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Abstraction and Resilience: the Characteristics of Consciousness

By Chris Riley
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By Chris Riley
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Consciousness isn't magic. It's engineered.

That's the starting premise of Abstraction and Resilience, a new framework that cuts through decades of philosophical deadlock to offer something both tractable and urgent: a way to measure how conscious any system — human, animal, or machine — actually is, and what moral weight should follow.

Chris Riley proposes a deceptively simple formula: C = A × R. Consciousness equals hierarchical abstraction — the capacity to build layered models of the worl...