Reyhan Karataş

Beyond Content: Consciousness as an Interface-Coordinating Biological Process

Contemporary approaches to consciousness often emphasize neural activity, representational content, or informational complexity, yet frequently lack a clear account of how conscious experience achieves coherence across time, meaning, and self-reference. In this work, we propose a...

The Architecture of the Self as a Multi-Interface System Subjectivity, Regulation, and Selective Disruption

Despite its central role across psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience, the concept of the self has resisted a unified definition. This persistent difficulty stems not from a lack of theoretical effort, but from ontological ambiguity, disciplinary fragmentation, and the frequen...

Why Consciousness Cannot Be Metaphysical: Evolutionary, Biological, and Linguistic Constraints

This paper argues that consciousness cannot be coherently understood as a metaphysical or non-biological phenomenon. Drawing on converging evidence from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, linguistics, and cognitive science, it demonstrates that consciousness degrades with neural...