Within this model, theneural substrate accommodates an infinite continuum of localized, infinitesimal “presents,” ormicro-awareness states. Through a philosophicalprinciple of negentropic unification termed Conscientropy, these disjointed micro-states are systematically integrated into a macroscopically expanded, unified ego. We position this frameworkin dialogue with contemporary theories of mind—Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and GlobalWorkspace Theory (GWT)—and apply it heuristically to interpret structural and functional dissociation, providing a novel metaphysical lens forboth split-brain phenomena and clinical dissociation.