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2026
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19605525 |
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- <p class="p1">Mind and subjecthood are often treated as too private, too diuse, or too philo-</p> <p class="p1">sophically contested to admit quantitative science. We argue that this view is no</p> <p class="p1">longer tenable. Building on the Natural Criticality Hypothesis (NCH), we propose a</p> <p class="p1">falsiable framework in which mind is formalized as the temporally structured orga-</p> <p class="p1">nization of cognition and subjecthood as the dynamically maintained self-boundary</p> <p class="p1">of that temporally organized system.</p> <p class="p1">In this framework, subjective time is dened as τ(t) = 1/r(t), where cognitive</p> <p class="p1">rate r(t) depends on measurable dynamical factors including glial gain, interocep-</p> <p class="p1">tive precision, mnemonic coherence, and boundary signaling. Self-boundary is de-</p> <p class="p1">ned as B(t), a bounded and relationally responsive function integrating temporally</p> <p class="p1">weighted memory and relational resonance. We argue that three developments make</p> <p class="p1">this framework scientically viable: cortical and cortico-subcortical dynamics are</p> <p class="p1">increasingly measurable, memory weight can be quantied through hippocampal-</p> <p class="p1">neocortical consolidation across time, and subjective time has identiable neural</p> <p class="p1">correlates in behavioral and neurophysiological data.</p> <p class="p1">The central claim of the paper is that mind and subjecthood are distinct but</p> <p class="p1">non-separable dynamical structures. Mind is the bounded temporal condition of</p> <p class="p1">cognition; subjecthood is the bounded self-boundary that emerges within that con-</p> <p class="p1">dition. Their dependence is expressed by ∂B/∂τ ̸= 0, implying that changes in sub-</p> <p class="p1">jective temporal organization should produce measurable changes in self-boundary</p> <p class="p1">dynamics. This renders the relation between mind and subjecthood empirically</p> <p class="p1">testable rather than merely metaphysical.</p> <p class="p1">The contribution of the present framework is not to solve the philosophical</p> <p class="p1">problem of mind, but to reformulate it. By dening explicit variables, dependencies,</p> <p class="p1">and failure conditions, it establishes mind and subjecthood as falsiable scientic</p> <p class="p1">objects.</p>