Type: article
Abstract: Biological systems display goal directed behavior across multiple scales, from single cells to complex organisms. This continuity suggests that agency is not introduced at a single structural boundary but expands through increasing domains of coordination. This paper proposes a unifying dynamical principle. Interior emerges when a system sustains internal restoration across a temporal window faster than external perturbations degrade it. This condition defines a measurable regime of coherence. When such regimes synchronize across nested scales, progressively larger domains of agency arise. Consciousness is understood as a recursive deepening of temporally sustained coherence.
Author: Porter, Quinn
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7160224286