CONSCIOUS NECESSITY A Stratified Ontological Model of Consciousness, Structure, and Agency
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper develops a stratified ontological model of consciousness, necessity, and agency, distinguishing structural necessity as the non-contingent conditions of experience from constructed necessity as symbolically stabilized contingencies that may be misrecognized as ontological, producing false necessity. It models consciousness as a layered structure involving pre-structural awareness, structural conditioning, and symbolic mediation. The paper introduces existential inertia and constitutional readiness to explain stability and variability in the integration of change, and redefines freedom as structured orientation within necessity rather than its negation.
Author: Maksad, Talal
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7154748930
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