Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 15, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Observable behaviors in artificial intelligence and human consciousness research are often mistakenly taken as proof of deeper internal properties, such as interpreting fluent self-description as genuine subjectivity. This paper introduces a claim–evidence discipline requiring domain-specific evidence to justify moving from observable manifestations to claims about latent states, using two ordinal maps to identify unjustified leaps. The framework integrates preregistration, sham conditions, negative controls, and other safeguards, and is applied separately to AI evaluation and human-consciousness research without treating them as equivalent. A worked feasibility protocol and construct-existence test illustrate how to empirically study lived presence. The main contribution is a transferable methodological architecture for preventing unjustified transitions from what a system displays to what it is claimed to contain.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness is not explained solely by organismic regulation; the hard problem begins when stabilized organismic access becomes lived presence. This theoretical note consolidates the Projected Presence Framework into a criticizable conceptual architecture, distinguishing organismic regulation, stabilized access, projected presence, selfhood, will, dogma, correction resistance, and feedback regulation to prevent category collapse between functional access, lived presence, self-modeling, and agency. The framework is positioned against access consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, Global Neuronal Workspace, predictive processing, self-model theory, illusionism, embodied cognition, and neurophenomenology.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 8, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness should not be treated as an inner observer or private theater, but as the biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation into an access-field that becomes lived as inner presence. The explanatory gap is not across consciousness as an undefined whole, but at the transition between stabilized organismic access and lived presence. The framework introduces a recurrent feedback loop in which projected presence can re-enter subsequent organismic regulation through attention, affective weighting, threat evaluation, memory, action-readiness, and correction uptake. The contribution is theoretical and methodological, offering a disciplined research scaffold for future work on consciousness, embodiment, agency, and selfhood.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 7, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness can be understood not as an inner observer or metaphysical foundation but as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. The paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, arguing that consciousness is an access-field making bodily state, environmental orientation, temporal continuity, affective relevance, and action-readiness available without an inner observer. It distinguishes three coupled stabilizations: consciousness as a stabilized access-field, selfhood as a stabilized image of organismic continuity, and will as a stabilized interpretation of organismic direction. The concept of dogmatic immunization describes pathological stabilization where a stabilized image becomes protected from correction despite counter-pressure. The framework preserves the biological reality of conscious experience while removing the methodological immunity of first-person immediacy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 21, 2026
Karel Hrubec
The soul can be understood not as an immortal substance inside the body, but as the form of a finite, living, relational organismal trajectory. Consciousness is a bounded projection regime sustained by organismic conditions, the self is a stabilized center of projection, and the soul is the organization of bodily life, time, memory, value, vulnerability, relation, and conscious projection into a unique finite trajectory. This reconstructed concept is distinguished from substance dualism, reductive materialism, purely neurobiological accounts, religious uses, narrative identity, and informational-continuity accounts. The soul functions as a philosophical concept for the unity and shape of a life, not an empirical object in the brain.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 19, 2026
Karel Hrubec
The Organismic Projection Framework (OPF) reorients philosophy of mind by starting from the human as an organism that sustains a bounded projection regime—of world, self-location, valuation, and duration—rather than as a consciousness inhabiting a body. The framework clarifies how concepts like death, eternity, and post-mortem continuity depend on organismically bounded duration and perspective. It does not solve the hard problem of consciousness or replace neuroscience, but functions as a burden-of-intelligibility framework: any claim about personal conscious continuity beyond organismic death must explain how duration, self-location, memory, valuation, and state-transition remain meaningful after the cessation of the projection regime.