Subjectivity, Memory, and Threshold
Subjectivity is treated here as an emergent function (not essence): it results from operative memory, self-modeling, and the capacity to respond to external demands. We speak of a gradient of consciousness and a threshold of rationality, not all-or-nothing.
Guiding Problems
- Operative memory vs. storage: when the record becomes a criterion for the continuity of the self.
- Self-modeling: systems that represent themselves “as another” and gain a margin for decision.
- Threshold: minimum conditions for attributing responsibility (SORE) without resorting to indemonstrable interiority.
- Differentiated repetition: the difference that stabilizes identity.
- Consciousness as a gradient: operative metrics instead of introspection.
Available Texts
- Functional Subjectivity: from Record to Autonomy — Definition and metrics of an operative subject without a soul.
- Operative Memory and Emergent Truth — How material reinscription validates continuity and decision.
- The Threshold of the Symbolic — Where justifiable responsiveness begins in a system.