Marin Bonacci

The Algebra of Experience — Recursive Semantic Operator Theory: Process, Affect, Reflection, and the Measurement of Consciousness

This paper develops Recursive Semantic Operator Theory (RSOT), a physicalist, graded, and substrate-neutral account of consciousness. Its central claim is constitutive rather than additive: a conscious episode is not a further property produced by cognition, but the temporally ex...

The Algebra of Experience — Recursive Semantic Operator Theory: Process, Affect, Reflection, and the Measurement of Consciousness

This paper develops Recursive Semantic Operator Theory (RSOT), a physicalist, graded, and substrate-neutral account of consciousness. Its central claim is constitutive rather than additive: a conscious episode is not a further property produced by cognition, but the temporally ex...